Work in Ekerö Municipality

We have made a decision! We aim to be a leading municipality – and we have everything it takes to succeed. Short decision-making paths, collaboration across organizational boundaries, and the willingness to dare more. Our high ambitions provide you with opportunities to grow and create positive change for the citizens. As an employee of Ekerö Municipality, you will play a valuable role in our unique archipelago world – and we look forward to your application.

Civil Preparedness

Civil preparedness is one of the municipality's prioritized issues. We are now appointing a preparedness coordinator focused on municipal health and medical care. The role is placed in the civil preparedness unit within the municipal management office's staff function. There, you will be part of a team of four people who work with preparedness and safety under the leadership of the municipality's new preparedness and safety manager.

Job Description

We believe in you and your abilities – that’s why we give you great space in your role. Many who work with us appreciate the trust and responsibility they receive in our municipality, as it contributes to much learning and development in everyday life. To succeed, you are confident in yourself, your profession, and have the ability to both take initiative and set boundaries.

In this role, you will work both at a municipal-wide level and with initiatives to enhance robustness within municipal health and medical care. The role involves contributing to municipal-wide structures and directions for the work and driving development within the social services department based on existing guidelines. You will adapt centrally developed materials and directives to the needs of the social services department and also contribute the perspective of line operations to the municipal-wide work. Thus, you will become an important function at the interface between the central level and the work in line operations.

Personal Qualities

We are looking for someone who can combine strategic thinking with operational work and has a strong drive for development. At the same time, you are responsive, flexible, and needs-driven, with the ability to independently translate direction into practical action and make things happen. You are communicative, solution-oriented, and build trusting relationships and clear forms of collaboration. It is natural for you to collaborate closely with others internally and externally, based on the needs of the issues you drive. In short – you are a driving force that makes a difference!

Main Responsibilities:

• Participate in the municipal-wide work with civil preparedness.
• Drive, coordinate, and develop initiatives to maintain essential operations within municipal health and medical care.
• Implement capability-enhancing initiatives within municipal health and medical care.
• Participate in the work with total defense planning.
• Plan and conduct exercises and training.
• Collaborate with internal and external actors and participate in networks and collaborative forums.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• Relevant higher education.
• Knowledge of civil preparedness.
• Good communicative and pedagogical skills in speech and writing.
• Good computer skills and experience with Microsoft 365.

Meritorious are:

• Experience working in a politically governed organization.
• Experience leading development work.
• Experience leading workshops, training, and exercises.
• Experience in municipal health and medical care.

The position is classified in a security class, which means that a successful background check and security clearance are prerequisites for employment. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Start date: By agreement
Scope: Full-time
Employment form: Fixed-term employment for eight months, with the possibility of extension. The position will be filled subject to the approval of the application for state funding.

How to get to Ekerö Municipality

About Ekerö Municipality

We are a variety of operations that together create a unique municipality – where we all help each other across unit and operational boundaries. We live our values, which means great commitment, good communication with open dialogue, and a professional approach. As a smaller municipality in the Stockholm region, we can offer both proximity to each other and an ambitious development journey. To become a leading municipality, we need to bring in new perspectives, and we hope you want to contribute yours.

Ekerö Municipality aims to be an attractive employer and strives for a clear focus on sustainability. Provided that the organization’s ability to meet its goals remains, the municipality has a positive attitude towards remote work when possible.

We offer, for example, wellness grants, salary exchange for pension, conversion of vacation day allowances to days off, and smoke-free working hours. To ensure the quality of our recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application digitally, and not via email or post.

We have already made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing and do not wish to be contacted by media salespeople, recruitment sites, and similar.