Vacant job

Description

As a business developer within the Welfare and Leisure City Area, you will play a central role in strengthening and developing the department's work for children, youth, and residents in the city area together with managers and employees.

You will support several units, with a particular focus on the Promotion and Prevention unit – where the Field Group, Health Tech, School as Arena, and Association Support together contribute to early, accessible, and relationship-building interventions.

Responsibilities

Your mission is to create conditions for sustainable business development. You contribute with structure, analysis, and direction, but also with engagement, inspiration, and curiosity. In close collaboration with managers and colleagues, you turn goals, needs, and ideas into concrete working methods that make a difference in everyday life – both for employees and for those we serve.

In this role, you will:

• drive and coordinate development work within the promotion and prevention area, from idea to implementation and follow-up
• be a qualified support to managers in planning, analysis, and management-related issues
• contribute to developing common working methods, processes, and procedures that strengthen quality, equity, and collaboration
• lead workshops, dialogues, and other learning forums where employees' experiences are utilized and development is created together
• work with follow-up, analysis, and documentation that provides useful decision-making bases and contributes to learning, among other things through the city's system support
• monitor the external environment and introduce current knowledge, new perspectives, and good examples into the operations
• strengthen collaboration both within the department and with other actors such as schools, civil society, and other parts of the city.

Your working hours are mainly during the day, but some evening and weekend work may occur to meet the needs of the operation.

Do you share our ambition to develop operations that make a difference for children and youth? Welcome with your application.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in social work or equivalent academic education that the employer deems relevant for the position. You should have good experience in developing and improving working methods, processes, or methods. We also expect you to have experience working with children and youth aged 10-20 years.

You see opportunities for change and create situations where new ideas and proposals can be developed. You motivate others and describe changes pedagogically, as well as handle criticism of change in a constructive manner.

You gain energy from contributing to others' learning and create conditions for development to occur. You identify strengths and uplift employees, but also ask questions that allow for reflection on one's own work. You encourage dialogue, participation, and engagement.

You can see your work as part of a larger context and have a good ability to collaborate with others to create value. You understand the common mission and can adapt others' ideas to your own operations.

You can effectively identify and analyze the core of a problem and propose possible solutions. You have the ability to see connections and can draw logical conclusions from limited and/or complex information.

Other

In this recruitment process, we will not ask for a cover letter. Instead, during the application process, you will be asked to answer a number of questions about your competencies in the requested area.

To meet the requirements of GDPR and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or letter. If you have protected personal information, you should NOT apply through the system but contact the recruiting manager for handling your application.

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee of the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you have the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks.

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

About us

The Social Administration South West is one of four social administrations in the City of Gothenburg with around 900 employees. In the South West city area, about 120,000 residents live, and the area stretches from Billdal to Högsbohöjd and to the southern archipelago. The administration's mission is to ensure that children, youth, and adults can live a safe and independent life and that children and youth have a rich leisure time. The administration also works to support homeless individuals to achieve stable housing. Through collaboration with civil society, local businesses, and other actors, we aim to improve public health and safety in the area.

In the Social Administration South West, we want to harness the engagement of all employees. With us, you can influence both your own job and the lives of others.