Vacant job

Are you an organized and structured person who thrives in a social and supportive role with a strong focus on collaboration? The Swedish Security Service is now looking for driven and engaged staff officers with a good ability to see and understand the needs of the organization. Are you the right person for the job? Welcome with your application.

Together we protect Sweden.

Location: Stockholm

Application deadline: 2025-03-30

Reference number: 2025-1481

This is your mission

As a staff officer, you will drive and be responsible for unit and department-wide issues and handle cases. Your mission includes preparing decision-making materials, managing referrals, and producing summaries, planning documents, agendas, and follow-ups, etc. The work involves internal administration and high demands for collaboration within the authority. There is a strong focus on governance, management, follow-up, and control within the department and managing and coordinating a variety of issues over time.

The work may also, in some cases, involve coordinating the departments' needs for prerequisite-creating measures such as recruitment, competence planning, space needs, contingency planning, and information management.

Since your work involves several parties and many parts of the organization, collaboration and cooperation are central to your role and a prerequisite for succeeding in your mission. You have an interest, a willingness, and the ability to support the organization and create networks with good contacts.

Your placement is at the headquarters in Solna, and the work is performed on-site, which means that you cannot work remotely. Travel within Sweden may occur.

These are the qualifications we are looking for

Only those who meet the requirements below can be considered for the position.

Requirements:

• Academic education deemed relevant for the position by the Swedish Security Service or police degree
• At least two years of relevant work experience within the last five years, e.g., in coordination, preparation, or development
• Very good ability to communicate in Swedish, both orally and in writing
• Good ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing

The position requires Swedish citizenship.

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

• Experience from working in a staff or with management support
• Experience from working at an authority
• Experience in budget work and financial follow-up
• Experience in coordinating prerequisite-creating measures, such as local planning, recruitment, and competence planning

This is the colleague we are looking for

We place great importance on your personal qualities and are looking for someone who is positive and contributes to a good working atmosphere in the group. You are communicative and attentive with a good ability to understand needs and capture ideas.

To thrive as a staff officer, you need to be service-oriented and accommodating in your approach. Through your good collaboration skills, you create meaningful relationships based on trust and confidence.

You have an understanding of the operational conditions of the organization and a good ability to create structure and quality in a complex environment.

As a person, you are meticulous and organized and find it easy to plan, prioritize, and drive your work forward, even during times of high workload. You are solution-oriented and can easily handle several parallel tasks simultaneously.

You are flexible and can quickly change focus and tasks, and you have a good ability to switch between planned and event-driven activities. You are engaged, proactive, and can work both independently and in a group, and you enjoy collaborating and working together with different professional roles within the authority.

The Swedish Security Service has high demands for security and confidentiality, therefore we expect you to have a high security awareness.

How to contact us

You are welcome to call the recruiting manager at +46 10-568 7166. For information about the recruitment process, contact the HR unit at +46 10-568 70 06.

Union representatives: Police Union, +46 10-568 70 03, SACO, +46 10-568 70 04, and ST, +46 10-568 70 02.

How to apply

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

Applications must be received by 2025-03-30.

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 requirements 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. Therefore, it is important that you respond clearly and thoroughly to the questions and do not refer to other documents, e.g., your CV.

Please paste and answer the selection questions in a separate document (pdf or word) that you send in with your application.

Selection questions

Do you have Swedish citizenship?

Do you have an academic degree or police degree? If yes, what education do you have?

Do you have at least two years of relevant work experience within the last five years, e.g., in coordination, preparation, or development? If yes, please describe your experience and the time period.

Do you have a very good ability to communicate in Swedish, both orally and in writing?

Do you have a good ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing?

Do you have experience from working in a staff or with management support? If yes, please describe your experience.

Do you have experience from working at an authority? If yes, which authority? What were your tasks and job title?

Do you have experience in budget work and financial follow-up? If yes, please describe your experience.

Do you have experience in coordinating prerequisite-creating measures, such as local planning, recruitment, and competence planning? If yes, please describe your experience.

Other information

You should not disclose that you have applied for a position at the Swedish Security Service 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.

We have already made our choices of advertising channels. Therefore, we kindly ask for no calls from recruitment companies or ad sellers.