Vacant job

Salem Municipality is a vibrant and safe place where nature and green areas are always close at hand. Here, over 17,000 residents live, and just over 1,000 businesses operate. In Salem, the municipality's activities are developed in close dialogue with the residents.

The municipality has nearly 1,000 employees, and our operations are permeated by our core values of sustainability, safety, and participation. We are proud that our services often show very good results. Salem is a welcoming and inclusive municipality where everyone feels at home.

Workplace Description

The Department of Children and Education is the largest department in the municipality with over 400 employees. The department is led by a head of department/school principal who has nine staff members in a support function, including the committee secretary.

We are now looking for a committee secretary to strengthen the administrative and legal competence within the department. The role involves a broad mandate where structure, order, and clarity are crucial to ensure effective and legally secure handling of matters.

Job Description

As a committee secretary, you are responsible for managing and developing the department's administrative processes. You support the committee and the head of department in the committee process. You prepare and quality assure matters for the committee, including revising various governing documents and reporting on internal control. You ensure that documents and decision-making materials are legally and linguistically correct and handle public documents and confidentiality assessments according to applicable legislation.

You play a central role in registration and record-keeping as the department's registrar and are responsible for school transport matters, including financial reconciliations. Furthermore, you coordinate the internal control work and monitor compliance with legal and financial guidelines.

You coordinate purchases, competence development initiatives, and handle incoming complaints within the operation. If necessary, you assist with legally and linguistically correct statements to authorities. The position also includes administrative work related to collaboration according to applicable cooperation agreements.

In your role, you have many points of contact, both with elected officials, civil servants, and citizens, which requires good communication skills and a service-oriented attitude.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with an academic background in a relevant field, preferably social sciences, political science, public administration, law, or similar, or equivalent experience and education as assessed by the employer.

We would like you to have:

• Experience in similar tasks within public administration.
• Good knowledge of the laws governing municipal operations, such as the Local Government Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act.

To succeed in this role, it is important that you have well-developed communication skills in Swedish, both spoken and written. You can work independently and in a structured manner but still have the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. We are looking for someone who is service-oriented and confident and enjoys working with others to solve tasks.

Employment Conditions

The position is a permanent employment at 80-100% with immediate start or as agreed. The application deadline is December 22, 2025.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Salem Municipality and to facilitate good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format. It is also important that you fill out your application carefully as your qualifications will be weighed against other applicants.

Warm welcome to submit your application!

In preparation for the recruitment work, Salem Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.