Activity Leader for Seniors

The city of Västerås has removed the personal letter from the application process. We do this to achieve a better and fairer recruitment process. When you submit your application, you will be asked to answer a number of questions that will be an important part of our selection work.

Here you will have a varied job with the opportunity to think outside the box, be creative, and drive development. You will be part of building something from the ground up together with others who truly want to make a difference for our seniors.

Your Responsibilities

We are healthier and living longer than before, and seniors today have new wishes, interests, and needs. As an activity leader, you influence how we meet these needs by developing and creating a modern and attractive meeting place. A vibrant environment for the city’s seniors characterized by community, health, and meaningfulness.

You work preventively and health-promoting with the goal of strengthening seniors' well-being, participation, and quality of life. You are independently responsible for the operations, and the work is varied. This means that you plan, lead, and develop activities based on the interests and needs of the visitors. This can include discussion meetings, lectures, and physical activities. By encouraging and inspiring seniors to be actively involved and organize events themselves, we build an active meeting place.

You collaborate with associations, organizations, and colleagues from other meeting places. You are skilled at thinking innovatively and creating new collaborations to develop activities and create meaningful content. Your responsibilities also include handling practical tasks related to the daily operations of the meeting place to ensure its functionality.

Your Qualifications

You have a genuine interest in the elderly target group and are motivated to strengthen their independence and well-being. Your educational background is an academic degree, such as a behavioral scientist, public health expert, or social worker. You have experience working in healthcare or social work. We also view positively if you have experience in health promotion work with the elderly, activity planning, or collaboration with external actors.

As a person, you are confident, self-driven, and proactive. You enjoy building good relationships, collaborating, and can easily adapt to new situations with people with different needs. You are creative and enjoy combining planning and leadership with practical tasks in everyday life. Your IT skills are good, and you are comfortable with digital tools and express yourself well in Swedish, both spoken and written. There may be activities at times other than daytime, which means you will work some evenings and weekends.

We Offer

You will have a varied job with great freedom to think innovatively, be creative, and drive development with participation. With us, you will be part of building something from the ground up together with others who truly want to make a difference for our seniors.

You will belong to the preventive unit, which is a new exciting unit within the health and social care administration. The unit includes digital supervisors, family consultants, Aros fixers, senior guides, vision and hearing instructors, activity leaders, development leaders, and business developers. The units actively work to create and develop new and existing meeting places. Currently, the available positions are for Senior Point or Skallberget's meeting place.

Here you will be part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we show initiative in both big and small matters. We live our values in our interactions with each other and those we serve. Every day, all year round, we ensure that Västerås functions. Together with your approximately 11,500 colleagues throughout the city, you will have Sweden's most important job.

Feel free to read more here: Meeting Places for Seniors - Västerås (https://www.vasteras.se/omsorg-stod-och-hjalp/motesplatser-for-aldre.html)

Read more about opportunities, career paths, and our offerings here: Jobs and Careers (https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarri%C3%A4r)

Warm welcome with your application!

Additional Information

If you have any questions during the Christmas and New Year holidays, you can reach the recruiting manager Karin Liebscher until December 24th. Business developer Paolo Sandbom is available for questions about the operations throughout the period, except on weekends and public holidays.

Interviews are planned to be conducted during week 3, 2026.

Before you can be employed, you need to present an approved extract from the police criminal record.

In connection with the interview, you need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a personal certificate along with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must present a valid work permit or be exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance. All offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are declined.