Change Leader at Welfare Gävle

Gävle municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with good opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you have close access 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 employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, young people, the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future professions that both challenge and develop, and you will work on things that truly matter. Together, we make Gävle safer!

Within Welfare Gävle, our workplace is located at Jägargatan 2. About 80 employees and five unit managers work here. We work in teams and sit in an open office landscape with access to several meeting rooms and conference rooms. The building has a café and a reception. All work is done on-site, and our customers come here. There are good bus connections, and many beautiful bike paths.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want to work with a coaching approach and are passionate about seeing people grow? Do you want to contribute to individuals achieving development, stability, independence, and self-sufficiency? Perfect, then you might be just the person we are looking for!

Your Role

As a Change Leader, your mission is to support individuals who, for various reasons, cannot support themselves and therefore apply for financial assistance. Together with the individual, you work to create pathways towards an independent life with self-sufficiency through work, studies, or other compensation.

Through active interventions and motivational and change work, you create conditions for the individual to take the next step in their development journey. The work consists of motivation-enhancing and guiding interventions both individually and in groups. Collaboration with colleagues and other relevant actors is of great importance to succeed in the mission.

You are responsible for a number of clients, and your mission is to drive the process together with the individual to achieve the goal of self-sufficiency. You will work closely with your colleagues in a high-performing and tight team within your unit. You will also collaborate closely with colleagues in the unit for financial assistance who handle clients' applications for financial support.

Your mission is to drive an individualized and goal-oriented process together with the client. Through coaching and conversations, you provide the tools and insights that the client needs to gain control over their future and achieve their goals.

By exploring the client's resources and identifying potential barriers, an individualized self-sufficiency plan towards work, education, or other compensation is created. You will support the client in developing and strengthening their skills and knowledge, ensuring that the client receives interventions regarding their health and social needs in collaboration with other services in the municipality, region, and state. Together, you will also explore various educational opportunities, find suitable internships or workplaces, or other compensation in collaboration with healthcare.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with an academic degree related to the profession, such as behavioral science, social work, human resources, pedagogy, or another academic degree that the employer considers relevant for the position. We see it as meritorious if you have one year of experience in similar work and that you have a B driver's license and driving experience.

To succeed in the role of Change Leader, you have a coaching approach. You have the ability to lead, motivate, and inspire others, helping them to develop and feel good. Your ability to create an open dialogue and adapt your actions based on different situations comes naturally to you, and you build trusting relationships where others feel safe.

Furthermore, you see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient, and use resources to achieve results in the best possible way. You have a high ability to deliver results, both in terms of quality and productivity.

Working in a systematic, methodical, and reliable manner is obvious to you, and as a person, you easily focus on the client's needs and achieve good customer satisfaction.

You are used to giving presentations, lectures, and training, adapting these to the needs and feedback of the target audience.

OTHER

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 competence requirements, it can be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment process, Gävle municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact with media salespeople, recruitment sites, or similar.