About the Unit

The military security service is led and directed by the security office. Within the security office, the security protection department is responsible for the military strategic management of the security protection service. The information security section, where the position is placed, is responsible for matters concerning information security and physical security for the Armed Forces' security protection assets.

Main Responsibilities

As a specialist, you have a central role in the strategic and analysis-driven work to develop, support, and review physical security in the Armed Forces. This includes developing requirements, ensuring compliance with regulations in the area, and working on method development. You participate in control and supervision activities regarding security protection, conduct training initiatives, and provide advisory support on physical security issues internally within the Armed Forces and externally within the framework of Total Defense. Through environmental monitoring, you keep yourself updated in your field. Together with your colleagues, you are an important part of the development work within the security protection area.

Qualifications

• Professional officer exam or other relevant academic degree, or other education or experience deemed equivalent by the employer
• Experience in physical security work, including knowledge of laws and regulations in the area of security protection
• Very good ability to express oneself in speech and writing in Swedish
• Good knowledge of English
• Driving license B

Meritorious

• Several years of experience as a professional officer
• Experience working with public access and confidentiality legislation, the protection law, and security protection legislation
• Experience in monitoring, supervision, and controls
• Security protection or security/IT security manager training, civilian or within the Armed Forces
• Experience from staff work at regional or central level within the Armed Forces
• Experience working with alarms and technical surveillance systems
• Experience in case management at a government agency

Personal Qualities

We believe that you are curious, proactive, creative, and self-driven, with the ability to work both independently and in a team. Furthermore, we expect you to be able to convey your knowledge and switch between long-term work and handling tasks with very short timeframes. The strategic level of the work requires a high analytical ability where you can identify and describe deficiencies and problems, while being pragmatic and solution-focused. A large part of our work is done in collaboration with other units within Must, the Armed Forces, and other authorities, which requires the ability to create and maintain good relationships. We also see it as important that you have good judgment, a professional attitude, and high integrity. The position includes national and international travel within the framework of our control and supervision activities.

Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

The qualifications stated above must be verifiable upon request through certificates, references, and work or selection tests.

For the authority's mission to be successful, it is assumed that all employees act according to the values that exist. The Armed Forces' values uphold the equal worth of all people, justice, and equality, and promote democracy and human rights (read more at www.forsvarsmakten.se).

Other

Employment type: Permanent employment starting with a six-month probationary period
Start date: By agreement
Work location: Stockholm

For inquiries about the position or the recruitment process, please contact:
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected]), please write “Specialist Physical Security” in the subject line.

Union Representatives

Union representatives can be reached via [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

We warmly welcome your application by 2026-01-26. In your CV and cover letter, we would like you to describe how you meet our requested qualifications and merits. You apply via jobb.forsvarsmakten.se (https://jobb.forsvarsmakten.se)

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Armed Forces' website.

The Military Intelligence and Security Service (Must) is part of the Armed Forces' headquarters in Stockholm. We provide the government and the Armed Forces with qualified decision-making support regarding global developments and threats to Sweden's and the Armed Forces' security. Our vision is “A safer Sweden in an uncertain world.” Must is a knowledge organization and offers both exciting and important tasks for Sweden. Here, both officers and civilian experts work in various fields, such as political science, IT, economics, technology, mathematics, and HR.

A large part of Must's operations are classified, and we therefore ask you not to disclose that you have applied for a job at Must to anyone other than your closest contacts. Please read more about Must and our operations here.

Every day and every hour, our employees make contributions that affect other people's lives, both in large and small ways, and both at home and around the world.

The Armed Forces give you the opportunity to develop as a person and grow in your professional role. We are a responsible employer and have an open organization where we support each other.

In the Armed Forces, there is a strong value base built on openness, results, and responsibility. Professional development and personal health are valued and encouraged. There are good opportunities for internal career mobility, wellness, and a good balance between work and private life.

The Armed Forces leverage the qualities that diversity and gender balance bring to the organization. We therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences in our recruitments.

Employment with us implies placement in a security class. Usually, Swedish citizenship is required. Security clearance with a background check will be conducted prior to employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. Employment also entails an obligation to be placed in wartime. The implications of this vary depending on the type of position.

To the application for employment, a CV and cover letter must be attached. If you proceed in the employment process, certified copies of diplomas and certificates must always be presented.

Calls from external recruitment companies and salespeople are not welcome.