Facts, facts, facts: What is actually part of the State Administration?

The State Administration of Lower Saxony comprises authorities of the direct and indirect State Administration.

Authorities of the direct State Administration:

• the State Chancellery, the ten Ministries, the State Court of Audit, the President of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony, and the State Representative for Data Protection.
• some central higher State authorities as well as local decentral specialist  authorities.

Authorities of the indirect State Administration:

• the municipalities and other institutions such as corporations, public agencies, and public foundations, e.g. the state forests, the Chamber of Agriculture, and the Chamber of Pharmacists.

The State offices play a special role between authorities and the private sector. Comparable to an authority, the State office belongs to the direct State Administration, however, is more than that characterized by an economic management, such as for example IT.Niedersachsen or the Alfred-Töpfer-Akademie.

In the career portal you will find all offers of the direct State Administration and of the State offices.

Provided for you (in German):

• Overview of the direct State Administration with the State offices.

The State Parliament - i.e. the parliament of the State of Lower Saxony - votes in a non-public election for the office of the Prime Minister, who then appoints the members of the State Government. They form the cabinet and may, in addition to their position as Ministers, not hold any other positions.

The cabinet adopts the guidelines of regional politics, distributes the tasks between the different Ministries, and decides on draft laws, which are presented to the State Parliament of Lower Saxony for voting. Further tasks are the appointment of top officials, and the determination of the voting behavior in the Federal Council. The last power of decision lies with the Prime Minister, however, the government is principally eager to reach an unanimous decision.

Provided for you (in German):

• Vorstellung des Kabinetts [Presentation of the cabinet]

Health is not everything. But without health, everything is nothing. An employer can do a lot to promote the wellbeing of his employees. This begins with the working conditions (e.g.  occupational safety), and goes well beyond the operational integration after a long time of illness. 

One important component is health management. It offers a lot of tools, with which the health of the employees can be promoted and maintained.

“Manage health” means considering the physical and mental health with regard to all decision processes of the respective office, and permanent integration. Very important: The employees are integrated into this process.

A further column is the so-called “Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung” [Operational Health Promotion]. Whether sports offer or massage, healthy nutrition or resilience training: There are numerous possibilities to make the challenging (work) routine easier. The “Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung” is thus becoming a real motivator to do something for your own health.

In cooperation with the health insurances, many offices have health-promoting offers, which comprise nutrition counselling, smoking cessation, stress management courses, spinal gymnastics, health checkups, or also whole health days.

Female, male, diverse – for the accomplishment of the work routine and the professional activities, the sex does of course not play any role.

Equality with regard to choosing and exercising a profession is getting better, however, still too slow. For the State Government, the equality of all sexes and sexual identities still remains one of the political challenges as long as the opportunities between the sexes are unequally distributed. Our goal is it to eliminate disadvantages.

The job offers are basically directed to all sexes and sexual identities, characterized by the abbreviation “m/w/d”. Furthermore, the text of the job offer is, as far as possible, formulated neutrally.

The “Niedersächsische Gleichberechtigungsgesetz (NGG)” [Non-Discrimination Act of Lower Saxony] contains regulations which at least facilitate the equality of men and women in civil service. In job offer processes, the respectively underrepresented sex is motivated to apply.

In addition, the State of Lower Saxony has obliged itself to gender mainstreaming and has equality as a consistent leitmotif. You can find out more about the equality of women and men and gender mainstreaming in the State service (in German) under 

Gleichberechtigung beim Arbeitgeber Land Niedersachsen

 [Equality at the employer State of Lower Saxony].

There is the saying: „Gehe hundert Schritte in den Schuhen eines anderen, wenn du ihn verstehen willst“ [“Walk a hundred steps in someone else‘s shoes if you want to understand them.”]. That means: This procedure opens the horizon for new perspectives, and increases the understanding for the interests of other people.

We all establish ourselves in our work routine, know procedures and processes off the cuff. The economy and administration traineeship thus offers 30 to 40 executives of public administration and private companies each year the chance to get to know the work routine of the respectively other person. Participants will profit from discovering new ways of working, dealing with problems, and solving problems. This two-week economy and administration traineeship will thus not only be an exciting experience, but at the same time an innovative instrument of staff development for executives.

“Employees do not leave the company, they leave their superior”.

With other words: Leadership quality has an high impact on the satisfaction and productivity of the colleagues. If it is good, the mood of the colleagues will also be good. The team will render top performances, and the company will be successful.

The good news: Leadership competence can be trained. The State of Lower Saxony thus supports young professionals in a target-oriented way with trainee programs, in which leadership-relevant key qualifications are conveyed. Inhouse events or seminars of the State-own “Studieninstitut” [Study Institution] will deal with these topics. 

Provided for you (in German):

• Studieninstitut des Landes Niedersachsen [Study Institution of the State of Lower Saxony]
• Trainee program

Did you know? A small piece of Lower Saxony can also be found in Berlin und Brussels!

Through the federal structure of the Federal Republic, the State of Lower Saxony is represented both nationally in Berlin and internationally in Brussels. In the respective State Representations, the interests of the State of Lower Saxony at the Bund and the EU are bundled and represented. Does that sound interesting for you?  

For excellently qualified employees there is still another career opportunity: Become a national expert in the specialist administrative departments of the European Union and work directly on the politically important setting of the agenda of our time. 

Provided for you (in German):

• Arbeiten als nationaler Sachverständiger [Working as a national expert]

Employyreceive remuneration according to the collective agreement of the Federal States (TV-L). The remuneration of civil servants is called Besoldung Salary and is defined in the Lower Saxony Salary and Pension Adjustment Act (NBVAnpG). Payment is usually made by the Lower Saxony State Office for Remuneration and Pensions (NLBV).

Is there somethinreceive g like E10 or A12 in an offer that interests you and you would like to know how much salary is hidden behind it?

With the help of the salary calculator of an external provider, you can get an initial overview of the amount of remuneration. We assume no liability for the content and accuracy of the calculations. No legal claims can be derived from the calculations you perform. The links are provided for orientation purposes only.

• Entgeltrechner [Calculator for remuneration]
• Besoldungsrechner [Calculator for the Besoldung]