legal secretary with a focus on prevention of sexual harassment 70%

legal secretary with a focus on prevention of sexual harassment 70% #

Are you looking for a challenge in the environment of administration and politics with an employer featuring topics as diverse as life? Do you want to make a difference and make a social contribution to promoting equality? Then you have come to the right place!

The Gender Equality Office of the Canton of Zürich has the statutory mandate to ensure the implementation of the Gender Equality Act in the areas of protection against discrimination, equal pay, and the compatibility of professional and private life, and is the first point of contact and competence center for questions regarding equality in the Canton of Zürich.

To complement our team, we are looking for, as of 1 January 2027 or by arrangement, limited to two years,

a:n legal secretary (70 %) with a focus on prevention of sexual harassment.

You will convey legal and technical fundamentals regarding the prevention and intervention of sexual harassment in a target-group-oriented manner and support the sustainable anchoring of the measures in the cantonal administration.

Your future tasks ###

• You plan and coordinate the administration-wide roll-out. Depending on experience and profile, you will lead the overall project or defined sub-projects and be responsible for the respective milestones
• You further develop a target-group-oriented training and mediation concept, design formats for different administrative levels, including train-the-trainer offers for multipliers, and create learning and working materials. You will conduct selected formats yourself
• You convey the legal and technical fundamentals in a manner appropriate to the addressees, particularly regarding the Gender Equality Act, labor and public personnel law, as well as the prevention and intervention of sexual harassment
• You transfer the standards, processes, and instruments developed in the pilot project to different administrative units and develop them further
• You qualify, advise, and accompany managers, HR professionals, and internal contact points in the introduction and anchoring of the measures, working closely with the Personnel Office and other specialists in the process
• You evaluate the implementation and prepare fundamentals for monitoring and permanent anchoring

How you convince us ###

• You have a completed degree in law and several years of professional experience
• You bring experience in adult education as well as in the conception of target-group-oriented education and training offers and can translate complex content understandably into training materials and practical aids. Experience with train-the-trainer approaches is an advantage
• You have sound knowledge of gender equality law as well as knowledge of labor or public personnel law. You are familiar with the prevention and intervention of sexual harassment or will quickly familiarize yourself with it
• You communicate and moderate confidently at different hierarchical levels and develop practical solutions together with those involved
• You have experience in the planning and coordination of demanding projects; experience in project or sub-project management is an advantage
• You work independently, structured, and reliably, value teamwork, and are familiar with complex organizations; administrative experience is an advantage

How we convince you ###

• A meaningful and professionally demanding task with high social and organizational relevance
• A clear mandate with versatile design and impact opportunities
• A workplace in the immediate vicinity of Zürich Hauptbahnhof
• Attractive employment conditions according to cantonal guidelines
• Cooperation in a small, interdisciplinary team and with central actors of the cantonal administration

What are you waiting for? ###

We look forward to your online application. Questions about the advertised position can be answered by Susanne Nef, Head of the Gender Equality Office (+41 43 259 54 53, susanne.nef@ji.zh.ch).
For questions about the recruitment process, the HR Beratung & Services team (043 259 25 66, hr_ji@ji.zh.ch) is happy to assist you.