Head of Communications — Confederazione Svizzera

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Put to the Point

You combine strategic judgment with leadership and convincing communication. At the NDB, you advise top management, manage challenging communications businesses and are responsible for internal and external communication. You provide employee orientation and convey the order and services of the service in an understandable, addressable and precise manner. You lead the Communications Section and report to the Head of the Staff/Control department in the Governance Directorate. The department brings together the communications, political affairs and national and international relations sections. With your work, you strengthen the leadership and action capacity of the NDB and the impact of its intelligence services.

• Entry date: by agreement
• Type of employment: perpetual
• Reference No: JRQ$540-21004

You can make this contribution

• Lead the Communications Section in terms of personnel, professional, organisational and financial resources; further develop the communication team and set goals, priorities and resource use.
• further develop and implement the communication strategy of the NDB; plan internal and external communication in a forward-looking manner, coordinate with departmental departments and communications and review their impact.
• Responsible for and further develop internal communication
• Provide employees with orientation about the goals, decisions and developments of the NDB and promote dialogue between management and employees.
• Advise the Director, senior management and Head of Staff/Control on strategic communications issues
• Assess complex issues and develop decisive variants and recommendations.
• Steer demanding communications businesses independently and ensure their quality; in the management team of the department staff/control work bindingly with the other section managements and contribute to the implementation of the goals and the further development of the department.
• Responsible for media work and communication at special events, acting as media spokesperson and moderating media conferences; supporting the leadership in public appearances.

This makes you unique

• University degree at master’s level or equivalent qualification as well as many years of experience in strategic, security policy and operational communication in a politically or institutionally demanding environment.
• proven leadership experience, high social skills and the ability to provide guidance, to promote and empower employees and to demand results bindingly
• Experience in the design of organizational changes and in binding cooperation in the management team.
• Strong strategic and political-institutional judgement, very good knowledge of the Swiss media system and political processes as well as proven experience in advising top management levels.
• Broad communication profile with in-depth experience in internal and external communication, media relations and crisis communication; excellent conceptual and editorial skills, secure appearance and cross-divisional control.
• Safe and level-appropriate occurrence in any situation, even under pressure.
• Swiss citizenship and impeccable reputation; excellent ability to express one official language, very good active knowledge of a second and passive knowledge of the third official language, and very good knowledge of English.

We offer this

• Working for Switzerland: We are committed to the Swiss success model and work for the benefit of the population.
• Living diversity: Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at work: We support and advise our employees in the field of physical and mental health.

Application questions

Recruitment NDB / SRC / SIC / FIS

Together for the security of Switzerland!

The NDB deals with the early detection and combating of terrorism, violent extremism, espionage, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery technology as well as cyber attacks on critical infrastructures. In addition, the NDB procures important information on security policy and evaluates it. In this way, it makes decisive contributions to the comprehensive threat assessment.

At the federal level, the NDB primarily serves the Federal Council, the departments and the military leadership with its products. It also supports the cantons in maintaining internal security and the law enforcement authorities at federal level.

Women and people from the French and Italian linguistic communities are still underrepresented in our administrative unit. Your applications are therefore particularly welcome.

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