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Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? In Gävle municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trustworthy workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!

The Department of Overall Planning works with strategic planning and sustainability issues for the municipal management.

Within Governance and Support, we work closely with politics on the municipality's long-term and strategic issues. The Department of Overall Planning has a strategic and municipality-wide mission to develop Gävle within the Municipal Executive Board's responsibility for community building and is responsible for the Comprehensive Portfolio Expansion. Our mission also includes ensuring that the development of Gävle takes place with a focus on the environment and sustainability, where we integrate ecological, social, and economic sustainability perspectives into planning and decision-making.

The Unit for Strategic Community Planning is responsible for overarching infrastructure, planning and development issues, analyses, and governing documents that affect the entire community building process.

The unit has a special responsibility for comprehensive planning, development activities, land strategy, housing supply, the municipal group's Expansion Plan, and the Traffic Puzzle. As unit manager, you are also a sponsor and sub-portfolio owner for the BI portfolio and the Development portfolio.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? In Gävle municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trustworthy workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!

As a unit manager, you are responsible for leading, developing, and following up on the unit's operations, results, and employees. You create structure and direction, and ensure good working conditions through a trust-based and present leadership.

The assignment requires that you:

• Drive strategic development processes and contribute to a holistic perspective and coordination in a complex organization.
• Establish structured and clear working methods that meet the municipality's needs for long-term community planning.
• Collaborate broadly both internally within the municipality and with external actors such as authorities, property developers, and other partners.
• Make well-founded decisions even in pressured situations and lead the operations confidently through change.

You are a manager who creates engagement and motivation by coaching, supporting, and encouraging employees to grow and take responsibility. You are clear and factual in your communication and always contribute to an open dialogue.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education Mandatory Requirements

• Academic degree in community building or other education deemed relevant by the employer

Experience Mandatory Requirements

• Experience in strategic development work in a complex organization
• Several years of leadership experience, preferably in the public sector

Knowledge Desirable

• Experience in operational development and change work.
• Experience working in a politically governed organization.

Personal Competencies

• Collaborative: You have an unpretentious approach, adapt to the situation, and seek solutions that benefit the whole.
• Analytical: You see logic and connections in complex information and have the ability to identify long-term and sustainable solutions.
• Structured: You plan and organize your work effectively, create order and clarity, and ensure that processes are followed and assignments are carried out according to agreed goals and timelines.
• Trust-based leadership: You show understanding of the whole and create clarity in direction and goals. You delegate, provide room for action, and support employee development through present leadership.
• Communicative: You communicate clearly, explain backgrounds and decisions made, build arguments on facts, and contribute to open dialogue. You give and receive constructive feedback and create trust in various contexts.
• Change leader: You dare to try new working methods, handle unclear situations, and lead the operations confidently through change.

We offer

• An important community mission with significant influence
• Engaged colleagues and a development-oriented operation
• A workplace that values courage, openness, and trust

Welcome with your application!

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Within Gävle municipality, there is a decision on the right to full-time work, which means that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time position. This request must be met within six months, earliest calculated from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time work fulfilled, you may need to perform other tasks than those normally included in your employment.

Gävle municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it may be an asset.

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