Committee Secretary to Stenungsund Municipality

Stenungsund Municipality is an expanding coastal municipality with approximately 27,800 inhabitants, a strong business community, residential areas close to the sea, and good communication opportunities. The municipality has a well-developed cultural and association life as well as good conditions for outdoor activities and recreation. Wholeness, openness, participation, and transparency are the municipality's guiding principles.

The municipality has an alternative committee organization where the municipal executive board and its committees are the main political bodies in addition to the municipal council and mandatory committees.

The municipality is organized into an administration with four sectors. The support functions sector includes, among other things, municipality-wide specialists, finance, personnel, communication, administration and digitization, property, and service. The mission of the support functions is to facilitate the municipality's sectors to focus on their operations.

As a committee secretary, you will work within the support functions sector in the Administration and Digitization function where the secretariat and supervisory authority are included. The secretariat unit is a support function whose area of responsibility spans all sectors.

The secretariat is responsible for qualified municipal central administration in the form of information management, archives, legal matters, municipal insurance, elections, committee administration, and support for administration and elected officials. Within the secretariat unit, 9 people work, including municipal secretaries, lawyers, committee secretaries, insurance advisors, archivists, and registrars.

The team you will be part of is characterized by joy at work, quality awareness, and professionalism. Trust, confidence, and collaboration are key words within our unit. We share and help each other to succeed in our mission.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a committee secretary, you have a varied job in the midst of the political process. You are a key person and the natural link between elected officials and civil servants. In addition to secretarial duties and administration of authority committees, committees, and councils, you are the election coordinator and responsible for election work. In the role of election coordinator, you recruit and train polling station staff, maintain contact with the election authority, plan, and coordinate the implementation of elections.

As a committee secretary, you are also consulted on questions from elected officials, civil servants, and residents. Together with other secretaries, you quality review decision-making materials and provide advice to case handlers and managers on matters concerning political processing of cases. You are also involved in developing, streamlining, and quality assuring routines and processes. The assignment also involves some work with system administration and registry.

Employment form: Temporary position until January 31, 2026

QUALIFICATIONS

You have completed an academic education in one of the fields of law, political science, social sciences, public administration, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. You have good knowledge of the laws and regulations that govern public operations.

It is meritorious if you have experience working as an election coordinator, with committee administration, and other qualified administrative work within a politically governed organization.

We are looking for someone who is communicative, service-oriented, orderly, has a good sense of responsibility, collaboration, and initiative, is used to taking responsibility, and can work both independently and with others. You have a great interest and understanding of political processes and societal issues. You are accustomed to working in digital environments and have a very good ability to express yourself in Swedish both orally and in writing.

Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

OTHER

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore we welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

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