Legal Advisors at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's legal unit is expanding, and we are now looking for two legal advisors specializing in administrative law and grant management.

The legal advisors provide legal support in matters concerning general administrative law, procurement, data protection, digitalization and IT law, contracts and agreements, damages, public access and confidentiality, preparedness and security, as well as grants and state aid. The unit is also responsible for overall work related to legal security and is in charge of efforts against corruption and irregularities. With us, you will have the opportunity to work with challenging and current legal issues and help drive the development towards a sustainable environment. There are eleven lawyers working in the legal unit.

Your Responsibilities

As a legal advisor, you will work under the guidance of the unit manager to provide legal support to the agency. You will contribute to ensuring that the agency's work is conducted and developed in a legally secure and efficient manner. This entails varied tasks that require your ability to combine strong knowledge in the relevant legal areas with an understanding of what best contributes to the effective fulfillment of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's mission in accordance with applicable law.

The positions involve providing broad legal support to the agency's grant operations. This means you will work with, among other things, legal quality assurance of terms and decisions, supporting in recovery, appeals, and crime reports, as well as participating in efforts to prevent incorrect payments.

In addition to work related to the agency's grant operations, the position as a legal advisor means that you, together with other lawyers in the unit and in close collaboration with various professional categories and parts of the organization, will:

• Provide ongoing legal support to the operations,
• Support the chief legal officer,
• Draft legal investigations and make legal assessments in larger legal issues,
• Contribute to developing routines and working methods by participating in the development of agency-wide governing and supporting documents,
• Participate in projects, government assignments, and consultation responses, and
• Contribute to establishing and developing processes for case handling and decision-making.

You will, together with colleagues in the unit, conduct internal training within the unit's areas of responsibility.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a law degree and several years of relevant legal experience. You should have broad legal competence and be able to make independent assessments based on an analysis of the legal conditions. Furthermore, you should have experience working in courts, ministries, law firms, or other government agencies. You should have good knowledge of administrative law.

It is an advantage if you have relevant experience working with state aid to businesses or have expertise in state aid.

We are looking for someone who is independent, responsible, and meticulous. We expect you to have good communication skills in Swedish, both spoken and written. To thrive, you should also:

• Be service-oriented and enjoy collaborating with different professional categories,
• Be solution-oriented and able to prioritize, and
• Be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and be accustomed to working efficiently and sometimes under time pressure.

We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

About the Positions

The positions are permanent at 100%. Start date is as soon as possible or by agreement. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency applies a six-month probationary period. You will be located in our pleasant activity-based premises in Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm or Östersund.

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency offers a flexible working method with the possibility of remote work up to 50% of the working time. We strive for an efficient operation, a sustainable work life, and well-being.

We apply individual salary setting.

Of course, you value the agency's long-term direction summarized in three words: innovative, collaborative, and simpler.

Application

Welcome with your application by January 18, 2026.

Contact

If you would like to know more about the position, please contact the following persons via the switchboard, tel. no. 010-698 10 00.

Line Zandén, unit manager at the legal unit.

Contact persons for ST and SACO.

About the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency drives and coordinates work for a good living environment together with others. We base our work on knowledge and demonstrate opportunities for sustainable development. We are an environmental authority working on behalf of the government. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for issues related to climate and air, land, biodiversity, contaminated areas, recycling and waste, environmental monitoring, and environmental research. If you want to know more about what it is like to work with us, see www.naturvardsverket.se/Om-Naturvardsverket/Jobba-hos-oss (http://www.naturvardsverket.se/Om-Naturvardsverket/Jobba-hos-oss)

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency strives for a workplace characterized by equality and diversity. We see that employees with different backgrounds and experiences are an important prerequisite for this.

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