Wide range of activities
The tasks of the Federal Administration are as diverse as our country itself. Discover the full range of activities that allow you to help shape Switzerland's future.
IT
Cybersecurity, the development of eGovernment services and nationwide IT projects aimed at continually improving the efficiency of the Administration: digitalisation also influences work at the Federal Administration. Specialised ICT knowledge is thus in great demand in all administrative units.
Commercial and administrative services
These service-oriented fields of activity offer an almost unlimited range of opportunities. You can get involved in a wide variety of subject areas and administrative units. The range includes administrative, scientific, legal, logistical, editorial and accounting tasks.
Legal
As a lawyer, you deal with the ground rules that apply to the people, businesses and organisations, and you help to shape them by drafting legal texts on behalf of your administrative unit, providing legal advice to affected parties or representing your office in appeal proceedings. We need experts in all areas of law.
Academia and research
In the laboratory, at a desk or outdoors: scientific work at the Federal Administration takes place in a wide variety of domains and at various locations. You will draft assessments and expert opinions, prepare scientific foundations, publish results, ensure the transfer of knowledge to internal units and the general public, and perform authorisation and supervisory functions.
Maintenance, trades and logistics
The Federal Administration, including the Armed Forces, relies heavily on skilled tradespeople. You will find a wide range of attractive jobs in vehicle and building maintenance, logistics, transport and tool and machine technology.
Engineering and technology
Here you use your expertise in infrastructure projects of national importance. You develop innovative technical solutions for challenges such as mobility, energy supply and environmental management. Your expertise is also sought after for the development of new digitalisation and IT offerings, as well as security-related topics.
Finances and controlling
You help to ensure that public funds are used transparently in accordance with applicable standards. For example, you might take care of financial planning, overseeing financial statements, preparing cost-effectiveness analyses or supporting the office management in decision-making. You often play a coordinating role between the HR, logistics and IT sectors.
Staff services and management support
This is where it all comes together: in various staff functions, you can provide decision-makers with the elements they need for the forward-looking and efficient implementation of projects. Depending on the role, the emphasis is on planning, management, coordination or consulting.
Human Resources
In the HR divisions of the federal offices, you look for suitable talent and create the best possible conditions for employees to flourish and continue to grow. At the Federal Office of Personnel, you can develop the basis for the Federal Council's personnel policy and coordinate its implementation throughout the Federal Administration.
International relations and diplomatic tasks
Foreign trade, science, environmental policy, migration, peacebuilding, development cooperation or tax and fiscal policy: at the Federal Administration, you will find a wide range of activities that strengthen cross-border cooperation. Your work will help to promote constructive global networking between government authorities.
Construction and real estate
The Federal Administration owns and manages a substantial real estate portfolio in Switzerland and abroad, with a wide range of activities in property procurement, building management and maintenance. Aside from administrative buildings, the real estate portfolio includes buildings used for representation purposes, military, customs and sports facilities, embassies around the world and historic buildings.
Investigation and examination
If you have a keen interest in protecting internal security and enforcing laws, you will find a wide range of task areas in various departments: examples include the fight against terrorism, cybercrime and organised crime, tax fraud investigations and the investigation of public transport and aviation accidents.
Medicine, health and psychology
With the health of the Swiss population in mind, you apply your expertise in a variety of ways: prevention and health promotion, establishing the basis or preparing analyses for primary healthcare or examining the impact of the environment on health.
Personal safety and building security
Certain people and buildings under the Confederation's responsibility are subject to special protection, and you are actively involved in providing it. Your role may include examining potential sources of danger, drawing up security concepts, controlling access to buildings or carrying out patrols.
Communications
The Federal Council and the Administration communicate in a timely and transparent manner about their government and administrative activities. In doing so, they rely on the support of internal experts. One of your key tasks is to prepare and convey information for the media, the public and internal employees via various channels in a way that is tailored to the target audience.
Military sector
In the military sector, you actively contribute to security and peace in Switzerland: you defend your country, support the civilian authorities in emergencies or carry out peacebuilding duties abroad. Your tasks could include training militia cadres and recruits or performing Military Police duties, Military Flight Service activities or Special Forces assignments.
Customs
You make a valuable contribution to internal security and to ensuring that the cross-border trade in goods functions smoothly. Depending on your area of deployment, your tasks may include searching for people and vehicles, combating smuggling and forged documents, or monitoring the importation, exportation and transit of goods, animals and plants. You also collect various taxes, levies and customs duties.
Language services
Plurilingualism is part of the Federal Administration's DNA. To ensure that legal texts, reports and studies, as well as digital information services, are available to the public in multiple languages, we need you as a language professional. In addition to translation services in the national languages, interpreters are also needed for international events or in the field of migration.
Supervision and auditing
You ensure that statutory requirements are complied with by companies, citizens and public authorities, and that taxpayers' money is used in accordance with the law. This can be the case in audits within the Federal Administration, for example, or when authorising healthcare service providers or checking agriculture subsidy payments.
Various opportunities to take on responsibility
Specialist expertise
Specialist roles require analytical and conceptual skills, team spirit and the willingness to develop convincing solutions.
Leadership role
As a manager, you lead and coach a team in a thoughtful and targeted manner. You have good communication skills and act as a role model. The training programme specially developed for managers at all levels will strengthen your leadership skills.
Project management
You plan projects and take a strategic approach to carrying them out. A long-term vision, holistic thinking and flexibility are equally valuable in this role. The Federal Administration supports the development of your project management skills.
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Vacancies
Vacancies at the Federal Administration offer diverse tasks and meaningful responsibilities. Explore exciting opportunities in a modern working environment.
Benefits
Flexible working, performance-related salary system, continuing professional development and other factors make the Federal Administration an attractive employer.