Project Manager - Program and Project Coordinator

Ref 2581498 | Date: 28 Sept 2026 villege-mhn The Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève (MHN) is one of the leading scientific and cultural institutions in Switzerland. It carries out missions of research, conservation, mediation, and enhancement of natural heritage. A vast project to safeguard the collections was validated in June 2026 in addition to ongoing projects concerning important infrastructure work and new museography. In this context, the Museum wishes to establish a program organization for the operational management of the various ongoing projects. This large-scale program aims to sustainably strengthen the preservation of the museum's exhibited collections, prepare the museum's opening to the public with its renovated galleries as well as all the new spaces planned in the various ongoing projects. In order to complete the governance of this strategic program, to ensure general coordination, operational implementation, and transversal steering, the Museum is looking for a Project Manager - Program and Project Coordinator (auxiliary position at 80%)

Your mission and your responsibilities

• Ensure the coordination of the program including the various projects of the Museum (disinfestation, museography and infrastructure work), by ensuring the operational steering of the program based on the strategy defined and validated by the governance bodies.
• Ensure the coordination of the gallery disinfestation project (PR 1760)
• Prepare, structure and monitor the files necessary for the conduct of the program and the project, in support of strategic decisions, in close link with the established governance, working groups, support services, steering bodies, and mandated service providers.
• Coordinate the work of multidisciplinary teams and working groups involved while ensuring the consistency of methods, respect for objectives, deadlines, and qualitative requirements of the projects.
• Provide high-level expertise in the field of complex and transversal project management, and advise management in the analysis, orientation, and validation of the work produced.
• Ensure the institutional interface function between the different internal and external stakeholders of the project, guarantee the flow of information, the monitoring of decisions, and the traceability of actions.
• Identify, anticipate and manage risks likely to impact the realization or the purpose of the projects, and propose suitable solutions in case of critical situations or incidents.
• Produce and deliver finalized deliverables (analyses, studies, summary notes, steering documents), within the allotted deadlines, and ensure their update according to the evolution of the projects.

Your profile

• Possess a university-level education (master's or equivalent) in the fields of heritage, conservation, architecture, project management, or in a field deemed equivalent.
• Possess significant professional experience in managing complex and transversal projects in an institutional, heritage, or cultural context. Knowledge of the Hermès framework will be considered an asset.
• Demonstrate a keen sense of organization, an ability to plan, prioritize and coordinate work involving multiple actors and interdisciplinary skills.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, proven abilities to work in a network and to unite internal partners around common objectives.
• Attest to excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and a proven ability to adapt one's discourse according to interlocutors and contexts
• Highlight strong writing and analytical skills, allowing for the production of structured, clear and reasoned documents for steering and decision-making bodies.
• Demonstrate autonomy, rigor, reliability and an ability to evolve in a demanding and constantly evolving environment.

Conditions and application
Application deadline: 13 October 2026
Start date: to be agreed
Remuneration: Class L of the salary scale
Application: Workplaces: Museum and external site
Application file
The application file must contain the following elements:

• Motivation letter;
• Detailed curriculum vitae or, failing that, completed "Job Application" form (to download from our website);
• Copies of diplomas and work certificates;
• Recent photo (passport format).

Hiring conditions

• Meet the requirements of the position in terms of diplomas and experience required in the job offer.
• Hold a valid work permit or authorization. Employees of the Ville de Genève must be domiciled in the domiciliation zone ( In its desire to fight unemployment, the city encourages applications coming from the Office cantonal de l'emploi. More information on the working conditions of the Ville de Genève: [ ](< >) jpid8d6d41ejm jpit0940jm jpiy26jm}