Head of Social Assistance (80% - 100%)

Burgdorf, the modern city in Emmental

Burgdorf is an urban, thriving center in the green with over 17,000 residents and a large catchment area. The Social Directorate provides services in child and adult protection and social assistance, in foundation supervision, as well as migration and aging specialist services for the city of Burgdorf and the neighboring municipalities of Hasle b. Burgdorf, Oberburg, and Ersigen.

We are looking for a

Head of Social Assistance (80% - 100%) starting July 1, 2026, or by agreement.

Your Tasks

• Organizational and professional leadership of the social assistance department

• Personnel responsibility for the social assistance department with approximately 15 social workers and personnel management of the directly subordinate team leaders

• Ensuring the implementation of social assistance in accordance with applicable law and decisions of the social commission

• Development of internal guidelines as a member of the management of the Social Directorate

• Ensuring cross-departmental internal collaboration with the areas of child and adult protection, support (administration, finance), and legal services

• Responsibility for quality assurance and controlling

• Collaboration and networking with various stakeholders and partner organizations

• Participation in reporting to municipal, cantonal, and federal institutions

• Participation in responding to political initiatives and consultations

• Independent case work amounting to 20 - 40 percent of the position

Your Profile

You ideally have a Master's degree in Social Work or Law or are willing to undertake relevant further training. You have solid expertise in the areas of social assistance, social insurance, and law, and possess proven professional and leadership experience. Your analytical and strategic thinking helps you in addressing conceptual tasks. With your experience in project work, you bring ideal prerequisites for contributing to the further development of the Social Directorate. A high level of social and advisory competence characterizes you. We are looking for a committed individual who enjoys contributing to professional social work in a public service. Networking thinking and action within and outside the Social Directorate are a matter of course for you. You have very good IT user skills.

Your Perspectives

We offer you an interesting task in a varied and demanding work environment with room for design. Mutual support is as natural as short paths for decisions. Continuous training and further education are supported. Modern working tools and motivated colleagues await you. Working hours are based on the annual working time model. With good public transport connections, employee-friendly employment conditions, and its central function, the city of Burgdorf is an attractive employer. As a member of the management, you can significantly shape the further development of the Social Directorate. Home office is possible to a limited extent.

Contact Your questions will be answered by Daniel Frei, Head of the Social Directorate at telephone number 034 429 92 45 or by email: [email protected].

Please submit your application via our online portal.

We look forward to meeting you.