Fachkraft - Sozialarbeit

Arbeitsagentur; Wien; Vor Ort; EUR 52.000 - 77.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

30 days annual leave

4 school holidays

5% pension contribution

Professional development

State-of-the-art campus facilities

Zusammenfassung

Vienna International School seeks an experienced safeguarding leader to oversee school-wide safeguarding and child protection policies and culture in Vienna. The role requires 8+ years in child protection, strong leadership, and the ability to collaborate with authorities and staff.

You will coordinate case management, advise senior leadership, and drive safer recruitment and training initiatives to protect students and adults alike.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in social work, psychology, child protection, safeguarding, child development, youth welfare, counselling, public health, or a related field with relevant safeguarding and case management training.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in child protection, safeguarding, social services, youth welfare, or school wellbeing, including complex case management and safeguarding leadership.
• Strong understanding of child protection, safeguarding, trauma, abuse, online harm, safer recruitment, data protection, and Austrian child and youth welfare pathways.
• Excellent English and basic German, with ability to communicate with Austrian authorities and understand official documentation.

Aufgaben

• Strategic Safeguarding Leadership: Lead and continuously strengthen the school-wide safeguarding and child protection framework, policies, procedures, and culture.
• Safeguarding Coordination & Case Management: Act as the senior point of coordination and escalation, ensuring concerns are appropriately assessed, documented, referred, and followed up in a timely, child-centered manner.
• Leadership Advice & Governance: Advise school leadership, counsellors, HR, and relevant staff on safeguarding thresholds, actions, allegations, and governance reporting while maintaining confidentiality.
• Training, Prevention & Safer Recruitment: Build safeguarding capacity through staff training, practical guidance, safer recruitment, induction, codes of conduct, and effective management of concerns involving adults.
• External Partnerships & Records Management: Maintain strong relationships with Austrian child and youth welfare services, authorities, and specialist providers, while ensuring secure, accurate, and compliant safeguarding records.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Case management

Communication

Data protection

Ausbildung

Degree in social work or related field

Jobbeschreibung

Your core responsibilities

• Strategic Safeguarding Leadership: Lead and continuously strengthen the school-wide safeguarding and child protection framework, policies, procedures, and culture.
• Safeguarding Coordination & Case Management: Act as the senior point of coordination and escalation, ensuring concerns are appropriately assessed, documented, referred, and followed up in a timely, child-centered manner.
• Leadership Advice & Governance: Advise school leadership, counsellors, HR, and relevant staff on safeguarding thresholds, actions, allegations, and governance reporting while maintaining confidentiality.
• Training, Prevention & Safer Recruitment: Build safeguarding capacity through staff training, practical guidance, safer recruitment, induction, codes of conduct, and effective management of concerns involving adults.
• External Partnerships & Records Management: Maintain strong relationships with Austrian child and youth welfare services, authorities, and specialist providers, while ensuring secure, accurate, and compliant safeguarding records.

Your profile

• Qualifications: Degree in social work, psychology, child protection, safeguarding, child development, youth welfare, counselling, public health, or a related field, with relevant safeguarding and case management training.
• Experience: Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in child protection, safeguarding, social services, youth welfare, or school wellbeing, including complex case management and safeguarding leadership.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of child protection, safeguarding, trauma, abuse, online harm, safer recruitment, data protection, and Austrian child and youth welfare pathways.
• Languages: Excellent English and basic German, with the ability to communicate effectively with Austrian authorities and understand official documentation.
• Mindset: Discreet, emotionally mature, and child-centered, with sound judgement, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage sensitive cases and competing priorities in a multicultural environment.

What we offer

• Purpose & Impact: A meaningful, high-level role where your work directly safeguards a diverse, values-driven educational community.
• Work-Life Integration: A welcoming, stable, and highly professional school environment that offers a sustainable alternative to traditional billable-hour corporate cultures.
• Attractive Compensation: Attractive salary classified under Employment Group F of the collective agreement (KV für Angestellte im Handel), featuring a standard 30% school-specific overpayment (starting at a minimum of € 52,402.00 up to € 77,252.00 annual gross salary, with higher placement based on relevant years of experience).
• Holiday entitlement: 30 days annual leave + 4 additional all-staff school holidays
• Additional Benefits: 5% company top-up pension contribution, continuous professional development opportunities, and state-of-the-art campus facilities.

Please note that a valid residence title and work permit for Austria is required.

Vienna International School

The VIS HR Team

Straße der Menschenrechte 1, 1220 Wien

Email: [e-mail]

www.vis.ac.at