The SOS-Kinderdorf e.V. The SOS-Kinderdorf e.V. is a renowned aid organisation and a free, non-profit institution of child and youth assistance with 38 facilities throughout the federal territory and around 5,200 employees.

The SOS Children's Village Lausitz – Advisory, Youth and Family Centre in the South of Brandenburg is a combination of differentiated youth assistance offerings with preventive and outpatient assistance and day care facilities.

In the SOS Children's Village of Lausitz, we are looking for a social pedagogue as an area manager (m/w/d) for stationary support for education in full time (38,5 hours/Where.) Your task: As Head of Department (m/w/d), you take on the professional, human and organizational responsibility for our stationary support for education and shaping their further development. At the beginning, you will be responsible for our mother/father-child facility with five seats. In the further course, you will accompany the construction of a family-friendly children's and youth group with eight seats and the development of other outpatient support services for families. Perspectively, you will lead around 16 employees and work confidently with the institution management, youth offices, cooperation partners and regional network partners. You shape the technical orientation of the area and help to provide reliable development and protection spaces for children, young people and families. Your tasks include: Professional and organizational management of our stationary offers as well as social educational assistance for families, including responsibility for the strategic and conceptual development of your area. Leadership, accompaniment and development of your employees through a clear, valuable and reflected leadership. You promote a trusted team culture, accompany change processes, lead employee talks and ensure transparent communication as well as predictive personnel planning. Ensuring and further developing educational quality by continuously reviewing professional standards, controlling quality development processes and promoting a professional, resource-oriented way of working in the teams. Ensure child and care protection in close cooperation with the child and care protection team. You continuously develop existing protective concepts and ensure their conscientious implementation in everyday work. Advising and supporting families and accompanying children and adolescents in stressful situations of life. Conceptual development of existing offers and the development of new stationary and outpatient aids within the SOS Children's Village Lausitz. This includes, in particular, the establishment of a familial children's and young people's group as well as the participation of other needs-oriented offers. Responsibility for the organization and control of your work area. You design efficient processes, coordinate the willingness to call within the teams and support the setup management in overarching organizational and strategic issues. Trustful cooperation with youth offices, cooperation partners and regional network partners. You represent your area to the outside, maintain existing cooperations and continuously expand them in the sense of successful networking. Takeover of public and professional representation tasks to make the offers of the SOS Children's Village Lausitz visible and to develop actively. Participation in the strategic development of the overall facility by introducing your expertise, actively shaping change processes and developing the future of education aids together with the management team.

Your qualifications and skills: Complete study of social work or social education or a comparable university degree. Founded professional experience in stationary child and youth assistance as well as first or more years of experience in a management function. An esteeming, clear and reflected leadership with which you motivate, accompany and strengthen employees in their professional development. A structured and predictive way of working, combined with organisational skills and the ability to keep an overview even in challenging situations. Representative communication and conflict resolution competence as well as a safe and responsible occurrence in dealing with employees, families, youth offices and cooperation partners. A professional approach to proximity and distance as well as a clear stance on child and care protection. Joy in developing educational concepts, ensuring quality and actively shaping change processes. Interested in a trusted cooperation with youth offices, regional networking partners and within the overall facility SOS-Kinderdorf Lausitz. An additional qualification, for example in systemic advice or systemic therapy, is desirable.

Our services as an employer: Your financial advantages an attractive salary based on the TVöD SuE Annual special payment and cash benefits a 100% employee-funded pension scheme of 6.9 % of the monthly gross salary incl. Income incapacity insurance up to 500 € per year for public transport costs Home allowance and allowances for services at unfavourable times monthly food allowance Grant S allowance cheap Jobradleasing (including e-bikes) an extensive package of other services such as additions to natural healing treatments, dental prosthesis, visual aids etc. Voluntary social benefits such as grants for wedding, birth or adoption of a child Corporate Benefits' SOS advantages portal with a variety of cost-effective offers of well-known brands from all relevant areas of life – for example technology, travel, fashion, living and much more as a member of the Joint Association, the SOS-Kinderdorf e.V. and its employees have access to special conditions of numerous providers Compatibility of private and professional life 31 days holiday plus free days on 24th and 31st December Regeneration days Special leave schemes employee-friendly time compensation of the resulting shift services Team events (e.g. celebrations, excursions, culture) Save credits on your personal time value account and realize professional downtime (sabbatical) Professional and personal development incl. Health care flexible support for continuing and continuing training through exemption and financial support Corporate fitness with Wellpass: Access to a nationwide network of gyms, swimming pools and online courses Support service with voiio: Confidential advice and support for employees in professional and private challenges - including coaching, short-term care for children and relatives, specialist placement and health prevention programs very extensive catalogue of events with numerous seminars on professional and personal development Regular Supervision multi-day new employee meeting with possibilities of exchange and networking benefit from our expertise and the high level of expertise as a nationwide supporter in child and youth assistance