Hybrid Head of the Committees Secretariat

at Saarländischer Rundfunk

• Job title: Head of the Committees Secretariat
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Saarbrucken, Germany

About the role

• Leiterin / Leiter der Gremiengeschäftsstelle beim Saarländischen Rundfunk, verantwortlich für Führung und Beratung der Gremien. Entwicklung, Koordination und Unterstützung in allen relevanten Gremienfragen.

Responsibilities

• Professional and disciplinary leadership of the staff of the Committees Secretariat in accordance with the Saarländischer Rundfunk leadership principles
• Development of employees
• Promoting and leading by example a positive communication culture
• Motivation and enthusiasm
• Ensuring the team’s ability to lead
• Supporting change processes
• Responsibility for the full range of tasks of the Committees Secretariat
• Supporting and advising the chairs of the Broadcast Council and the Administrative Council on all committee matters, including preparing the chairs’ correspondence
• Preparation and support of elections
• Preparing position papers, including on legal and broadcasting policy matters
• Substantive preparation of meetings of the Broadcast Council and the Administrative Council as well as their committees and the ARD Committee Representatives’ Conference
• Coordinating, preparing and drafting briefing papers for the committees’ decision-making
• Substantive and organizational preparation of committee workshops
• Taking minutes of Administrative Council meetings and various committees of the Broadcast Council
• Coordination of (program) complaints

Requirements

• A completed university degree, preferably in law
• Experience in public-service broadcasting and in working with committees or supervisory bodies is an advantage
• Proven experience in staff management is desirable
• Strong communication skills, including decisiveness, ability to accept criticism, conflict-resolution skills and diplomatic strength
• Strong decision-making and judgment skills
• Situational sensitivity and confident handling of differing interests
• Methodological skills (e.g. organization, delegation, setting and pursuing goals)
• Personal competencies (e.g. self-reflection, personal responsibility, self-organization and adaptability)
• Openness to change
• Strong team orientation
• Resilience and ability to work under high time pressure

Benefits

• Permanent employment under collective in-house agreements with regulated, flexible working hours (38.5 h/week) including a working time account
• Social benefits, e.g. company pension scheme
• Option to take out occupational disability insurance
• Training and development opportunities
• Occupational health management
• Measures to support work–life balance, such as the option for mobile work (max. 50%)
• A well-equipped workplace at the Halberg in Saarbrücken
• Subsidy for the DeutschlandTicket