Do you want to work with investments that make a real difference across Sweden?

Then you might be the one we are looking for.

At Tillväxtverket, we work for competitive companies and sustainable development in all parts of Sweden. We offer knowledge, networks, and investment opportunities. This directly benefits companies and also provides conditions for businesses, municipalities, and regions to meet future challenges. Tillväxtverket is a national authority with a regional presence in nine locations.

You will belong to the Regional Development Northern Sweden unit, part of the Regions department at Tillväxtverket. We are a dedicated team of project advisors and a program manager driving the work with the EU's regional fund program in northern Sweden. We work data-driven, with great responsibility and close collaboration with both local and national actors.

Your placement is in Luleå, but you will work on issues concerning both Norrbotten and Västerbotten. Travel is included in the position.

About the position

As a project advisor within the EU's regional fund, you will help determine how public funds are invested – in innovation, green transition, digitalization, and stronger companies. You will have a varied and analytical role where you follow projects from idea to result. At the same time, you will build knowledge about the regions' needs and work with assessments that require a good ability to interpret legal regulations, analyze economic data, and contribute to smart, sustainable solutions. You will participate in Tillväxtverket's efforts for strengthened regional competitiveness and sustainable development.

The role includes work with information, mobilization, advice, follow-up, result dissemination, and result communication, as well as processing project applications within the regional structural fund programs.

We offer a modern and flexible work environment with a balance between remote work and collaboration in the office.

Your workplace is: Luleå

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree from a university or college in social sciences/economics/law or another area that Tillväxtverket deems relevant for the position
• Experience working with processing within the public sector and the EU's structural fund programs or regional development work
• Established networks and/or good knowledge of the area's regional development organizations and growth-promoting actors
• Experience working with economic and legal data
• Very good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish, focusing on making complex information accessible

The following are meritorious:

• Experience with Nyps2020 (case management system)
• Experience working with issues within the regional innovation or business promotion system
• Experience working with green transition (environmental and climate issues)
• Good knowledge of state aid regulations
• Good knowledge of renewable energy, smart energy systems, and circular economy
• Longer work experience focused on the EU's structural fund programs or regional development work in Norrbotten and/or Västerbotten
• Driver's license B

As a person, we are looking for someone who is

Structured, results-oriented, independent, communicative, and service-minded.

We will place great importance on personal qualities.

We expect you to live up to our employee and manager policy that expresses the expectations we have for all employees.

We assume that you share our values, which are the state values. They unite all who are state employees, regardless of activity and profession. The value base aims to create an administration that is efficient, legally secure, and free from corruption and abuse of power.

Employment form and application deadline

The position is a permanent employment. We apply a 6-month probationary period.

The application deadline is December 9, 2025.

More information and contact

For more information about the tasks, you are welcome to contact unit manager Per Persson, phone 08-681 9546. Questions about the recruitment process are answered by HR partner Isabelle Lilja phone, 08-681 9148.

Union representatives

ST: contact person, Robert Berggren, email [email protected]
Saco: contact person, Susanna Lindbom, email [email protected]

Both can be reached by phone via the switchboard number 08-681 91 00.

We work competence-based, and the recruitment process will include selection questions, possible tests, interviews, and reference checks. To ensure a fair and accurate assessment, it is crucial that you provide the year and month for each employment and a brief description of the tasks in your CV.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the HR partner in this recruitment.

We are centrally located in modern premises where you can choose your workspace based on your tasks. Tillväxtverket strives for a working method where digital and technical solutions facilitate daily work. Here you can read about the employment conditions and benefits we offer.

Tillväxtverket aims to harness the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the organization. We strive for a work environment where every employee is given the opportunity to combine professional and private life for balance in life.

Welcome with your application to create your and Sweden's future!

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