Operations Controller with Special Education Competence

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 you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Northern Inner City district consists of the central parts of Stockholm, Norrmalm, and Östermalm. Here we work to provide our 155,000 residents with the best services in areas such as preschool, social services, elderly care, and urban development. We welcome you who want to make a difference for the residents of the Northern Inner City.

Welcome to us

The Northern Inner City preschool department consists of 61 preschools and five open preschools led by seven principals and has a total of approximately 950 employees.

The department is led by a department head who is assisted by a support unit. The unit will in the future consist of two operations controllers, a coordinator, and two case officers. The department support is led by a unit manager and works closely with the department head.

We are now looking for an operations controller with special education competence for the preschool department's support unit.

We offer

With us, you will have the opportunity to take on a new and exciting position focused on our youngest citizens. The position involves close collaboration with the preschool department's management team and the special educators of the preschools, while also being part of a large administration with much expertise and collaboration.

Here you are offered a good working environment with favorable conditions to combine private life and work life, flexible hours, and the possibility of vacation exchange. The administration conducts active health promotion work and offers wellness grants.

Read more about your benefits as an employee of the City of Stockholm here (#).

Your role

In the role of operations controller and special educator, you will work closely with the preschool's management team and serve as support for principals and other special educators. Based on the City of Stockholm's program for child health, you will lead the work and coordinate efforts to ensure health-promoting learning environments and compensatory measures in the administration's preschools.

We are very proud of the department's focus on child health and are looking for someone who can contribute additional expertise and new perspectives to continue developing this work. You will be an important player in establishing a cohesive, systematic, and equitable strategy for working with children's health, learning, and development in the administration's preschools. To succeed in this, you will work closely with the preschool's management team and support and lead principals and special educators in the promoting and preventive work with health-promoting learning environments and compensatory measures.

The role also includes:

• managing authority contacts, responding to referrals and comments
• shaping decision-making materials regarding special support
• supporting and developing a structured and systematic quality work within the preschools

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• Special education training
• Several years of experience as a special educator in preschool or school
• Experience leading others in work, e.g., as a manager, coordinator, team leader, or project manager
• Good knowledge of relevant legislation such as the Education Act, Local Government Act, and are used to supporting others in such matters
• Good digital competence
• Very good ability to express yourself fluently in Swedish in both speech and writing

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience leading projects, qualified investigations, systematic quality work, and operational development at an overarching administrative level or equivalent
• Experience with budget work

We are looking for a confident leader who takes initiative and independently drives the work forward. You are proactive, structured, and a "doer" who does not hesitate to act and make decisions. You are clear in your communication, stand behind your decisions, and have an analytical mindset that allows you to see the whole and make well-founded assessments. You are a person who likes to take on challenges and has the ability to handle complex and broader issues. You are an initiator who sees opportunities and takes responsibility for driving improvements. At the same time, you value collaboration and teamwork, where everyone works towards a common goal – the best for the children.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will base it on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when applying for the position. There will also be tests as part of the assessment during the selection process.

The recruitment process will then consist of interviews, possibly work samples, and reference checks. The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.