Job Posting: Specialist Consultant for Location Policy and Communication at IHK Dresden

Practical service and entrepreneurial thinking – that’s what the IHK Dresden stands for. With around 90,000 member companies, we are the largest representative of the interests of East Saxon entrepreneurs. It is our concern to actively shape and support the economic development in the chamber district. Around 160 employees in Dresden and at five regional locations do their best every day.

As an employer, we offer trainees, interns and young professionals as well as experienced specialists a wide range of tasks and development opportunities. In order to maintain willingness to perform, motivation and a high level of commitment in the long term, we promote the compatibility of work and leisure for our employees with a family-friendly flexitime system and variable part-time models. We promote your career with targeted personnel development and a wide range of further training opportunities.

We are looking for a person for the business area location policy and communication in the main office in Dresden as of September 1st Specialist consultant (m/f/d). This is a permanent full-time position.

· Information and advice for companies, especially SMEs, on all topics relating to the recruitment, employment and development of domestic and foreign workers and skilled workers, including

• the implementation and expansion of strategic HR work,
• improving employer attractiveness,
• the conception of in-house qualification and further training,
• the integration of disadvantaged groups of workers (inclusion),
• support in the recruitment and integration of international workers and specialists,
• the establishment of a culture of welcome for greater internationalization of workforces as well as
• the use of labor market-relevant funding instruments.

· Preparation and communication of specialist information in the context of self-designed and organized events, mainly for entrepreneurs and HR managers.

· Interdisciplinary exchange and professional coordination within the IHK with the areas of labor market policy, law, international, training and further education as well as the regional offices.

A degree, preferably in a social, educational or economic field or equivalent training and further education with relevant professional experience,

· Knowledge of the regional economic structure as well as of actors relevant to the labor market, of labour, social and immigration law as well as of human resources management is an advantage,

· a high degree of customer orientation, advisory skills and empathy in dealing with different groups of people,

· the willingness to acquire new knowledge on a regular basis,

· Organizational skills and a structured, independent and reliable way of working,

· Versed verbal and written communication, ideally also in English,

· Confident handling of modern office/EDP technology and MS Office applications as well

· A driver’s license as the position requires mobility