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AI Strategist

Are you an AI expert, have you explored the possibilities of everything from automation to generative AI, and are you eager to use your knowledge to help the Red Cross do more and help more? Then we need you! At the Red Cross, you will have the opportunity to influence and develop our shared 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 goal is to develop and streamline the Red Cross by driving increased use of AI. Your responsibilities include:

• Developing strategies and plans for the use of AI within the Red Cross.
• Identifying potential use cases for AI in the various operations of the Swedish Red Cross through innovative approaches, acting as the extended arm of the operations in requirements and implementation of AI.
• Enabling AI by conducting relevant risk assessments and securing the conditions for AI use, owning the management of AI risk including compliance related to AI.
• Acting as product owner for the portfolio of standalone AI solutions, setting the roadmap, initiating and driving the development and procurement of new AI services, and being responsible for their management over time.
• Supporting product owners in IT regarding AI in existing platforms.
• Driving broad use of AI within the organization, offering advice, educating, and serving as support to others on AI issues.
• Monitoring and contributing to the development of AI in civil society and the humanitarian sector based on the experiences and needs of the Swedish Red Cross, as well as gathering inspiration, knowledge, methods, and tools.

We Are Looking For

• Someone who uses generative AI every day and thinks that automation, machine learning, and language models are the best things ever, but you also understand the risks associated with the technology.
• Someone who enjoys navigating the intersection of technology and operations, perhaps you have worked as a product owner or in digital innovation and are used to thinking in terms of needs and benefits, use cases, and digital solutions.
• Someone who likely has a degree in data or systems science and has experience with Microsoft Azure, Copilot, and Power Automate, and can probably read a bit of Python for practical purposes.
• Someone who expresses themselves well in both Swedish and English, in both spoken and written form.

Key qualities: curious, analytical and meticulous, strategic and ambitious, inspires and builds trustful 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 opportunity 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 role.

How We Recruit

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 the recruitment officer HR 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 perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We believe this makes us more relevant. Therefore, we are eager to recruit individuals with diverse ethnic and social backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, beliefs, ages, disabilities, and sexual orientations.

Our recruitment process starts 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 regarding this to your references. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanction lists.

Here you can find contact information for the trade unions represented at our organization. You can also read more about us as an employer on our career page.

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