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About the workplace

We are looking for a new colleague, an HR specialist, who wants to work with a wide variety of tasks within the entire HR field.
The Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI) is an expert authority working for safe, efficient, and sustainable construction and sustainable use of land and natural resources. Our tasks include preventing landslides, collapses, and coastal erosion. SGI is also working on developing new methods for remediating contaminated areas. SGI is part of the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise and has about 100 employees. The main office is located in Linköping, with offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.

We offer you
We offer you a socially important mission, exciting and developing tasks with a modern view on competence development, as well as a pleasant workplace with engaged and happy employees. As a government authority, most of our employment conditions are linked to the central government agreement, but we also have some specific employment conditions.
We offer generous vacation days, the possibility to work remotely to some extent, flexible working hours, wellness benefits, and more.

Job responsibilities

The HR unit is responsible for driving and developing the strategic and operational HR work within the authority. We provide flexible and qualified service to the organization in areas such as terms of employment, competence supply, salary formation, work environment, and collaboration with our trade unions. Our mission is characterized by a changing workday and a constant need to develop and simplify our working methods, which is why we see collaboration within the unit and the authority as a crucial factor.

You will work with HR support both operationally and strategically and are expected to handle many different issues during a workday, both high and low.

The job includes, among other things, the following tasks

• strategic and operational competence supply work focusing on recruitment, competence development, on- and off-boarding,

• systematic work environment efforts,

• rehabilitation efforts,

• employee support in terms of employment conditions,

• management support in labor law and employment condition issues,

• issues related to payroll management and overall HR administration,

• development of HR unit routines and processes.

Qualifications

• relevant academic background with a degree at least at the bachelor's level in human resources and labor science, or similar education that the employer deems equivalent for the position,

• very good experience of qualified work with competence supply, from recruitment to termination, work environment and rehabilitation, as well as labor law issues,

• very good administrative ability and handling of HR issues,

• experience and good ability to assess people.

The position requires good language skills in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

Meritorious for the position is:

• good experience of working with recruitment tools and payroll systems, as well as the Office package,

• experience of working with salary-related issues towards, for example, an external actor such as the Swedish Service Center,

• experience of HR work within the public sector.

You are solution-focused with very good analytical skills and work in a structured, efficient manner with a holistic view. Your working style is characterized by a positive view of people and a highly developed ability to collaborate respectfully and with high integrity. Since the work involves many internal contacts and also to some extent external, a high social competence with good communication skills and an outgoing working style is required. We expect you to have a supportive, pedagogical, and professional approach. The ability to work both independently and in a group is a given for this position. You enjoy simplifying and improving processes and routines.

In the selection process, great importance will be placed on your personal suitability. To be able to work with us, you must share the state's common value base, https://www.sgi.se/sv/om-sgi/sa-arbetar-vi/vardegrund-och-kompass/ (https://www.sgi.se/sv/om-sgi/sa-arbetar-vi/vardegrund-och-kompass/)

The position belongs to the HR unit, which together with the units for Communication, Finance, and IT constitutes the Operational Support department. The position may start with a probationary employment. You report to the HR manager, but your supervisor is the head of the Operational Support department.