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Communications Manager – BFH-HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute

'What I particularly love about my job are the super-exciting projects. I'm right at the heart of them and lead them from initialization to implementation.' Priscilla Caliandro

Communications Manager – BFH-HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute

70 %
Limited until 3 years
Zollikofen
Start 01.01.2026 or by arrangement
Homeoffice possible
To start with, here are some of our strong points
  • An incredible variety of themes enriching and adding spice to this important control and support function.
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  • International teaching staff that combines tradition with innovation and excellence with experiment and thus gives students individual guidance towards their own careers.
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  • Great freedom in work organisation with lots of leeway for your ideas, your creativity and decisiveness.
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  • When looking for solutions, it helps to be curious and to think truly outside the box.
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  • Responsibility in hugely exciting projects for the future attracting attention beyond the professional world.
And here are even more good reasons to opt for BFH
What you'll be doing here
  • Strengthen the Institute's and HAFL's visibility and reputation in international agricultural, forest, food sciences, and resource management research and education
  • Create and disseminate internal and external communications to promote the work of the Institute and its staff, students and partners
  • Collaborate with internal and external colleagues and partners to ensure effective communication
  • Organise the Institute's Annual Event and other communication and knowledge management practices
  • Write and publish website news stories and project/staff profiles, as well as working paper series, newsletters, press releases, social media posts, audiovisual materials, etc.
What you'll bring with you
  • Relevant bachelor's or master's degree, preferably in communication/marketing or agricultural/forest/food or life sciences or international development
  • Minimum 3–5 years working in corporate or university communications, marketing, science communications, or other relevant fields, including event organisation
  • Writing, networking, communication and organisational skills, ideally in the relevant thematic areas (agricultural/forest/food and life sciences)
  • Independent yet team-oriented work approach; intercultural and interdisciplinary skills and interests; expertise and/or interest in international cooperation and development
  • English native speaker, with good knowledge of German and ideally also French
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School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences

At HAFL, a department of BFH, we're all about connecting humans, nature and technology towards sustainable development. As a ground-breaking, pioneering think tank, we are engaged in the creation and teaching of knowledge for the world of today and of tomorrow – bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, resilient and always solidly grounded at the same time.

Doing something meaningful in a fascinating environment and with an outlook to the future: a job at Bern University of Applied Sciencesmakes perfect sense.

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