Crime Prevention Strategist for Gävle Municipality

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal town of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us!

The Governance and Support sector in Gävle is responsible for strategic development at a high level close to politics. Our employees work with the whole and coordinate efforts that are common to all sectors within Gävle Municipality. Together, we make Gävle sustainable and developing!

For many decades, Gävle Municipality has placed great value on conducting good crime prevention work. Since the Act (2023:196) on municipalities' responsibility for crime prevention work came into force in 2023, the municipality has taken an even broader approach to crime prevention efforts. Among other things, a new crime prevention strategy has been adopted, along with new collaboration structures and methodologies. We place great emphasis on ensuring that crime prevention work is cause-oriented and knowledge-based.

The role of Crime Prevention Strategist is located in the Governance and Support Sector within the Security and Preparedness Unit. The unit currently employs a security manager, deputy security manager, preparedness and security strategists, as well as the current crime prevention strategist.

The unit's main task is to strategically support the municipality's operations in security-related issues, but operational tasks also occur.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In your role as a crime prevention strategist, you will be responsible for continuing to develop and coordinate the municipality's crime prevention work. You will bear the primary responsibility for the municipality's overall situation regarding crime, conduct analyses, and hold a central role in the development of the municipality's crime prevention priorities and action planning. You will also be responsible for coordinating crime prevention issues, and the position thus places high demands on your ability to collaborate and build relationships.

An important part of the work as a crime prevention strategist is also to plan and implement knowledge-enhancing initiatives such as training and workshops, as well as to support the municipality's various operations in crime prevention issues.

In the Security and Preparedness Unit, you will have close access to competent and supportive colleagues, who, despite the unit's differing main focuses, are always available to discuss thoughts and ideas. We are a non-prestigious unit that values our community and is happy to support our colleagues when needed, both in small and large matters.

We fully apply trust-based leadership, which means you are given great freedom and responsibility to plan and organize your tasks.

We offer trust-based working hours, as well as generous opportunities for remote work when the position allows.

QUALIFICATIONS

The position of crime prevention strategist places high demands on your ability to lead and drive complex tasks. Therefore, we are looking for someone who is confident in their academic knowledge, has the ability to translate theory into practice, and has an eye for identifying and finding solutions to complex challenges and problems.

To succeed in the position, we also see that you are structured and analytical with the ability to see larger contexts and foresee the long-term consequences of actions, as well as having the ability to work calmly and methodically even in intense situations.

Given the complex nature of the function, we will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Formal Competencies

We are looking for someone with an academic education in criminology or another post-secondary education that the employer deems equivalent. You have good administrative skills and can work in the Office suite as well as handle various technical systems. Furthermore, you have a very good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish and can adapt the message to the intended target audience. You promote collaboration and teamwork and have an easy time motivating and engaging others.

It is meritorious if you have the following experiences:

• Crime prevention work.
• Experience in the justice system.
• Experience of employment in a municipality and/or public administration.
• Experience working with operational development within public operations.

Personal Competencies

We are looking for someone who can prioritize and work efficiently, who smartly uses available resources to achieve the best possible results.

As mentioned earlier, you are a non-prestigious team player who collaborates well with colleagues, citizens, and other stakeholders. With an analytical mind, you see logic and connections in complex information and have the ability to identify long-term solutions.

You have both courage and good judgment when it comes to making decisions and you take responsibility for them. At the same time, you are attentive and act with sensitivity in emerging situations.

Your communication is clear, and you explain decision-making processes in an understandable way. By basing your arguments on facts and acting in a trustworthy manner, you create an open and constructive dialogue.

You value feedback and see it as a natural part of your development, both by giving, seeking, and receiving it constructively.

OTHER

The position is classified in a security class, so a security review with a background check will be conducted before employment.

Service in the municipality's crisis management function may be included.

Service in the municipality's preparedness organization (official on standby) may be included.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally.

If you are applying for a part-time position with us, there is a decision within Gävle Municipality that allows you, as a permanent employee, to request to work full-time. Such a request may mean that you may need to perform other tasks than your regular ones.

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it may be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request not to be contacted by media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.