Head of Vocational Training 100%

Head of Vocational Training 100%

What awaits you:

• Responsibility for the strategic, organizational, and professional further development of vocational training
• You actively shape the future orientation of vocational training and drive necessary organizational and structural developments forward.
• As a leader of a dedicated core team, you simultaneously strengthen the cross-professional community of vocational trainers.
• You specifically maintain and further develop a broad network within and outside the organization. In a demanding stakeholder environment, you moderate different interests, create commitment, and develop sustainable solutions.
• You understand and lead vocational training as a total system. In doing so, you achieve impact far beyond your direct leadership responsibility and create connections between people, organizational units, and external partners.

What you bring with you:

• Higher education as well as sound practical experience in vocational training and very good knowledge of the Swiss vocational training system from your own leadership experience
• Several years of experience in the successful leadership and further development of larger teams or complex organizational units, as well as enjoyment in motivating people, promoting talents, and creating a common identity
• Pronounced strategic and conceptual thinking as well as the ability to recognize development potential at an early stage and to derive and implement concrete measures from it
• Experience in complex matrix organizations and a good sense for bringing different interests together and developing sustainable solutions
• Very good networking in the Swiss vocational training landscape and resilient relationships with schools, associations, authorities, and other relevant actors
• Pronounced communication and moderation skills as well as a confident appearance, combined with competence, authenticity, and trustworthiness
• Initiative, pronounced ability to cooperate, and a pragmatic hands-on mentality
• Enthusiasm for the development of young people and the ambition to create framework conditions in which learners can unfold their potential and start their professional lives with excellent training

If you have the corresponding experience, then send us your application via email to recruitment@hrzentrum.ch