Residential Center Manager (100%) - CDI

Ref 2586289 | Date: 19 Oct 2026

EVAM - Etablissement vaudois d'accueil des migrants

Residential Center Manager (100%) - CDI

Residential Center Manager (100%) - CDI

EVAM (Établissement vaudois de l'accueil des migrants) is a major actor in the Vaud public service. With more than 1'000 committed employees and an annual budget of 360 million francs, we ensure the reception, support, and integration of migrant persons in the canton of Vaud.

Every day, our teams work with openness and responsibility to respond to essential social issues. Joining EVAM means putting your skills at the service of a human and public utility mission, in a stimulating, diverse, and constantly evolving professional environment.

As part of a replacement, we are recruiting a:

Residential Center Manager (100%) - CDI

Location: Yverdon-les-Bains and Ballaigues
Start date: 1st February 2027
Salary class: 10 (this scale is subject to validated prerequisites, failing which the placement is made at class -1)

What you bring to our mission:

You direct the residential centers under your responsibility by ensuring team management, coordination of activities, the quality of services delivered to beneficiaries, as well as the overall smooth running of the sites.

A word from your future manager, Chantal:

"Our residential centers or collective accommodation centers represent much more than accommodation for migrant persons. They are places of life, support, learning, and encounters.

In our centers, the quality of support relies on the strength of the collective, the clarity of the framework, and the daily commitment of the teams. You will be able to rely on an invested interdisciplinary team — social workers, stewards, reception and orientation staff, supervisors — as well as a supportive and experienced collective of residential center managers.

We believe in sharing practices and in participatory management based on trust, listening, dialogue, and empowerment. We are looking for a person capable of uniting, deciding, coordinating, and giving meaning to action, ready to take on the challenges of professional, human, and high-quality support."

Your key missions:

• You direct three residential centers, plan and organize activities
• You manage human resources and the budget
• You ensure the smooth running of the centers and the activities related to beneficiaries as well as services
• You represent the centers and the establishment to various internal and external partners, notably local authorities
• You implement and monitor compliance with standards, operating rules, and center procedures

Your key skills:

• Decision-making spirit and capacity for action
• Planning and sense of organization
• Open-mindedness and flexibility
• Teamwork, listening, and communication
• Compliance with legal standards, internal procedures, and confidentiality
• Resistance to tension, energy, and tenacity

Your profile:

• Bachelor's degree in a field useful to the function
• Certifying training in management
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in one or more of the supervised functions, including part of it in team and project management
• Strong interest in the field of migration

What EVAM offers you:

• A committed working environment
• A continuous training policy to evolve in your career
• A teleworking policy
• 5 weeks of vacation (6 from age 50)
• Very good social benefits
• Meaningful projects in a stimulating intercultural context

The 3-step recruitment process:

1. Interview with the operational coordination manager and the recruitment officer
2. Case study regarding issues related to the position
3. Immersion within the residential centers

At the end of the process: request for an extract from the criminal record

Do you recognize yourself in this mission?
We look forward to discovering your application and building a supportive future together.

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