Chief of Guardianship Authority

Kristianstad Municipality has over 7,000 employees who make a difference in people's everyday lives, every day. Here you will find employees who are passionate about welfare and want to turn ideas into reality. Kristianstad Municipality offers several different career paths so that you can develop throughout your working life.

Are you passionate about leading and motivating others? Are you a good leader with experience in regulatory activities and want to lead our guardianship authority into the future? Are you a good communicator who sees a cohesive guardianship administration for four municipalities as a challenge? Then this is a job for you!

The Guardianship Authority processes, investigates, and makes decisions in cases concerning guardians, legal representatives, and administrators. The agency also works on reviewing accounts and recruiting substitutes, and has many external contacts with the public, courts, and our substitutes. It is a responsible and socially important operation that requires legal understanding.

The Guardianship Authority currently consists of 13 employees who handle cases for Kristianstad, Hörby, Osby, and Östra Göinge municipalities. Collaboration with the four municipalities has existed for about a year and the work is still developing. One of the keys to successful cooperation is good communication, and there are established forums for this communication. As the head of the operation, you report to the Guardianship Committee, including preparation and cases that the committee decides on.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The Guardianship Office works with the processing of regulatory cases and you as a unit manager should support and develop the operation. You lead the operation and have overall responsibility for communication with all interested parties, including the three municipalities we collaborate with. Your assignment is in constant development to create an efficient and legally secure process for the guardianship authority.

You lead and distribute work within the unit, which includes being responsible for competence development and competence supply. Development of routines and working methods, follow-up and dialogue with external parties, as well as political case management in the Guardianship Committee are other tasks.

Being a manager in Kristianstad Municipality means being responsible for and developing operations, employees, and finances. Our managers should work with a holistic view, be development-oriented, and communicative with a focus on goals and results. With the citizen in focus, you lead, motivate, and develop your employees to create added value for Kristianstad Municipality together. As a manager in Kristianstad Municipality, you are offered leadership development, leadership support, and structured follow-up of your managerial assignment.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is driven and has a good sense of law and sensitive matters. You are a good leader who is clear, communicative, and action-oriented. Furthermore, you are attentive and have an easy time understanding complex issues. You have a holistic view, are structured, good at prioritizing, and can assess the importance of a matter, and you are responsible. As a person, you have a good ability to build relationships and trust. We want you to have understanding, knowledge, and willingness to implement operational development and digitization.

You have a university degree in law, social work, economics, or another education that the employer deems equivalent. We want you to have managerial experience as well as experience from regulatory activities. If you also have experience in guardianship activities, that is an advantage. We also prefer that you have good knowledge of legislation relevant to the assignment. Of course, you handle digital IT tools in your daily work and can express yourself well in both speech and writing as communication and documentation are a natural part of the tasks.

OTHER

The Municipal Executive Office leads, coordinates, follows up, and develops the municipality's operations from a holistic perspective. Here you will find operations such as finance, HR, IT, citizen center, and strategic issues, as well as all common services with cleaning, meal, and transport operations in the administration. The work of the Municipal Executive Office should contribute to a positive development for everyone who lives, works, runs a business, studies, or visits our municipality. The Municipal Council provides the framework and directives.

In Kristianstad Municipality, we apply full-time for all, which means that all employees with permanent employment have the right to full-time and part-time is an option. We also apply smoke-free working hours.

If you have protected personal information, please submit your application by mail marked with the title and reference number or leave your application at Rådhus Skåne. If you have questions, you can reach us via the citizen center at 044-13 50 00.

If you have questions about how to submit your application, contact the system's support at 0771-69 36 93 or via the link https://zero.comaround.com/sv-se/ (https://zero.comaround.com/sv-se/).