Vacant job

The position is placed within the Municipal Executive Office, which is one of eight administrations in Linköping Municipality. We work with cross-municipal strategic issues and provide support and services to the entire municipality, businesses, organizations, and the municipality's political leadership. At the Municipal Executive Office, you are welcomed by a department with strong competence and driven, helpful colleagues who emphasize how meaningful it is to drive development for all of Linköping.

Do you want to brighten everyday life and improve the quality of life for the residents of Linköping? With us, you can make an important difference and help make Linköping a better place. Welcome to us!

Your Responsibilities

As a development strategist, you will work with tasks related to social sustainability. The focus will be to coordinate and implement the municipality's overarching assignments related to national minorities, as well as to support and coordinate the municipality's work based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Other tasks within social sustainability may arise, depending on your background and the unit's overall competence. The work includes collaboration with contact persons, both within your team and with contact persons in the municipality's various administrations and companies, as well as with external actors.

Your Workplace

The position is located in the Sustainability Unit, a group of 9 people where development strategists in social and ecological sustainability work together with the sustainability manager.

The Sustainability Unit is responsible for the municipality's cross-administrative strategic work on issues related to sustainable development. Examples of strategic areas of competence within the group include process management in segregation, gender equality, and climate.

Within social sustainability, the unit works, in addition to the areas mentioned above, to further develop and strengthen the municipality's work on democracy and diversity issues, human rights, and collaboration with civil society.

In ecological sustainable development, the unit works with areas such as a toxin-free environment, reduced climate emissions, climate adaptation, and circular economy.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone with a degree in social sciences or another higher education that the employer deems equivalent. You have previous experience in strategic coordination and process management work within social sustainability. Knowledge and experience of working with tasks related to national minorities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child are considered advantageous, as is experience working in a municipality or another politically governed organization.

Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form is necessary for the position as you will handle a lot of information and produce your own material and texts, as well as collaborate with many both internally and externally.

We are looking for someone who works well with others and listens and communicates in a constructive and clear manner. You ensure that the message reaches the recipient and remind and follow up. You take responsibility for your tasks and structure your approach and drive your processes forward. You handle stressful situations with calm and stability. Furthermore, you bring enthusiasm and energy to the work and motivate those around you. You can also see the bigger picture and prioritize the best interests of the organization in your actions and decisions.

We look forward to reading your application after the application deadline. In this recruitment, we use personality and problem-solving tests as part of our assessment.

Warm welcome to submit your application!

Additional Information

When you apply for a position in Linköping Municipality, you register your application by logging in via e-identification (such as BankID or FrejaID) instead of using an email address. If you lack e-identification, please contact the responsible HR consultant or manager, and they will assist you in registering your application.

Start date: 2026-04-01

Employment type: Fixed-term employment until 2027-03-26

Employment rate: 100%

Number of vacancies: 1

Ref. no: 16428

In this application, you do not attach a personal letter.

Together we shape the city of the future

Linköping is one of Europe's most innovative cities and a municipality of opportunities. With energy, courage, and heart, we make our city even better. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to find new solutions. And by brightening everyday life and improving the quality of life for our residents.