Vacant job

Job Responsibilities

Our environmental development leader will be on parental leave for just over a year.

Therefore, we are looking for you!

As the environmental development leader in the social administration Centrum, you will coordinate the overall environmental work for the entire administration. You will play an important role in adapting the city's ambitious climate goals to the social administration Centrum and maintaining the administration's management system in the environmental area.

You will work with goals and activities, processes, investigations, and also training in the environmental field. There are currently established routines, governing documents, and an environmental management system, but you need to maintain quality and, if necessary, also improve the processes.

The management of the administration decides each year on a number of activities in the environmental area that should be implemented and followed up in annual reports and oral presentations.

You will belong to the department for Staff and Communication and report to the department head. The department has 22 employees who are specialists in their fields, such as communication, IT, security, and committee administration. Within the administration, you will also collaborate closely with functions such as purchasing coordinators, property managers, and property development leaders. You will collaborate with development leaders primarily in other social administrations but will also be part of city-wide networks.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a relevant university education and experience working with environmental and climate issues. Preferably, you have previous experience working in a politically governed organization.

As a development leader, you take responsibility for your assignments and drive the work forward to achieve good results together with others. You have a responsive way of collaborating with others, good social skills, and are ambitious in driving environmental issues forward. Furthermore, it is important that you have the ability to analyze, see connections, and propose solutions to complex questions and problems. You should be able to write well, both investigations and follow-ups, and also have experience training others.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

The position is a temporary contract from March 1, 2026, to the end of August 2027.

We warmly welcome your application!

Other

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee of the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you have the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.

As we have already made decisions regarding the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly ask not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

About Us

We in the social administration Centrum work every day to ensure that residents in central Gothenburg have a better everyday life. Our assignments in the social area are many and range from authority exercises to promotional and preventive measures. We work locally but also have operations aimed at the whole city to meet our residents' needs. We want to create an equitable and effective social service with a focus on early interventions for a more equal city.

If you are looking for goals and meaning in your journey and want to work in central Gothenburg - join us!