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Innovation Leader

Do you have experience in innovation management and want to help build our new unit for Innovation, AI, and digital transformation? Then we want to hear from you! At the Red Cross, you have the opportunity to influence and develop our common future in an organization that values humanity and innovation. Working at the Red Cross is much more than just a regular job. No one can do everything, but you can do more than most.

About the Position

Your mission is to build innovation capacity within the Red Cross. Your tasks include:

• Leading the work to develop innovation methods and processes for the Swedish Red Cross.
• Communicating knowledge about innovation management within the organization through communication and training efforts, coaching and mentoring both leaders and employees.
• Acting as a process leader for innovation processes at both strategic and practical levels, i.e., both capacity-building initiatives and strategic innovation projects.
• Establishing and coordinating processes for innovation calls at the Swedish Red Cross.
• Developing external partnerships and externally funded initiatives related to innovation.
• Providing advice and acting as support to others within the organization regarding innovation.
• Monitoring and contributing to the development in the field of innovation based on SRK's experiences and needs, as well as gathering inspiration, knowledge, methods, and tools.

We Are Looking For

• Someone who sees opportunities and focuses on benefits, sets engaging goals and actionable plans, and involves everyone around them in the work.
• Someone with many years of documented experience in innovation processes and building an innovation culture in organizations, preferably both theoretical knowledge and practical experience of working in an innovation team.
• Someone who is an expert in innovation methods and has preferably worked with strategic foresight and capacity development in general.
• Someone with experience in developing strategic partnerships and funding for innovation ideas.
• Someone who expresses themselves well in both Swedish and English, in both speech and writing.

Key qualities to thrive and succeed in this role: strategic and driven, creates motivation and progress, communicative and builds trust-based relationships, is pedagogical, helpful, and generous.

Additional Information

The position is located in the unit for Innovation, AI, and digital transformation and is a permanent full-time position with a six-month probationary period. Start date as soon as possible.

We offer a flexible work environment with a 36.5-hour workweek and the possibility to work from home up to 2 days a week. The intended location is at our office in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, but we also have offices in Malmö, Gothenburg, and Umeå. Some travel, primarily within Sweden, is included in the assignment.

Our Recruitment Process

We welcome your application by April 23, but selection is ongoing, and the position may be filled before the application deadline has passed. The selection questions in this ad will form the basis for our initial selection, which will then be supplemented by your uploaded CV.

If you have questions about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Åsa Ander asa.ander@redcross.se (mailto:asa.ander@redcross.se) or HR recruitment officer Anna Öhrner anna.ohrner@redcross.se (mailto:anna.ohrner@redcross.se).

The Swedish Red Cross strives to be an inclusive organization with employees who contribute to diversity in both perspectives, experience, and background. We believe this makes us more relevant. Therefore, we are happy to recruit individuals with different ethnic and social backgrounds, gender identity and expression, faith, age, disabilities, and sexual orientation.

Our recruitment process begins with an initial selection based on an established requirement profile and is followed by interviews and, in some cases, online tests, work samples, as well as background checks and reference checks.

As the Swedish Red Cross is part of the "Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct" to protect our sector from sexual abuse, we ask specific questions about this to your references. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanctions lists.

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