Temporary Field Secretary at Alvesta Municipality

Alvesta Municipality, with approximately 20,000 inhabitants — the center of southern Sweden — integrates local living with global opportunities. A position built on high-quality municipal services, a successful business community, and a good mix of urban and rural areas. Add to that a strong infrastructure with railways, airports, and a well-developed road network, and you will understand why Alvesta Municipality is the right choice.

Big enough for ideas to be born and developed
Small enough for everyone to be seen and appreciated, with short decision-making paths

In the Alvesta municipal group, we have about 2,000 employees across various professions who work every day to make a difference for our residents. Our shared values are: “Together we create a better everyday life for our residents and ourselves as employees. We develop through good meetings and open dialogue. We achieve this through our values, which are based on “Participation, Engagement, and Trust.” Our focus is to create the best possible municipal service for those we serve: residents, entrepreneurs, and visitors. Alvesta Municipality operates based on a governance model that emphasizes trust-based management and governance with a focus on Agenda 2030. Do you want to join us on our exciting journey towards sustainable community development?

JOB DESCRIPTION

As one of our field workers is going on parental leave, we are now looking for a temporary field secretary. As a field worker, you will work proactively, providing advice and support to children and youth. You will be in environments where children and youth are present. The goal is to intervene early to break destructive antisocial behavior among children and youth in Alvesta Municipality. You will need to implement interventions at the community, group, and individual levels, and the entire Alvesta Municipality will be your area of work.

Field workers build relationships and proactively engage by getting to know children and youth in different areas based on the conditions of those areas.

In Alvesta Municipality, we have area groups in Vislanda, Moheda, Alvesta older, and Alvesta younger, aimed at creating local situational pictures and based on these, proposing preventive and promotional measures and implementing them. As a field worker, you are part of the area groups and play an important role in coordinating interventions.

The meetings with children, youth, and parents are based on voluntariness, trust, and respect to early detect any potential needs for support and, if necessary, guide them to the right contacts and interventions. In this role, accessibility and continuity are important for both residents and partners. Therefore, the work takes place both during the day, in the evenings, and on weekends. This also means that you will largely be out where children, youth, and parents are, which means that no day is the same, and meetings can occur in many different places, both physical and digital.

Examples of tasks:

Preventive, health-promoting, and proactive work in child and youth environments.
Interventions on demand, for example in schools or with associations based on identified needs in the area groups.
Organizing and participating in parent and association meetings.
Advice and support conversations with youth, guardians, and other significant individuals, for example regarding alcohol/drugs, crime, mental health, life choices.
Working with structured programs for youth, with various themes such as friendship, violence, consent, alcohol/drugs, life choices.

Part of your position will be scheduled for evenings and weekends.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with an academic degree in social pedagogy, a degree in social work, or another relevant higher education in the field. You are good at establishing good contacts, are trustworthy, and have the ability to identify children and youth who are at risk. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. We expect you to be a secure person with good personal maturity and to contribute to a good working environment. You are expected to have the ability to collaborate with colleagues as well as other internal and external actors. Furthermore, you have a good ability to work independently and are flexible and resilient in your work. We are looking for someone who can contribute to equal treatment and create an inclusive environment in their workplace. Experience in fieldwork, IFO, schools, or related areas is an advantage. You need to have a strong interest in developing our preventive and health-promoting work. A manual B driver's license is required.