Social Delegate

Your main tasks: Job description

• Welcome, inform, guide and support people facing social or financial difficulties.
• Facilitate access to communal, cantonal and regional social aid and benefits.
• Identify the needs of seniors and develop actions to support their remaining at home, social connection and prevention of isolation.
• Organise and coordinate prevention, information and awareness-raising actions among the population.
• Ensure the social and administrative follow-up of emergency housing beneficiaries.
• Participate in eviction prevention and coordinate interventions with partners (Justice of the Peace, property managers, owners, social services and institutions).
• Design, lead and evaluate projects related to communal social policy.
• Develop and maintain a network of partners and facilitate working groups or coordination meetings.

Your background:

• Bachelor of Science in Social Work or equivalent training.
• Proven experience in the social field, ideally with vulnerable groups.
• Experience in project management and network facilitation.
• Additional training in social policy, project management or mediation: an asset.
• Trainer practitioner training: an asset.

Your skills:

• Excellent command of French, both spoken and written.
• Good writing skills and administrative ease.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Good knowledge of the Vaud socio-institutional network and issues related to precariousness, ageing and housing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and listening ability.
• Analytical mind, organisational skills and ability to manage complex situations.
• Ability to work in a network, to unite partners and to handle several files simultaneously.
• Autonomy, discretion, collaborative spirit and sense of public service.

Start date: immediately or to be agreed.

Only applications accompanied by the required documents below will be considered in the recruitment process.

Required documents: cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas, work certificates and salary expectations

Application deadline: 23 August 2026 only via the jobup platform

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