Saarländischer Rundfunk

Head of the Committees Secretariat

Saarländischer Rundfunk

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Saarbrücken • Germany

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • 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
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