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Here in western Värmland, among vast lakes and lush forests, there is a strong glow that spreads warmth and light. The glow is our vision and guiding star. In the Arvika municipal group, approximately 2,700 competent employees work today. Welcome to join us!

Do you want to lead, drive, and develop an operation that contributes to essential community services? Do you thrive in a broad role where you have the opportunity to be an engaged leader?

As the unit manager for the pool operations at the Recruitment and Competence Center in Arvika Municipality, you have overall responsibility for ensuring safe, flexible, and quality staffing for the municipality's operations.

You lead a central and strategically important function that contributes daily to keeping care, social services, food, and other municipal units running.

In the role of unit manager, you are responsible for organizing, developing, and following up on the municipality's pool operations.

You work closely with the operations to ensure availability and maintain high staffing quality. The assignment includes both strategic and operational parts, where your leadership plays a crucial role in ensuring that both employees and operations succeed. You will have close collaboration with your nearest unit manager colleague at the Recruitment and Competence Center.

Qualifications

To succeed in the role of unit manager, we see that you have:

• Relevant higher education, e.g., in human resources, healthcare, pedagogy, or leadership. Or documented leadership experience with personnel responsibility that we assess as equivalent.
• Previous experience in staffing, scheduling, resource planning, and budgeting.
• Previous experience and good familiarity with digital staffing systems and IT tools.
• Interest in or good understanding of municipal operations and its regulations.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

It is also meritorious if you as a unit manager have:

• Experience from a municipal staffing pool or similar operations.
• Leadership training according to the model of the Swedish Defence University or equivalent.
• Knowledge of healthcare and social care issues, food services, or schools.

To thrive in the role of unit manager, we are looking for someone who is a secure and present leader. Someone who is relationship-building and has a natural ability to build trust and collaborate effectively with various stakeholders. You work in a structured and solution-oriented manner and find it easy to handle complex staffing issues with both a holistic view and precision. With your good communication skills, you are clear, attentive, and inspiring in dialogue with both employees and other manager colleagues. You are flexible and resilient, thrive in a changing environment, and can quickly adapt to new conditions. At the same time, you are development-oriented and motivated to drive improvement work and contribute to innovation in the operations.

Responsibilities

In your role as unit manager, you will be responsible for:

• Strategically and operationally planning staffing based on the needs of the operations.
• Having personnel responsibility for permanent employees in the pool (recruitment, introduction, skills development, work environment). Currently consisting of pool groups within elderly care (9 employees), LSS/personal assistance (7 employees), and food services (5 employees).
• Ensuring that the staffing pool functions as a flexible and cost-effective resource.
• Collaboration with operational managers within care, food services, and schools.
• Responsibility for budget, follow-up, and reporting.
• Driving development work to increase the attractiveness and efficiency of staffing solutions.

Application

Selection will begin in early January and will continue on an ongoing basis. The last application date is 2026-01-13.

In this recruitment, we place great emphasis on personal suitability. We value that all competencies are utilized and welcome all applicants. We strive for diversity.

Welcome with your application!

Other

The Arvika municipal group collaborates with Varbi in recruitment matters, and it is also our recruitment tool for handling applications and a means to quality assure our recruitment process. You apply for the job through the link in the ad. It is important that you are careful when filling out your application as it is assessed against other applicants. We have made our choice of media and therefore do not wish to be contacted by sales companies.