Legal Advisor with a focus on procurement and administrative law

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency coordinates and drives the work for a good living environment together with others. With us, you can contribute to the important work of achieving our vision - to create a good living environment for humans and all other living beings, now and for future generations!

The legal unit at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is expanding, and we are now looking for a legal advisor with a focus on procurement and administrative law.

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 the overall work on legal certainty and is in charge of the work regarding 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 direction of the unit manager to provide legal support to the agency. This involves varied tasks that require your ability to combine solid knowledge within the legal areas handled by the unit 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 current position involves providing broad legal support within the unit's areas of responsibility, with particular responsibility for procurement legal support in close collaboration with the procurement unit. This includes legal quality assurance of procurements and contracts, ongoing procurement legal advice, internal training, and leading the work in reviews.

The role of the legal advisor involves working together with other lawyers in the unit and in close collaboration with various professional categories and parts of the organization, including

• providing ongoing legal support to the operations,
• supporting the chief legal officer,
• writing legal investigations and making legal assessments in larger legal issues,
• contributing to the development of routines and working methods by participating in the development of overarching governing and supporting documents,
• participating in projects, government assignments, and consultation responses, and
• contributing to establishing and developing processes for case handling and decision-making.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a law degree and experience in legal work at an agency, court, department, law firm, or other equivalent experience. You should have the ability to conduct in-depth legal analyses and have a comprehensive view of entire legal areas. For this position, you should have good knowledge of and current experience working with procurement law, as well as good knowledge of administrative law.

We also consider it an advantage to have several years of experience in relevant qualified legal work for the unit.

We are looking for someone who is independent, responsible, and meticulous. We expect you to have a good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing. To thrive in this role, 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, sometimes under time pressure.

We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

About the Employment

The employment is permanent at 100%.

Start date will be as soon as possible or by agreement. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency applies a six-month probationary period. You will be placed 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 want to know more about the position, please feel free to contact the following persons via the switchboard at 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 coordinates and drives the 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 (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.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing and therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.