A Job That Makes a Difference for Our Youth!

Do you enjoy working with young people and want to contribute to their meaningful leisure time? Do you want to help create conditions for a developing, safe, drug-free, and pleasant environment? Then you could be the leisure leader we are looking for!

Welcome to Us!

In Krokom municipality, we have leisure centers in four locations: Föllinge, Änge, Ås, and Krokom. We are currently in great need of staff at several of our centers. We are looking for both those who want to work permanently at 25% and those who are interested in hourly employment and can work as needed at one or more of our leisure centers. Please indicate in your application if you are interested in a part-time position or an hourly position.

Within culture and leisure, 17 permanent employees work, but we also have project and hourly employees. Our needs may vary, and we therefore keep the application open year-round. Currently, we are running leisure center activities in Ås, Krokom, Änge, and Föllinge. Working with youth is both fun, varied, and developing!

The culture and leisure department is part of the growth area within the municipal management administration. All activities within the growth area have a responsibility to contribute to sustainable growth in Krokom municipality. This includes departments such as business, property, planning and traffic, waste management, water and sewage, and learning centers.

The municipal management administration supports three committees: the municipal council, the building and environmental committee, and the community building committee. The administration employs about 135 staff and is divided into the areas of staff, building and environment, and community building and growth.

An Evening as a Leisure Leader at the Leisure Center

Working as a leisure leader at a leisure center is varied and includes both operational and administrative work. The leisure centers are open in the evenings from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, and the target group is primarily middle and high school students.

You are responsible for planning, running, and developing the leisure center's activities in collaboration with local associations, schools, and other organizations. You are an important link between the youth and various agencies. In your work, you also have close cooperation with the municipality's youth culture coordinator.

You are part of a team that works to reach as many young people as possible and provide them with meaningful leisure time. You work from a promoting perspective, offering children and youth a meaningful and activity-based leisure time that is based on participation and influence.

Your Competence

You are passionate about working with the leisure center's target group and want to create a developing, safe, drug-free, and pleasant environment. You have good collaboration skills and find it easy to connect with both young and old. You enjoy taking initiative and feel responsible for developing the activities.

Requirements

• You have good experience working with children and youth.
• You are a trained leisure leader or have another education and/or experience that the employer finds equivalent or relevant.
• We require a criminal record check.

Meritorious

• You are comfortable working in a promoting and preventive manner, and you have awareness of norm-critical and democratic work.

Other Information

Our ambition is to keep our leisure centers open two evenings a week from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Therefore, we are looking for both those who can work occasional shifts and those willing to work permanently at 25%.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have decided on recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no contact from salespeople.

Greetings from Your Future Boss

Take the chance to contribute to an active and rewarding leisure time for all residents of Krokom municipality. We look forward to your application!

Mikael Jonsson, Head of Culture and Leisure

Contact Person for the Position

Louise Öhnstedt, Public Health and Culture Coordinator
0640-162 72
[email protected]

Mikael Jonsson, Head of Culture and Leisure
0640-163 26
[email protected]

Union representatives can be reached through the municipality's customer center, 0640-161 00

Welcome with your application!

Krokom, the municipality in the heart of Jämtland

The boundaries of Krokom municipality stretch from the shores of Storsjö in the south to the vast and wild mountains in the north, and in the east, the great forests of the northern inland begin. Here live over 15,700 residents, in the heart of Jämtland County, with access to good communication to the rest of Sweden. There are fantastic opportunities for a rich cultural and outdoor life. People move here, and here they want to stay, because here life can truly take place.

The municipality is part of the Sámi administrative area, which means that we work to strengthen the Sámi language, to make the culture visible, and to give the Sámi influence.