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Are you a confident leader with a strategic perspective and a good ability to see your part in the whole? Are you motivated by working proactively and helping others to develop and grow? Then you should apply for the position of group manager in the area of personnel security. Welcome with your application!

Together, we protect Sweden.

Location: Stockholm

Application deadline: 2025-04-02

Reference number: 2025–4228

This is your mission

In the role of group manager in the area of security and security protection agreements, you will have operational and methodological development responsibility as well as personnel and work environment responsibility for employees in personnel security. The group works with requirements setting, follow-up, and training on security protection issues in all security protection areas that arise during exposure to security-sensitive activities. You lead and coordinate the group's work at a direct level, ensuring that the group's resources are used in the best way to achieve the organization's and authority's goals.

Main responsibilities:

• Continuously work to develop the group to optimize development and learning while ensuring a good work environment
• Belong to the unit's management team and actively participate in strategically and long-term driving the entire operation forward
• Maintain and develop collaboration with both internal functions within the Security Police and external partners
• The role may involve tasks that require external representation of the Security Police
• Lead and distribute work within the area of exposure to security-sensitive activities/security protection agreements

Your placement is at the headquarters in Solna, remote work is not possible at this time. Domestic and international travel may occur.

The qualifications we are looking for

Requirements:

• Police degree or other relevant academic education, or work experience that the employer considers equivalent
• Long-standing experience of personnel responsibility and work environment responsibility at a direct level
• Driver's license (B)
• Very good ability to communicate in Swedish, both spoken and written
• Good ability to communicate in English, both spoken and written
• Good knowledge and experience of security protection work

The position requires Swedish citizenship.

You who are applying may also have competencies that add breadth and complementary perspectives. If you can contribute with one or more of the following, it is meritorious:

• Good knowledge of the Security Police's internal regulations
• Experience in methodological and development work
• Experience and knowledge of security protection agreements/exposure to security-sensitive activities
• Experience in conducting training in physical security, information security, and personnel security
• Understanding and experience in interpreting regulations and current legislation in security protection areas

This is the colleague we are looking for

As a manager at the Security Police, you exercise leadership in accordance with our leadership policy. Managers and leaders are expected to promote a holistic view, decisiveness, good relationships, and learning in taking responsibility for the authority's mission and results.

This means, among other things, that you have the ability to see your own operations in a larger context and take responsibility for your part of the whole. You prioritize and make the necessary decisions and adjust them based on changing conditions. In your role as a manager, you act as a role model.

You are engaged and unpretentious in your leadership and create good conditions for your employees to perform and develop in their roles, while also supporting other leaders. You coach, support, challenge, and provide feedback with personal care. You have a good ability to communicate, collaborate, and build networks. Furthermore, you are attentive and reflect on your own leadership, share knowledge and experiences, and motivate others to do the same.

You are goal and results-driven and have the ability to switch between planned and event-driven activities, and you have the ability to independently take initiative, prioritize, and drive issues. You act on problems that arise and remove obstacles.

The Security Police places high demands on security and confidentiality, therefore we expect you to have a high security awareness.

Employment conditions

Swedish citizenship is a requirement, as employment at the Security Police involves placement in a security class. Employment also requires a satisfactory result in the security clearance with background check, conducted in accordance with the Security Protection Act.

This is a permanent position that begins with a six-month probationary period. We apply individual salary setting. Employment comes with an obligation to be placed in a war situation.

On our website, www.sakerhetspolisen.se, you can read more about what it is like to work with us and about our benefits.

How to contact us

You are welcome to call the recruiting manager at phone number 010-568 76 20. For information about the recruitment process, contact the HR unit at phone number 010-568 70 06.

Union representatives: Police Union, phone number 010-568 70 03, SACO, phone number 010-568 70 04, and ST, phone number 010-568 70 02.

How to apply

Applications are made via our website, www.sakerhetspolisen.se

Applications must be received no later than 2025-04-02.

Apply by attaching your CV (in this recruitment process, we do not wish for a personal letter) and answering the selection questions below. The questions are based on the requirement profile for this recruitment and your answers will form the basis for the selection process. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete. It is therefore important that you respond clearly and thoroughly to the questions and do not refer to other documents, e.g., CV.

Selection and interviews may occur on an ongoing basis.

Other information

You should not disclose that you have applied for a position at the Security Police to anyone other than those directly involved. This is because we have positions that are subject to confidentiality.

In our recruitments, we use psychological tests.

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