Project Manager for Shanazi Heroines in Gävle

The municipality of Gävle offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city 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 employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, youth, and 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!

The municipality of Gävle has a zero vision against violence, and the work against honor-related violence and oppression is one of several prioritized areas in the municipality. As part of the work against honor-related violence and oppression, projects with Shanazi Heroines in Gävle will be developed. The project targets young girls and will be based on the perspectives of girls and women. There is already an existing program with Shanazi Heroes aimed at young boys.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Do you want to work on a project based on equality, gender equality, and the right to a life free from violence and oppression? Then apply for the position of project manager for Shanazi Heroines in Gävle!

The project manager for Shanazi Heroines in Gävle will work in a role model project aimed at young girls in high school.

In your role, you will lead, educate, and empower young girls to encourage them to see, understand, and act by becoming Shanazi Heroines.

The Heroines will serve as positive role models and ambassadors for gender equality, human rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and democracy, thereby working against honor-related violence and oppression.

As a project manager, you will work together with the coordinator for Shanazi Heroes to lead and develop the activities with the groups that will become Shanazi Heroines. You will be introduced to and trained in the Shanazi Heroes method, which you will then shape and adapt to the Shanazi Heroines project. You will also receive both supervision time and support from an existing project organization.

In your work, you will plan, document, and follow up on the project. You will initiate new contacts and create trusting relationships. You will drive the work forward and report to the unit manager at the prevention unit as well as to the steering group and working group.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a higher education degree in social work, behavioral sciences, social sciences, or pedagogy, or another relevant field as assessed by the employer.

You have experience working with children and youth and knowledge of gender equality and honor-related violence and oppression. By having distanced yourself from such oppression, you have a good understanding of the vulnerability of girls and women and knowledge of how violence and oppression can manifest.

You are comfortable speaking in front of groups and can lead others. If you have previously led projects, groups, or activities, that is an advantage. You can express yourself well in both spoken and written Swedish. If you speak Arabic, Somali, Dari, Kurdish, Turkish, or Tigrinya, that is an advantage for the position.

You are confident in giving presentations, lectures, and training, and you adapt these to the needs of the target group. You plan and organize your work, set goals, organize resources, follow up, and complete activities.

In social contexts, you take the initiative and create trusting relationships and have an unpretentious approach in your collaboration with others. You have an understanding of others' situations, listen, and show consideration.

Great importance is placed on personal suitability and your knowledge of and understanding of gender equality, democracy, and human rights.

You have an unpretentious approach in your collaboration with colleagues, citizens, and stakeholders.

Please describe in your application how your knowledge and experience related to honor-related violence and oppression can be valuable for Shanazi Heroines.

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Union representatives

• Sara Lasell Akademikerförbundet SSR, sara.lasell@gavle.se
• Lena Arnberg Vision, lena.arnberg@gavle.se
• Ann-Sofie Nyberg Johansson Akavia, ann-sofie.johansson_nyberg@gavle.se

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle municipality and to facilitate 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.

The municipality of Gävle belongs to the Finnish administrative area. If you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request not to be contacted by media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.