Head of Archaeology & Monument Preservation

Permanent position

Amt für Städtebau

For the Archaeology & Monument Preservation department, we are looking for an engaged, strategically acting leader due to the retirement of the current job holder as of 1 May 2027 or by arrangement.

Tasks

• As a member of the executive management, you will participate in the development of goals and strategies of the Amt für Städtebau and further develop the organization.
• As Head of Department, you bear overall responsibility for the professional, personnel, and financial leadership and further development of the Archaeology & Monument Preservation department with five specialist areas, translating the executive management goals into your department.
• You identify needs for innovation, optimize interfaces, develop concepts, and implement change processes.
• You lead, promote, and develop your management team and thus control goal achievement, topic development, and resource planning.
• You network the topics of your department with topics of other departments in the office and topics of other service departments in the city administration.
• You undertake representation and public relations tasks and maintain contact with the specialist world, universities, and the canton.
• You represent the Amt für Städtebau in steering committees of projects with important monument preservation issues.
• You are responsible for the Denkmalpflegekommission.

Profile

• University degree in the disciplines of architecture, monument preservation, archaeology, or art history, preferably supplemented with postgraduate studies in one of the above-mentioned disciplines
• Several years of professional experience as well as proven knowledge and sound judgment in the disciplines of monument preservation and archaeology
• Several years of leadership and management experience, ideally with additional training (postgraduate studies, leadership training)
• In-depth knowledge of construction and planning law
• Profound strategy development and project management experience in a public administration or in architectural offices
• High motivation and a pronounced willingness to commit to the built heritage in a growing city within the tension between politics and administration
• Strategic, interdisciplinary, networked, conceptual, and future-oriented thinking and acting
• High presentation competence, mediation, and communication skills internally and externally
• Enthusiasm, solution orientation, personal responsibility, resilience, and teamwork

We offer

A demanding and versatile activity awaits you. We value good cooperation: trust and the recognition of good performance are important to us. We create an environment for new ideas and independent work. Attractive employment and further training conditions as well as a centrally located workplace near the main station are further advantages. With the label «Familie UND Beruf», we promote the compatibility of family and career as well as equal opportunities for women and men.

About us

We are committed to Zurich's diverse structural future.

The city of Zurich is an attractive city that is changing. The history of the city is always the basis in this process and requires continuous research and mediation. The Amt für Städtebau manages and supports the structural change in the city, as employees from spatial and area development, architecture, monument preservation, and archaeology ensure that existing qualities of centuries-old history are preserved and maintained.

Interested?

We look forward to your complete online application. For further information, please contact: Stefan Gasser, Bereichsleiter Archäologie & Denkmalpflege, Tel.: .

Information about the Amt für Städtebau can be found at:

Reference No.: 52148

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