Secretary General

• 04 August 2026 • 80 - 100% • Indefinite duration • German (Fluent), English (Fluent), French (Native language) • Escaliers du Marché 2, 1003 Lausanne • Log in to see the salary estimate from jobup.ch Founded in 1951, l-Université Populaire de Lausanne (UPL) celebrates, in 2026, 75 years of transmission and sharing of knowledge. Each year, no fewer than 400 courses in more than 15 themes are offered to nearly 2-700 participants. L-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 strives to make culture and knowledge accessible and to offer everyone the possibility to fully develop their potential throughout life. In order to ensure the deployment and coordination of its activities and to support it in its development, l-Université populaire de Lausanne (UPL) is looking for a secretary general (80-100%) ## Missions and responsibilities Directly reporting to the Executive Committee 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 Executive Committee. He/she guarantees the quality of services and ensures proper internal functioning and coordination. He/she acts as the interlocutor for external partners. Tasks and responsibilities notably consist of: • Assuming the operational management of l-UPL: ensuring the deployment and follow-up of decisions and projects of the Executive Committee and the development strategy; ensuring the steering and management system; assuming the secretariat of UPL organs. • Assuming hierarchical responsibility for the permanent team: leading the permanent team and assuming human resources management tasks. • Ensuring the deployment of UPL services: steering the establishment of the offering 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 trainers and ensuring the resulting administrative management. • Ensuring financial and accounting management: preparing budgets; ensuring proper bookkeeping and the closing of accounts, in collaboration with the fiduciary company; ensuring documentation and archiving. • Ensuring tasks in the quality field: steering the quality management system; ensuring its implementation. • Ensuring the communication and promotion of l-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. Skills • Proven ability in organization, planning and management • Sense of responsibility, priority management and complex situations • Ability for initiative, versatility, flexibility • Ability to lead a team, leadership • Ease in working collaboratively • Interpersonal skills, communication 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 is a plus