Head of Social Affairs, Youth and Housing / Focus on Youth (m/f/d)

You take over the strategic and organizational management and further development of the Youth Portfolio with the areas of child and youth assistance, including day care, youth work and youth social work, general social service, education, child protection, early aid, youth assistance planning and family support and integration aid for children and young people You carry the management and control responsibility for the Youth Office area and ensure a legally compliant, quality-secured and future-oriented task management You lead the associated organizational units and executives and design personnel and organizational development including management development, process optimization and digitalization You develop the planning of youth assistance and technical priorities and combine demand planning, supply and quality development, controlling and action-oriented control You develop cooperation with free institutions, schools, institutions, associations and other partners and develop the interfaces to education, social planning, integration aid, prevention and health promotion You represent the professional interests of the Youth Office, advise the specialist department on strategically and politically relevant issues and prepare key topics for the relevant bodies. You also take responsibility for particularly important topics. Together with the second departmental management, you are responsible for the overall area in the double-headed area – in particular, you are actively involved in the strategic and organisational development of the area, budget and resources, organisation, digitization, controlling, crisis management and the uniform representation of the area.

You have deeper knowledge of child and youth aid law, in particular of the SGB VIII, and know the structures and control mechanisms of a municipal youth office as well as the central areas of youth assistance planning, child protection, assistance to education and day care. You think strategically and have a look for the whole. This brings together technical, organizational and economic requirements and develop clear goals and implementable solutions You can actively shape changes and take employees well. You give orientation, lead clear, binding and appreciation and ensure that new ideas and working methods are implemented permanently You also make clear decisions in difficult and conflict-affected situations, take responsibility and can bring together different interests safely, constructively and convincingly. You can communicate clearly and in a way that is so confident about politics, administration, carriers, cooperation partners and the public. You understand political and administrative contexts and can combine different interests and combine them into sustainable solutions You bring the willingness and ability to take responsibility together in an equal double tip. You agree to make decisions binding, work closely together and represent the overall area to the outside Your requirements: completed academic studies (master or equivalent degree) in a course of studies relevant to the perception of tasks, in particular social work, social education, social management, administrative science, public management or law, or Capacity for the higher non-technical administration service (4th entry office) multiannual relevant professional experience in responsible function in child and youth assistance or in a youth office multiannual leadership experience with personnel responsibility, preferably in a municipal administration, another public administration or a public institution of child and youth assistance

an indefinite employment relationship or the takeover into an official's relationship an interesting, versatile and demanding task in Worms various offers in the context of occupational health management Company fitness with EGYM Wellpass social welfare attractive training offers occupational pensions and benefits for employees Support in the reconciliation of family and work, e.g. through flexible working hours or teleworking werkgeber-funded Deutschlandticket as well as a very good transport connection Cycling leasing as part of the payment conversion The city of Worms is committed to equal opportunities and is therefore particularly interested in the application of women with appropriate qualifications. Disabled people are preferably taken into account with the same suitability. .