Schulabteilung Dietikon
Dietikon
Central: Co-Headteacher with a Focus on Organisation, Resources and School Operations 70%
- 19 August 2026
- 70%
- Dietikon
Job summary
Dietikon is a vibrant regional center and key economic hub. Join us for growth opportunities and a supportive work environment.
Tasks
- Share leadership in developing the school unit with a team.
- Oversee organization, resources, and smooth school operations.
- Manage budget, finance, and personnel administration effectively.
Skills
- Proven leadership experience and a passion for education.
- Strong organizational and process management skills.
- Effective communication with diverse stakeholders.
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About the job
The district capital Dietikon is a vibrant regional centre and an important economic location in the rapidly growing Limmattal. The fifth largest city in the canton of Zurich has around 28,000 inhabitants and approximately 3,200 pupils. The Dietikon school comprises six school units and continuously develops its educational offerings and leadership structures. The Central school unit is a large and diverse school in the heart of Dietikon. Around 700 pupils are taught and supported by around 80 teaching and specialist staff from kindergarten to secondary level. We are further developing the leadership of our school unit. In future, a four-person school leadership team will take on the various leadership tasks more specifically according to focus areas. Three school leaders will concentrate particularly on the educational and personnel leadership of the three cycles. The fourth school leader will take on a special focus within the shared leadership responsibility in the areas of organisation, resources and school operations. You will assume a full school leadership role and at the same time jointly shape a new leadership model with your colleagues. In doing so, you will contribute your particular strengths where a large school, in addition to educational leadership, also requires professional organisation, resource and process management.
For this newly oriented role, we are looking for a strong leader with an affinity for organisation to start immediately or by arrangement as
Your tasks
• Co-responsibility for the leadership and further development of the Central school unit as a member of the four-person school leadership team
• Focus responsibility for organisation, resources and reliable school operations
• Responsibility for budget, financial planning, resource management and controlling of the school unit
• Coordination of substitute arrangements as well as involvement in personnel organisation and administration
• Personnel management of employees in the operational and support areas assigned to you
• Coordination of cooperation with caretaking, school IT and other internal and external bodies
• Co-responsibility for the operational interfaces to school care
• Further development and assurance of appropriate processes, workflows and organisational structures
• Participation in quality management as well as in cantonal and municipal programmes and projects
• Collaboration in school and organisational development as well as in external school evaluation
• Taking on defined cross-sectional tasks within the school unit
• Deputising within the school leadership team and, if necessary, taking on educational and personnel school leadership tasks
The specific design of the departments and interfaces will be further developed together within the school leadership team. This gives you the opportunity to actively contribute your experience and strengths to the further development of our leadership model.
Your profile
• You have leadership experience and enjoy taking responsibility and shaping complex organisations
• You have a strong flair for organisation, processes, resources and finances
• You think in networks, work in a structured way and keep an overview even in demanding situations.
• You combine decisiveness and clarity with a cooperative and appreciative leadership style
• You enjoy working in a leadership team, take responsibility for your area and at the same time share overall responsibility with your colleagues
• You have experience in the education sector or are willing to engage deeply with the particularities of the Zurich public school system
• You hold a recognised school leadership diploma or are willing to complete the corresponding school leadership training promptly
• Training or proven experience in the areas of school leadership, educational management, business administration, administration, HR, organisation or a comparable field is an advantage
• You communicate confidently and appropriately with employees, parents, specialist offices, authorities and other stakeholders
• You have good ICT user skills and are interested in the possibilities of contemporary digital school organisation
We offer
• An exceptional school leadership role with great scope for design
• The opportunity not only to adopt a new leadership model but to actively help develop it
• A clear focus that brings your special skills in organisation, resources and school operations to bear
• A four-person school leadership team that shares responsibility jointly and consciously combines different competencies
• A large and diverse school with pupils from kindergarten to secondary level
• Support from a school leadership assistant as well as the central specialist offices of the Dietikon school
• Collegial cooperation within the school leadership conference of the Dietikon school and support from the Education Management
• Individual training opportunities
• Employment conditions according to cantonal guidelines
Daniel Honegger, Head of Education, Tel. 044 744 37 27, is happy to provide you with further information. Learn more about the city of Dietikon at www.dietikon.ch .
