Group Leader/Day Care 70 - 80% - spread over 4 - 5 weekdays
Key information
- Publication date:30 July 2025
- Workload:70 – 80%
- Place of work:St.Gallen
Job summary
Join a vibrant team in St.Gallen nurturing a diverse group of kids! Enjoy a supportive environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Lead a multicultural group of children aged 4-13 in daily activities.
- Collaborate with parents to ensure optimal care and support.
- Embrace teamwork and reflective practice in a dynamic setting.
Skills
- Degree in Social Work or Early Childhood Education required.
- Experience and passion for working with children and their environments.
- Strong teamwork skills and a solution-oriented approach.
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Your new role
You will take on the main responsibility for a multicultural group of children aged between 4 and 13 years and accompany them in their daily and leisure activities. Together with a dedicated team, you will ensure, in collaboration with parents or guardians, the best possible support, care, and guidance for the children. The social pedagogical work is based on our framework concept and quality guidelines.
We look forward to your application if you
- have a tertiary qualification in social work or childhood education.
- have experience and joy in dynamic and lively work with children and their life worlds and environments.
- prefer to work developmentally oriented and are characterized by a benevolent and solution-oriented attitude.
- value teamwork and consider reflective and conceptual work in a team as part of your skills.
- would like to accompany young people in their training and bring relevant experience.
- welcome regulated weekly working hours with your qualification in social or childhood education (HF, FH degree).
- are motivated by challenges and like to take on responsibility.
Good reasons to work for the city of St.Gallen:
Our operation
At 15 locations, we care for around 2000 school children from the municipal primary schools and kindergartens of the respective neighborhoods. At five other locations, we run lunch programs for young people from the municipal upper secondary schools.
Our corporate culture
We value good collaboration, clear communication, and treat each other with respect. We live equality of opportunity and support the compatibility of work and private life.
This is what we offer
With us, you can expect a varied working environment with a high degree of self-responsibility and the opportunity for co-design. You benefit from a generous vacation policy, families receive a municipal family allowance, and fathers enjoy a 20-day paternity leave. Thanks to a diverse training program, you can develop personally and professionally.
Our selection process
Your questions about the position and the selection process will be gladly answered by Peter Lutz, site manager of day care Schönenwegen, phone 071 499 25 44. Have we piqued your interest? Then please submit your complete application exclusively electronically. More information about the day care of the city of St.Gallen can be found at www.betreuung.stadt.sg.ch.
We appreciate diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.