Project Manager Impact Management

Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz is a foundation supported by all cantons and insurers. Initiated by legal mandate, it initiates, coordinates, and evaluates measures to promote health. The foundation's office, with offices in Bern and Lausanne, consists of a team of around 67 people. Further information can be found at .

Project Manager Impact Management

In this role, you will participate in the implementation of the legal evaluation mandate of Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz. The Impact Management team forms the Public Relations unit together with the Communication and Partner Relations teams.

You will assume a project management function with a focus on the conception, tendering, mandating, and support of evaluations, monitorings, and studies. Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz does not usually carry out this work itself, but rather commissions external research, evaluation, and consulting institutes. Your task is to manage several mandates in parallel professionally, organizationally, and administratively, as well as to ensure deadlines, budgets, quality, and the usability of the results.

Important for the function: We are looking for a strong project management personality who maintains an overview of several simultaneously running projects, sets priorities, professionally manages external mandates, and uses digital tools including AI pragmatically and responsibly to support the work.

Your activities

• You design evaluations, monitorings, and studies together with the subject matter experts and clarify purpose, questions, procedure, schedule, budget, and expected products.
• You create rough concepts, specifications, and procurement documents and prepare the mandating of external evaluation, research, and consulting institutes.
• You accompany external mandates during the entire term and ensure that deadlines, budget, quality, communication, and agreed results are met.
• You lead several projects simultaneously and maintain an overview even with different topics, partners, deadlines, and coordination needs.
• You coordinate internal subject matter experts, external contractors, and other stakeholders and ensure clear roles, agreements, and decision-making bases.
• You check interim and final reports, analyses, presentations, and other products from external contractors for quality, clarity, significance, and benefit for Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz.
• You prepare results from evaluations, monitorings, and studies for different target groups together with communication managers and support their use within and outside the foundation.
• You advise subject matter experts on evaluation, impact, and quality issues and contribute to ensuring that projects are planned with an impact orientation from the beginning.
• You use digital tools and AI applications for more efficient structuring, processing, and summarizing of information, as well as to support project management, knowledge management, and communication in impact management.
• You wish and can work 80%. Fewer or more percentage of employment are explicitly not possible and not desired.

Your profile

• Completed university studies at least at Master's level in social, health, political, economic, or related sciences.
• Several years of experience in the project management of complex undertakings, with reference to evaluation, monitoring, research, public health, health promotion, and prevention.
• Proven ability to plan, coordinate, and reliably complete several projects simultaneously.
• Experience in managing external service providers, research institutes, consulting companies, or other mandate holders.
• Good understanding of evaluations and research methodological basics, without the conduct of own research being the focus.
• Very good organizational skills, reliable way of working, high adherence to deadlines, and a strong sense of quality.
• Ability to structure complex content understandably, critically review reports, and prepare results in a way that is appropriate for the target audience.
• Confident handling of digital work instruments; interest and willingness to use AI-supported applications in a sensible, traceable, and data protection-compliant manner.
• Enjoyment of cooperation, coordination, consulting, and communication with internal and external partners.
• Fluent knowledge of German or French as well as very good knowledge of the respective other national language.

We offer

• A versatile project management function at the Sch j4id10421982a j4it1040a j4iy26a