Head of Social Services

Head of Social Services ##

Your new role

In this demanding function, you bear overall responsibility for the strategic, personnel, and financial leadership of the Social Services with around 150 employees. Together with your leadership team, you will continuously develop the organization and its services and create the prerequisites so that people in challenging life situations are supported reliably, professionally, and effectively.

This position is for you if

• You have a university degree in Social Work, Law, Business Administration, or a comparable qualification.
• You bring several years of leadership experience and successfully lead, promote, and develop employees and managers.
• You live an appreciative and binding leadership culture, leading with clarity and empathy and creating trust.
• You possess sound knowledge in the social sector and can manage a complex service area technically, organizationally, and economically.
• You actively shape the strategic further development of an organization and implement change processes with foresight and persuasiveness.
• You navigate confidently in a political environment, think in networks, and win different stakeholders over for common solutions.

Your department

The Social Services make an important contribution to social cohesion in our city. They support people in different life situations and fulfill versatile legal tasks, particularly in the areas of social assistance including social and professional integration, the management of child and adult protection mandates including the support of private trustees, child support, social-pedagogical family support, as well as assisted living. In doing so, effective, professional support oriented towards the needs of the population, as well as high service quality, are at the center of their actions.

Our corporate culture

We are a performance-oriented department and live an appreciative working atmosphere characterized by mutual trust, respect, and loyalty. We challenge and promote our employees based on their individual abilities and resources. We grant employees the greatest possible freedom of action within the framework of their tasks. Equal opportunity is a high priority for us, and our framework conditions support the compatibility of work and other areas of life.

What we offer

With us, you can expect a challenging, meaningful leadership task with social impact and a versatile, professional working environment. You will work together with dedicated employees and managers and benefit from short paths as well as good networking within the city administration and with numerous external specialist offices and institutions. We offer you contemporary working conditions, flexible working time models including home office, and diverse opportunities for personal and professional development. Look forward to a central workplace in the middle of the city of St.Gallen.

Further information

Your questions about the position will be gladly answered by Sarah Gerteis, Chief of Staff Directorate Social Affairs and Security, telephone 071 224 56 37.
Please submit your complete application to us exclusively online.

We value diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.

Stadt St.Gallen, Personaldienste, Rathaus, 9001 St.Gallen, www.stadt.sg.ch