Charlotte Buri takes her well-deserved retirement

"It is with heartfelt thanks and great appreciation that we bid farewell to Charlotte Buri, who is entering her well-deserved retirement," says Susanne Pfau, Managing Director of MainArbeit Kommunales Jobcenter Offenbach.

Buri's career at the city, which began on January 1, 1987 as a social worker in the "Help to work for welfare recipients" project at the social welfare office, is impressive. The topic of municipal employment promotion, which was still in its infancy at the time, would never let her go. At the time, municipal employment promotion not only included non-profit work for people on social welfare, but also opened up new opportunities for unemployed people with non-profit organizations such as GOAB Gemeinnützige Beschäftigungs- und Ausbildungsgesellschaft, Caritas or the IB International Federation for Social Work. Based on this, Buri developed her own counseling and placement concepts for the integration of the long-term unemployed.

From 1991, she applied her specialist knowledge to the integration of the long-term unemployed at the municipal employment promotion agency and, from March 1995, accompanied the creation of the Office for Employment Promotion and Statistics, where she took over the management of the "Help to Work" department.

When the MainArbeit job center was founded on January 1, 2005, as a result of the merger of unemployment assistance and social welfare, Charlotte Buri became Head of Counselling and Placement. In this role, she was responsible for the integration of SGB II benefit recipients into employment and was appointed Deputy Operations Manager in January 2012.

She has successfully shaped this role for two decades with her expertise and extensive network. "Employment promotion is an exciting, wide-ranging and challenging field of work, because every change in the labor market and fundamental political developments reach us immediately and we have to create adequate advice and services for the people concerned in order to successfully support them in their integration into the labor market. This includes help in finding a job, language support, the assessment and promotion of mental and physical health and the promotion of qualifications. I have worked with many dedicated employees to achieve this," says Buri.

"For Charlotte Buri, this task was truly a matter close to her heart," says Susanne Pfau, paying tribute to her departing colleague. Buri celebrated her 40th anniversary of service on April 15, 2024. "Offenbach has become my home town for me and I feel very closely connected to the city and its citizens. I have always found my task of creating structures and offers to integrate people into the job market to be particularly important and valuable," reports Charlotte Buri.

"Ms. Buri has shaped municipal employment promotion in our city for a long time with a great deal of commitment, high professional competence and reliability," says Martin Wilhelm, City Treasurer and head of the department responsible for MainArbeit, and wishes Charlotte Buri all the best for the new phase of her life.

Now a new phase begins - with more time for her many hobbies. Charlotte Buri is an enthusiastic runner, enjoys cycling, hiking, playing the guitar and singing in a choir.