Head of Security, Resilience and Infrastructure

Start date:

immediately or by arrangement

Work location:

Bern

The Amt für Justizvollzug (AJV) of the Canton of Bern faces significant structural, technical, and organizational changes in the coming years. At the same time, requirements for security, resilience, crisis prevention, and the availability of increasingly networked security-relevant systems are rising. With the new Security, Resilience and Infrastructure (SRI) area, we are creating a common professional and organizational framework to manage these topics integrally across the entire AJV.

As Head of SRI, you will significantly shape the establishment of the new area and bear overall responsibility for professional, organizational, and personnel leadership. You will combine strategic management with high practical proximity and ensure that the competencies from Security & Safety, IT security and security systems, event and crisis management, Business Continuity and risk management, as well as strategic infrastructure planning and Facility Management, interact effectively. At the same time, you will undertake the deputy function of the Department Management Services & Entwicklung leadership.

Your tasks

• Build up and lead the SRI area professionally, personally, and organizationally, prioritize its tasks, and coordinate the associated specialist departments.
• Manage the integral further development of security, resilience, and infrastructure in the AJV and establish common standards, methods, and processes.
• Advise and support the executive management, directorates, and other managers of the AJV on complex security, technical, resilience, and infrastructural issues.
• Combine central specialist leadership with the decentralized operational responsibility of the execution facilities and ensure effective cooperation with the local specialist managers.
• Assess strategic and security-critical projects, prioritize their processing based on risk, and ensure the necessary testing, decision-making, and approval processes.
• Coordinate cooperation with cantonal partner offices, especially the Amt für Grundstücke und Gebäude and the cantonal IT, as well as with specialist planners, suppliers, and other external partners.
• Represent the area towards the executive management, the organizational units, and external partner offices and ensure target-group-oriented reporting.

Your profile

You bring in-depth knowledge in Facility Management, in strategic infrastructure planning, and/or in user and operator representation for demanding construction and infrastructure projects. Additionally, you have an affinity for IT questions. You understand the connections between operational processes, building technology, security, maintainability, availability, emergency operation, as well as life cycle and follow-up costs, and can effectively incorporate these requirements into planning and construction processes. Furthermore, you bring the following skills and experiences:

• Tertiary degree in a field relevant to the function, such as engineering, computer science, security technology, Facility Management, real estate management, business administration, or a comparable specialization.
• Several years of leadership and professional experience in a technically, infrastructurally, or security-related demanding environment.
• Proven specialist competence in the area of Facility Management and infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of the connections between security, IT, technology, infrastructure, operations, risks, and organizational resilience.
• Experience in managing complex projects, processes, or specialist organizations as well as in dealing with different internal and external stakeholders.
• Very good strategic and conceptual skills combined with a pragmatic and implementation-oriented way of working.
• Leadership personality with strong communication and advisory competence, decision-making ability, assertiveness, and the ability to bring different specialist disciplines together toward a common vision.
• Ability to structure complex issues, set priorities based on risk, and prepare decisions in a target-group-oriented manner for governing bodies.
• Interest in the special tasks and framework conditions of the penal system; experience in public administration or in a security-critical organization is an advantage.

We offer you

A demanding leadership and design task with a large scope of influence in an extraordinary environment. You will receive the opportunity to build up a newly oriented area and significantly help shape the future development of security, resilience, security technology, and infrastructure of the penal system in the Canton of Bern.

Contact

For questions, Pascal Ludin, deputy head of office and Head of MSE, +41 31 636 84 11, is at your disposal. We look forward to receiving your dossier by November 4, 2026. Since you will also hold the deputy position for the Head of MSE, the Head of AJV, Romilda Stämpfli, will actively participate in the recruitment process.

About the Amt für Justizvollzug

The Amt für Justizvollzug (AJV) is responsible for the open and closed penal and measures execution for adults and juveniles within the Sicherheitsdirektion of the Canton of Bern (SID) with around 1000 employees. To fulfill this task, the office has at its disposal four concordat penal institutions, four regional prisons, the monitoring station at the Inselspital, the detention management center, as well as the probation and execution services.

https://www.ajv.sid.be.ch/de/start.html