Employees with Special Assignments

Staff members of the City Administration may be appointed as "Employees with Special Assignments" to better accomplish large-scale municipal projects and specific coordination tasks within the City Administration.

Employees with Special Assignments are appointed by the Mayor. The Chief Executive Director of the Vienna City Administration issues a decree to officially announce their tasks. To carry out the tasks assigned to them they are vested with the right to issue directions to the heads of departments within whose field of competence their tasks fall.