Unit Manager for Open Care Area, Support Center and Stockholm Youth Service

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for someone who wants to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Social Administration of Stockholm City has an overarching and coordinating role for social services' individual and family care and the area of disabilities. Here, good conditions are created to meet residents in need of social services support. In close collaboration with the district administrations, we contribute to a modern, digital, legally secure, equal, and knowledge-based social service, and we have a strong focus on development. Within the administration, a wide range of support measures are offered to the city's residents, and the offerings change based on the needs of Stockholmers and the wishes of the district administrations. The work often occurs in close collaboration with other authorities, civil society, and the business community. The Social Administration is also responsible for the city's serving and tobacco permits and conducts supervision.

Welcome to the Open Care Area, Support Center, and Stockholm Youth Service

The Open Care Area is a sector within the Social Administration.

The area offers open care measures for children, youth, families, as well as for adults and couples as a complement to the district administrations' own measures. In your role as unit manager, you will be responsible for two operational areas, the Support Center and Stockholm Youth Service.

The main mission is to provide support and assistance to children and youth who have been affected by crime in various ways. The Support Center also offers advice and support conversations for relatives. The Support Center also works with mediation in cases of crime and participates in police interviews with young suspects of crime. The social workers at the Support Center are located with the police, distributed across different teams in the three police areas in Stockholm City.

Within the operational area of Stockholm Youth Service, we work with youth who have been convicted of crimes where the penalty consists of youth service. The penalty consists of unpaid work and an influence program containing individual conversations. At Stockholm Youth Service, social workers organize and implement the youth service penalty on behalf of the district administrations.

We offer you

At the Social Administration, we have flexible working hours as well as winter and summer hours. As a monthly employee, you have the opportunity for vacation exchange, flexible hours, and wellness benefits.

Read more about Stockholm City's employee benefits

Hello from your future manager:

"My name is Jessica Hellberg, and I have extensive experience within the Social Administration, where I have worked for the past 20 years. My drive is to manage our assignments so that they are of the greatest benefit to those we serve, which is why I place great importance on results and financial follow-ups. As a manager, I am trustworthy and give ample room for personal responsibility and development. In addition to the management group once a week, I have individual check-ins every week with my employees."

Your role as unit manager

In the role of unit manager, you have budget, personnel, and work environment responsibility for your operational areas. You ensure that the operational areas work according to current budget assignments and deliver against set goals. Your tasks also include establishing operational plans, quarterly reports, and operational narratives. The operational areas have many partners, both internally within the city and externally. The role includes coordinating and driving various processes in collaboration with these.

A total of 13 employees and a team leader work within the operational areas. Your task is to contribute to a good working climate and develop the work of the operational areas by coaching and leading employees to achieve good results in their daily work. You are part of the management group of Future Stockholm, which consists of four unit managers, a development secretary, and an area manager.

Your experience and competence

For this position, you are required to have

• a degree in social work
• current management experience that includes budget, personnel, and work environment responsibility
• experience working with children and youth issues
• experience working in a politically governed organization
• good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

It is advantageous if you have experience working with

• children and youth issues in Stockholm City
• experience of authority exercise within children and youth
• experience working with young offenders and crime victims
• city-wide issues.

As a manager with us, you need to be goal-oriented, positive, and courageous. You are communicative and easily create relationships and collaborate both internally and externally. You have strategic thinking, can prioritize based on what a situation requires, and consider the best interests of the entire operation. Through trust, you inspire a sense of shared responsibility and participation. You are clear regarding both assignments and expectations for results.

We place great importance on personal qualities, motivation, and commitment to the position.

Warmly welcome to apply for the position of unit manager with us!

We see diversity as enriching and welcome all applicants.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for the role. In assessing your application, we will only base it on your CV and a number of questions you will be asked to answer when applying for the position. We ask that you respond concretely and succinctly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

In this recruitment process, psychological tests will be used. Stockholm City works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competencies and thus counteracting discrimination.