Coordinating Specialist (m/f/d) Daycare Center

Personnel Department - Career & Family Division - Daycare Center

As an independent provider of youth welfare, UKSH operates a facility with currently 228 daycare places. The places are distributed across two adjacent buildings with a total of 16 groups (nursery groups, elementary groups, mixed-age groups). The buildings are located immediately on the campus. The facility is open from Monday to Friday from 5:45 AM to 6:00 PM, or until 9:00 PM upon prior registered need. Additionally, the KiTa is open on Saturdays and on certain public holidays from 5:45 AM to 3:00 PM. Further information about our daycare centers can be found at: .

Start in our team

Join our team and support us at the earliest possible date, *initially fixed-term* as part of a maternity leave replacement *until 10.04.2027 with the option for extension*!

What we offer you:

• Classification into pay group S15 TV-L upon fulfillment of the collective agreement requirements
• Full-time employment, currently 38.5 hours / week; part-time activity may be possible within the framework of certain working time models

• Many employee discounts on various online platforms and with various companies
• A plus for employees and the climate: Deutschlandticket with the highest discount level

• Further exciting benefits of UKSH can be found here:

What awaits you:

• Assumption of coordinating tasks within the management team
• Promotion and demand for the implementation and design of the conceptual work of eight groups

• Promotion of active parental work by the pedagogical specialists, coordinated with the specific requirements of the eight groups
• Development of demand-oriented offers for the UKSH daycare center at the management level through your pedagogical attitude and professionalism

• The suitability and ability for goal-oriented leadership of employees is required

What you bring with you:

• A completed training as a state-recognized Erzieher/Erzieherin with additional qualification (Fachwirt/Fachwirtin for management or daycare center management, educational sciences or social affairs), state-recognized Kindheitspädagogin/Kindheitspädagoge, state-recognized Sozialpädagogin/Sozialpädagoge or Sozialarbeiterin/Sozialarbeiter with Diplom/FH or B.A. or Diplom-Pädagogin/Pädagoge
• Professional experience in working in a daycare center as well as at least three years of management experience in a three- or higher-group daycare center

• Good English skills
• High professional and social competence, confident appearance, as well as goal-oriented leadership of employees

• Conceptual skills, empathy, and ability to cooperate, as well as initiative, sense of responsibility, and strong communication skills round off your profile

We look forward to receiving your application by 11.08.2026, stating the vacancy number 29009.