Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions

We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The City Planning Office is planning for a future Stockholm on behalf of the City Planning Committee. We work with urban planning both at a strategic and detailed level, building permits, city measurement, property formation, and housing adaptation. The City Planning Office has about 340 employees and we are centrally located in Kungsholmen, about a ten-minute walk from Stockholm Central Station. The administration's activities are permeated by the values of professionalism, solution-oriented approaches, holistic perspectives, and joy at work.

Welcome to us

Do you want to help create the conditions for Stockholm to grow and develop into a capital prepared for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities - welcome to us at the City Planning Office!

The City Measurement Department is one of the four departments of the City Planning Office and currently has about 65 employees.

We are responsible for geodata-related tasks within the administration, including the production, maintenance, and distribution of the city's geographic data, 3D visualization, preparation of planning maps, property registers, and we have a model workshop. We also have a municipal land surveying authority.

Urban Planning Support is one of four specialist units within the City Measurement Department. The unit's cartographers work together with urban planners and building permit administrators to produce various types of documentation and support for the urban planning process, such as planning maps for detailed plans, base maps, and property registers, new construction maps, as well as building, apartment, and address registration. Today, the unit consists of 15 employees, divided into two teams.

We offer

At the City Planning Office, you will become an important part of an authority in change where we are all active, accessible, and credible. We offer you an inspiring and learning workplace where you have good opportunities to develop and learn new things.

As an employee with us, we can offer:

• developing and independent tasks
• competent and creative colleagues
• regular and relevant professional development in daily operations
• generous flexible working hours
• health benefits and other discounts on various activity opportunities

Read more about our benefits via the link: Benefits (#)

Your role

As a cartographer, you will be part of a team that produces planning maps, base maps, and property registers in the detailed planning process. You will work closely with urban planners and establish planning maps in dialogue with them. The planning maps are created in the systems Focus Detailed Plan Total and Microstation. Before consultations, we prepare posters with information about the detailed plan proposal for the citizens. The consultation posters are made in the software InDesign.

In the process of establishing planning maps, you will also produce base maps and property registers, with field measurements conducted by another unit. In this role, you will also collaborate with measurement engineers and, if necessary, the municipal land surveying authority.

The work involves managing several detailed plans simultaneously and contributing to the team's development through routine work, environmental monitoring, internal reviews, and improvement of work processes. The role may also include additional tasks within the unit or department.

The position is a parental leave substitute for a maximum length of one year.

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for you who have:

• a vocational education with a focus on cartography/cartographic technology, a university education in urban planning, or another equivalent education that the employer assesses as equivalent.
• the ability to express yourself well in Swedish in both speech and writing.

It is an advantage if you also have:

• current work experience in producing planning maps for detailed plans according to the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's regulations and in producing property registers.
• understanding of the detailed planning process.

In this recruitment, we place particular emphasis on the following personal qualities: Your work style is characterized by good structure with the ability to plan and prioritize your work effectively. You need to be a team player who thrives in an environment that requires flexibility, and you will need to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. The role requires very good collaboration skills, as you are attentive and build good relationships with a flexible and trustworthy approach. Your communication is characterized by clarity in both speech and writing, with the ability to adapt communication based on the recipient.

Other information

In this recruitment, the personal letter is not mandatory. We use selection questions in the application process to ensure a fair and equitable assessment of you as a candidate. Note that it should clearly appear in your CV how you meet our stated requirements and merits, as this, together with selection questions, forms the basis for our selection work.

During the Christmas holiday, we have limited ability to answer questions; please email your question, and we will get back to you when we return on January 7.

Warm welcome with your application!

The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's skills and thereby counteracting discrimination.