Assistant Continuing Education Department Health 80%

Assistant Continuing Education Department Health 80%

Do you enjoy administering/organizing continuing education – from two-day courses to master's degree programs – and actively collaborating at the interface between program managers, lecturers, and the continuing education management?

Department: Health

Start of work: 01.12.2025 or by arrangement

In the team, you organize and administer the continuing education programs assigned to you. Your role essentially includes:

• Tasks related to planning, preparation, implementation, and evaluation of continuing education
• Organization and administration of assignments for internal and external lecturers
• Creation and management of continuing education supporting courses on the eLearning platform Moodle, as well as documents such as lesson plans, module manuals, guidelines, and performance records
• Various general administrative tasks (e.g., planning meetings, room reservations, correspondence, filing, and archiving)

For this role, we expect a completed commercial training as well as several years of experience in administrative/organizational areas, ideally in an educational or health institution. You are proficient in using MS Office programs and handle new tools or changing processes openly and competently.

Your German is correct and stylistically confident both orally and in writing, and you also have English skills. In hectic times, you remain calm and maintain an overview, and you navigate skillfully and confidently in the tension field of various stakeholders. We are looking for a communicative, service-oriented, and resilient personality who is used to working independently, committed, efficiently, and flexibly as part of a team.

The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, with over 14,000 students and over 11,000 continuing education participants as well as around 3,700 employees, is one of the largest multi-disciplinary universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.

ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams to promote equality, diversity, and innovation.

The Department of Health is the largest and most renowned Swiss education and research center for occupational therapy, midwifery science and reproductive health, nursing, physiotherapy, and health sciences and has been certified as a Friendly Workspace since 2014. The continuing education offers a wide range of courses, modules, CAS, DAS, and MAS programs. The lecturers are experts in their fields and rooted in practice.

We offer university-appropriate working and employment conditions and actively promote the personnel development of our employees and managers. A detailed description of the benefits can be found on the "Working at ZHAW" website. Here are the main points:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Benz

Head of Continuing Education and Physiotherapy Services

Yeliz Sevinc

Recruiting Manager