Secretary General

Secretary General Founded in 1951, the Université Populaire de Lausanne (UPL) celebrates, in 2026, 75 years of transmitting and sharing knowledge. Each year, no fewer than 400 courses in more than 15 themes are offered to nearly 2’700. The UPL places accessibility to knowledge and culture at the heart of its action, without distinction of social status, age, level of education, or economic situation. It is committed to making culture and knowledge accessible and offering everyone the possibility to fully develop their potential throughout life. In order to ensure the deployment and coordination of its activities and to accompany it in its development, the Université populaire de Lausanne (UPL) is looking for a secretary general (80-100%) Missions and responsibilities Directly reporting to the Board of Directors through its President, the Secretary General assumes operational responsibility for all UPL activities. He/she is in charge of implementing the decisions and orientations of the Board of Directors. He/she guarantees the quality of services and ensures smooth internal functioning and coordination. He/she acts as the interlocutor for external partners. The tasks and responsibilities consist notably of: Assuming the operational direction of the UPL: ensuring the deployment and monitoring of decisions and projects of the Board of Directors and the development strategy; ensuring the steering and management system; assuming the secretariat of the UPL bodies. Assuming hierarchical responsibility for the permanent team: directing the permanent team and assuming human resources management tasks. Ensuring the deployment of UPL services: steering the establishment of the offer of training, visits, and excursions and their deployment, in connection with the Pedagogical Commission; deciding on the opening of courses; ensuring the production of the course catalogue; assuming hierarchical responsibility for and ensuring the resulting administrative management. Ensuring financial and accounting management: preparing budgets; ensuring proper maintenance of the accounting and the closing of accounts, in collaboration with the fiduciary company; ensuring documentation and archiving. Ensuring tasks in the field of quality: steering the quality management system; ensuring its implementation. Ensuring the communication and promotion of the UPL and its services: ensuring the establishment and updating of the communication strategy and the communication plan; ensuring the visibility and promotion of courses as well as the organization of events to promote UPL activities; assuming contact with the media; ensuring internal communication. Ensuring relations with external partners: ensuring relations with established partners; developing the partnership network. Competencies Proven aptitude for organization, planning, and management Sense of responsibility, priority management, and complex situations Capacity for initiative, versatility, flexibility Capacity to lead a team, leadership Ease in working collaboratively Interpersonal skills, communication skills, and institutional representation skills Excellent command of French (easy expression and writing), command of English and, as much as possible, German Excellent command of MS Office suite IT tools Command of CMS, databases, social networks; canva, InDesign a plus jpid9917188jm jpit0832jm jpiy26jm