Lawyer with a focus on administrative law

The Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) is the authority for intellectual property rights. We work with new ideas at the forefront of technology and development to strengthen Sweden's growth and competitiveness. By increasing awareness and the ability to utilize intellectual assets, PRV contributes to an innovative and sustainable society. Our vision is for PRV to be a driving and obvious actor for the world's most innovative country.

We are an open and customer-oriented authority where our employees contribute with knowledge, enthusiasm, and commitment. Welcome to develop with us at PRV!

PRV is now seeking an engaged and experienced lawyer with a focus on administrative law for the unit of general law and supervision. The unit is part of the Operations Support department. It is led by a unit manager, who is also the deputy chief legal officer, and consists of four lawyers, a chief registrar, and an archivist. PRV's data protection officer is located in the unit.

The unit's mission is to provide qualified advice on legal matters and to ensure the quality of administrative processes as well as all the general legal areas that are relevant within the authority. The unit's area of responsibility includes, among other things, public access and confidentiality and other administrative legislation, information security, GDPR, AI, copyright, and supervision of collective rights management.

At PRV, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the operations together with knowledgeable colleagues and work in a varied, content-rich, and inspiring environment.

Job Responsibilities

As a lawyer in the unit for general law and supervision, your task will be to contribute to a good administrative culture by providing administrative legal support and other legal guidance within the authority.

You will participate where legal expertise is needed, including by quality assuring documents and projects, preparing legal investigations, responding to consultations, working on the development of procedures, managing relevant governing documents, and advising on public documents, public access, and confidentiality issues. Participation in internal training and information efforts may occur.

Who are you?

We are looking for someone with a Swedish law degree and several years of experience in qualified legal work at, for example, an authority, court, or ministry. You have worked with legal advice within public administration and have current experience in administrative legal issues. It is an advantage if you have experience in assessing the processing of personal data.

The work requires that you have very good analytical skills, are meticulous, and can work both independently and in a group with high-quality results. You are collaborative with a focus on the common goal and create good relationships. You adapt communication to the target audience and situation and have an understanding of the various departments and functions of the organization. It is important that you are solution-oriented and can quickly familiarize yourself with new tasks. You can express yourself very well in both spoken and written form, in both Swedish and English.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities. It is essential that you have excellent communication and collaboration skills and an interest in cooperating with other professions. You are proactive and can quickly adapt to new situations.

PRV Offers

In addition to an interesting, challenging, and independent job, we also offer friendly colleagues, a good atmosphere, and nice premises located in central Stockholm and Söderhamn with the possibility of remote work. The government agreements offer better benefits in some areas regarding vacation days and leave than other sectors. We also have wellness grants and wellness hours for all employees, read more here.

The employment is a permanent full-time position based in Stockholm. We apply a six-month probationary period.

The position is classified in a security class, which is why a security review with background checks according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) will be conducted before a decision on employment is made.

Read more about us and see who you will be working with on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/prv/). On our website, you can read more about what it is like to work at PRV: prv.se/jobb (http://www.prv.se/jobb).

Does it sound interesting?

You apply by attaching a detailed CV, written in Swedish, and answering a number of selection questions by no later than 20260107. Also attach your degree certificate from your law education.

Welcome with your application!

You apply directly via our website prv.se/jobb (http://prv.se/jobb).

For more information, please contact unit manager Elisabeth Bill. For questions about employment conditions, contact HR specialist Petter Svensson. Union representatives are Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf (Saco-S) and Håkan Bodin (ST). All contact persons can be reached at phone 08-782 28 00.

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