Career

We are guided by a modern reform pedagogical approach inspired by Maria Montessori and Emmi Pikler. For us, the focus is on the child and his or her individual development. We understand that children want to discover their own interests and develop freely. Our mission is to create an environment that encourages them to experiment with educational play and learning materials. At Biberbau Daycare, we believe in each child's "inner blueprint" and offer a bilingual experience in German and English to support their language development.

Our career brochure provides more detailed information on our innovative role and organization model "Biberbau Passion". In it, we show individual career developments for all positions. Discover how you can develop your technical expertise and showcase your passion with us.

You like our philosophy and you already have a pedagogical education? Then we look forward to receiving your application. We are looking for:

From career starter to expert - discover the career stages and development opportunities at Biberbau at our personal meeting at one of our locations in a relaxed atmosphere!

Are you looking for new career opportunities and would like to get to know an exciting carrier? Then our After Work Event is just the right thing for you! We cordially invite you to our After Work Event, where you will have the opportunity to get to know our team live. Immerse yourself in a relaxed atmosphere and get to know potential future colleagues.

Learn more about our diverse job opportunities that we currently have to fill. Whether you already have professional experience or are just starting your career - with us you will find the right position to develop your skills and your passion.

Not only do we present exciting career opportunities, but we also showcase our expanded organizational and role model of the traditional daycare center. It is our unique selling point and offers our employees a variety of career stages and opportunities to change roles, focusing on their subject expertise and passion. Our After Work offers you the perfect platform to have interesting conversations in a relaxed and informal atmosphere and to gain first impressions of our company. Here you can ask questions and get an insight into our exciting projects and fields of activity. Here you can find our new career brochure, with further information about our Biberbau passion concept.

We are looking forward to meeting you in person! Please register for the appointment using the form below. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to join our monthly online get-to-know-you sessions.

Date:

The next dates for our After Work events will be announced here

Place:

Freiham: Aubinger Allee 110, 81249 Munich

Bogenhausen: Vollmannstrasse 59, 81925 Munich

Untergiesing: Salierstraße 24, 81543 Munich

"Strong roots and a free spirit" is the basic principle of the Biberbau Kindergarten. We combine Montessori and Emmi Pikler education with bilingual language development in German and English for children from six months to three years and three years to six years. Partially open rooms and diverse open spaces provide an ideal environment for curiosity and creativity. We also place the highest value on qualified professionals who use their own ideas to optimally support and encourage children in their development.

With passion and competence at Biberbau

Biberbau Passion offers the opportunity for every professional, supplementary staff and even external professionals, to work according to their own strengths and competencies. See a few examples from our innovative leadership and role model.

Creative impulses for preschool education - Our Biberbau Passion Manager Preschool Luca tells about his role at Biberbau

"The preschool years are a crucial time in a child's development. As the Biberbau Passion Manager Preschool, my vision is to provide every child with an inspiring and holistic preschool education. Together with our dedicated team, we strive to spark children's curiosity, nurture their skills, and prepare them for their continuing educational journey."

Strategically Networked, Effectively Coordinated - Our Biberbau Passion Advisor Coordination Sarah talks about her role at Biberbau

"In my role as Biberbau Passion Consultant Coordination, I have an important responsibility at Biberbau. It is my job to ensure smooth operations and effective communication between the different areas. At Biberbau, I especially appreciate the support I receive in this role. I receive regular training and continuing education to further develop my skills in coordination. The working conditions are also very good - I'm not on group duty, I'm free to arrange my own hours and I can also work in a home office 50% of the time."

Montessori with passion - Our Biberbau Passion Expert for Montessori tells about her role at Biberbau

"As a Biberbau Passion expert in the Montessori field, I deeply believe that each child is a unique being who can learn at his or her own pace and in his or her own way. By applying Montessori principles, we create an environment where children discover their passions and build their self-confidence. My role is to provide all the necessary frameworks to offer training and coaching to colleagues according to their experience and thus continuously expand their competence."

Colors, shapes, fantasy - thanks to our external art specialist Julia at Biberbau

"Art is a unique language that can express emotions, stories and thoughts. As an external specialist for art in the Biberbau, I have the wonderful opportunity to promote the individual forms of expression of the children. In doing so, I visit the various groups and houses of the Biberbau and can fully incorporate my passion into the daycare's daily routine. Together we swing the brush, mix colors and find new ways of self-expression."

Experiencing versatility, connecting teams - Our jumper Carlos reports on his role at Biberbau

"As a student of childhood education and a jumper at Biberbau, I have the unique opportunity to test my theoretical knowledge in practice and get to know different teams as well as ways of working. Each house, each team, and each child holds a wealth of experiences and challenges that broaden my horizons and fuel my passion for early childhood education. With each leap into a new house, I discover new facets of pedagogical work and find my own way to accompany children on their individual learning and development process."

Many paths only reveal themselves as you walk - said Franz Kafka, a German writer at the beginning of the 20th century. For the last three years, Biberbau has grown considerably - many new locations, new pedagogues and, of course, many new parents and children. To accommodate this growth, pedagogical teams and operational teams work closely together.  

The Pedagogical Center - A five-member team with different focal points

The core - Conception and therapeutic education

The pedagogical center unites the areas of conception and therapeutic pedagogy under its umbrella as its core activities. For this purpose, the team creates concepts, standards, observation sheets, general and individual therapy plans and much more. The documents serve as guidelines for all colleagues in the locations, but also often for the parents as a basis for a good educational partnership with the pedagogues. "Montessori pedagogy and Pikler pedagogy are basically 100 years old, so you might think that everything has already been said" explains Jasmin as our pedagogue responsible for the concept. Nevertheless, the need for new documentation is huge. "In 2022 alone, we have written countless framework concepts." explains Annabelle, who qualitatively checks all concepts and determines the needs continuously.

The Biberbau Academy teaches all the content for implementation in reality.

"However, the best concept is only paper if it is not lived", correctly say site managers at Biberbau over and over. That's why the Biberbau has its own academy with many online and live training courses. All the educational content of the Biberbau is explained at different levels, from beginner courses to advanced training. To ensure that all this is not just theory, there are also many supervision and coaching sessions with Alina and Elisabeth on site, where, for example, difficult discussions with parents can be practiced and we can reflect on how each teacher can improve their personal work.

Many employees automatically have many topics

In the meantime, the Biberbau has about 45 employees in its locations. Numerous topics come up frequently, which are accompanied by the pedagogical center. Recognition issues, staff appraisals, further training, career changes that involve more tasks and areas of responsibility. "In order to support everyone in this and to show the ways to do so, the pedagogical center offers varied appointments, documents and training courses," explains Elisabeth. Important partners here are also Victoria, the head of our operations team, and Nele, our human resources manager.

Educational partnership and good parents' evenings are no coincidence

A kindergarten also has the task of working closely with parents - part of the educational partnership is a good parents' evening and a well-prepared parents' meeting. "But just as important are parent surveys, parent folders, parent intranet, parent newsletters and much more," explains Alina. As the person responsible for parent counseling, she advises site managers, group managers and offers all documents and many templates to enable successful and professional parent work.

Recruiting is the central topic for us in 2023 at Biberbau

However, the pedagogical team continues to grow - by the end of 2023, a good 25 staff members will be added. Even though Biberbau enjoys such great popularity and always finds new colleagues, it is a never-ending task to advertise new positions, to publish them, to advertise on the internet and on all social media channels. But the work is not done yet, because we still have to do interviews, job shadowing and, last but not least, contract negotiations before we hire someone. In this area, parts of the pedagogical head office work closely with colleagues from the operations office with the two managing heads. "Recruiting is the central issue for us in 2023 at Biberbau." Says the head of management. "That's why administration and educators work most closely together on this topic." explains Nele, our HR manager.

A good decision 

"Many heads of management do not allow themselves the luxury of a pedagogical head office and separate administration. The work is done by the site managers and the educators in the groups. But since the children always have priority, this area often falls by the wayside or is done in hundreds of hours of overtime," say the head of management. Biberbau therefore decided on this way of working many years ago and has been proved right.

The Biberbau welcomes new professionals! It is very important to us that your entry into our team runs smoothly, that you feel well taken care of from the beginning and that you have the best possible start with us. That's why we created our Welcome Days to give you a comprehensive introduction to our organization and our facilities.

Our Welcome Days are specifically designed to introduce you to our work culture and to give you a solid understanding of our educational philosophy, our work processes and our quality standards. Through a variety of training formats, you will be accompanied by experienced colleagues and gain valuable insights into our proven methods and approaches. The Welcome Days take place both online and on-site or as e-learning.

In addition to the professional training, we will also take the time to introduce you to our organization and our facilities. You will have the opportunity to get to know our administration, our pedagogical center and our colleagues. We want to make sure that you feel welcome at Biberbau right from the start and that you can integrate well.

We have also decided to introduce buddy and mentoring programs to ensure that our new team members receive optimum support on their way into their respective roles. The buddy program is a tried-and-tested concept in which experienced employees act as buddies and provide new colleagues with advice and support. This is not just about organizational issues, but above all about sharing experiences and knowledge about our pedagogical work and our values.

"The Welcome Days are a special time for us to welcome our new employees and to make their start in their new working environment as pleasant as possible. With the buddy and mentoring programs, we want to create a supportive and appreciative atmosphere in which our employees and their potential can fully develop," emphasizes Carlos, Manager Coordination.

A tablet in the group? Surely for organizing the next excursion, but not for digital games

From tablets in the group to digital training and hybrid parents' evenings on site and via online conferences. At Biberbau, we value a high level of digitization in all areas of work. Only with the children - there, we hold back.

Various software solutions support the organization of the daily pedagogical routine

When the site manager arrived at the kindergarten at 10:00 this morning, it was already the beginning of her workday. As early as 8:00 a.m., she received the first messages on her tablet from the educators on site about planned activities in the daily group schedule. At 9:00 a.m. she received a message about the final number of children in the groups and could therefore already plan the preparation times in the afternoon. Nowadays, four colleagues can attend training sessions and then prepare the parents' evening. Digital work in the kindergarten ensures a high degree of flexibility and efficiency in planning and implementing organization around the children's groups. Therefore, it is very important for us at Biberbau to use these tools and to work with them on a daily basis.

Digitally connect the administration, the pedagogical team and the parents

Even in the administration, work is hardly imaginable without software solutions. From the conclusion of childcare contracts, the processing of funding with the authorities, to the invoicing of parents - in all areas of administration, our software solutions are important tools for the work. But also the networking between our administration and our pedagogical teams in the locations succeeds best with digital tools. That's why we have developed our own intranet for our employees, where colleagues can find digital forms, place orders, request appointments, and have all pedagogical documents and templates quickly at hand.

Media education for children is a conscious decision

For children, tablets, computers and all other digital devices are constantly visible - at home, in the kindergarten, in public. Prohibiting children's access to such resources on principle makes no sense. At Biberbau, we emphasize age-appropriate media education to enable a conscious and healthy use of media. We also offer workshops for parents to explain how to deal with media successfully with children. In the group daily routine, however, we avoid all kinds of digital games or other apps on tablets, screens or other devices.

Your advantage

In order to ensure optimal care for the children by the educators, the Biberbau has created its own online training center for all employees, the "Biberbau Academy". The training courses on various topics such as induction, basic or advanced training, as well as training courses on special subject areas such as Montessori or Pikler pedagogy, are firmly integrated into the daily work at Biberbau. They ensure the quality of the pedagogical work and give the pedagogues the opportunity to continuously develop themselves within the normal working hours.

Depending on your education, experience and position, we offer you different trainings according to your needs. You will receive tailor-made training for your everyday pedagogical work with the children in the Biberbau, as well as assistance and advice on various pedagogical and organizational topics. In addition, there are regular opportunities for professional exchange with colleagues from the entire Biberbau team. In this way we also ensure quality in our daycare centers and kindergartens and harmonious teamwork.

For educators in leadership positions, we also offer training in the areas of self-management and communication, organization and team leadership. Based on your previous experience, we complement your know-how and skills. In this way, we ensure that you can develop with us and secure your chances of advancement.