Stabsleitung Global Affairs (Head of Operations Global Affairs) (m/w/d) — Universität Zürich
- Location
- Zürich (Kollegiengebäude 2)
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 27 days ago
Role overview
As the largest university in Switzerland, the University of Zurich offers a large number of attractive positions in various disciplines and professional fields.
With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional profiles for learners, the university offers an inspiring working environment in cutting-edge research and education.
Use your talent and skills with us.
- As the largest university in Switzerland, the University of Zurich offers a large number of attractive positions in various disciplines and professional fields.
- With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional profiles for learners, the university offers an inspiring working environment in cutting-edge research and education.
- In this newly created function, you support the further development of the management, prioritization and coordination processes of Global Affairs.
- They support department management in aligning mandates, projects and resources with the priorities set and ensuring their coordinated and effective implementation.
- We offer: Our employees benefit from diverse and attractive offers.
Main responsibilities
- In this newly created function, you support the further development of the management, prioritization and coordination processes of Global Affairs.
- They support department management in aligning mandates, projects and resources with the priorities set and ensuring their coordinated and effective implementation.
- The function creates transparency about ongoing activities, supports prioritization decisions and ensures reliable working and implementation standards within the department. In particular, its tasks include:
- Ensuring an overview of mandates, projects, interfaces and resource needs within the department
- Preparation of the basis for decision-making on priorities, capacities and use of resources in close coordination with the management and deputy management of Global Affairs
- Coordination of the project pool along the defined priorities and available capacities
- Establishment, further development and anchoring of standards for planning, reporting, follow-up and project implementation
- Co-responsibility for the management of selected operational and project-related areas, including line responsibility for defined part of the departmental structure
- Co-responsibility for the further development of leadership routines, coordination mechanisms and resource management within Global Affairs
What the company offers
- We offer: Our employees benefit from diverse and attractive offers.
Company and context
- Supporting the effective implementation of recurring activities, project work and cross-cutting initiatives in a complex and dynamic organisational environment Requirements We are looking for an experienced professional with strong judgment, very good organizational skills and a high degree of security in dealing with complex and dynamic work contexts.
- They also keep an overview of many parallel topics and can safely switch between strategic issues, coordination tasks and operational implementation.
- It also requires a structured and reliable way of working and the ability to provide clarity on where priorities, processes and expectations must evolve and be coordinated across a broad portfolio. Ideally, bring with you:
- several years of professional experience in a function as Head of Operations / Staff Management, Operations Lead, in program management, in organizational development or in a comparable management-related support or control function
- In-depth experience in portfolio overview, prioritization, resource management and coordination of several parallel worklines
- Strong competences in project, process and implementation management, combined with the ability to introduce and sustainably anchor practical standards and routines
- Experience in line design and safety in dealing with complexity, changing requirements and organizational change
- a very good judgment and sense of timing, especially with regard to the question of which topics can be dealt with directly and where voting is required
- very good knowledge of English and the ability to professionally interact with internal and external stakeholders at different levels
- ideally experience in higher education, in the public sector or in similarly complex institutional contexts Personally, you convince with pragmatism, assertiveness, resilience and high reliability.
Additional details
- Tasks: In this newly created function, you support the further development of the management, prioritization and coordination processes of Global Affairs.
- The function creates transparency about ongoing activities, supports prioritization decisions and ensures reliable working and implementation standards within the department. In particular, its tasks include:
- It also requires a structured and reliable way of working and the ability to provide clarity on where priorities, processes and expectations must evolve and be coordinated across a broad portfolio. Ideally, bring with you:
Notes and original content
- The function creates transparency about ongoing activities, supports prioritization decisions and ensures reliable working and implementation standards within the department.
- In particular, its tasks include:
- It also requires a structured and reliable way of working and the ability to provide clarity on where priorities, processes and expectations must evolve and be coordinated across a broad portfolio.
- Ideally, bring with you:
Questions about this listing
What salary does Universität Zürich offer for this role?
Universität Zürich lists CHF 101'500 - 154'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich (Kollegiengebäude 2). This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Universität Zürich offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Universität Zürich during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
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