Recreation Leader for Ung Fritid Haninge

Do you have ideas for the future and are you driven by challenges? In Haninge, you will develop alongside supportive colleagues who want to make a difference today. One of the most ambitious transformation efforts in our municipality's history is currently underway. We are building a new city, about 20 minutes from Söder. Join us on our journey.

Become a part of Ung Fritid Haninge – Where your contribution makes a difference!

Are you ready to inspire, engage, and create magical memories for the youth of Haninge? We are now looking for recreation leaders who are passionate about making a difference in young people's lives.

With us, you will have the chance to guide young people in everything from creative workshops to exciting tournaments, and be a trusted adult in their daily lives.

If you want to contribute to a meaningful leisure time, where joy, participation, and development are in focus, then you are the one we are looking for! Welcome with your application and become a key player in the future of Haninge's youth.

Description of the Organization

The vision of the Culture and Leisure Administration can be summarized as “We enrich life in Haninge” and we work to prepare children and young people for adult life. The vision of the youth center emphasizes the importance of being able to be who you are and becoming who you want to be! Our young people in our organization are met by engaged and competent recreation leaders who strive for participation and safety in an accessible and equal environment. We work to create new and developing activities based on the wishes, initiatives, and needs of young people.

Participation and influence are fundamental values for us when our children and youth are involved in shaping the organization with you as a recreation leader as a coach. Based on young people's lifestyles, differences, current trends, and wishes, we create attractive meeting places where young people aged 13-19 thrive and develop.

Your Mission

As a recreation leader with us, you will work to offer needs-based activities in open and structured group activities. You will lead and stimulate our visitors to become co-creators of their own leisure time with the goal of trying new things and developing more interests. The work involves responsibility for planning, documenting, implementing, and evaluating activities and operations. You will collaborate with both colleagues and other partners and co-arrange activities with both civil society and the business community. The role also includes working to create safe and inclusive meeting places for young people, as well as being responsible for maintaining ongoing routines in the organization such as keeping order in the premises, managing the kitchen, light cleaning, and laundry, etc.

Your Qualifications

• Recreation leader training or other education and experience that the employer considers to provide equivalent competence
• Knowledge of creating meaningful activities in collaboration with children and youth
• Knowledge of working with and for participation and influence for young people
• Ability to work relationship-building and with understanding and acceptance to discuss current social issues in meetings with children and youth
• Ability to create collaboration with both civil society and the business community, such as schools, parents, associations, social services, police, etc.
• Knowledge of different socioeconomic conditions and how they play an important role in our opportunities to participate in and our choices of leisure activities
• Knowledge of what contributes to an inclusive environment and what contributes to exclusion
• Ability to understand and recognize social behaviors and patterns on the Internet, as social media today serves as a social meeting place for young people

Your Competence

We want you to be self-driven and focused on operations in your daily work. You are motivated by creating real participation and seeing children and youth develop. It is very important to us that you have personal maturity and want to be and function as a good role model. You are a relationship builder and can create trust and confidence based on a coaching and strategic leadership style. Since we work with many contact points and partners, such as schools, social services, parents, associations, police, etc., your ability to collaborate is very important to us. Our needs-based operations place high demands on both your flexibility and your leadership. The digitalization of society and how young people handle new technology will affect the operations and require competence in the area.

We consider it desirable that you have experience working in a youth center as well as knowledge of VBE and LGBTQ issues, as well as knowledge of gender equality and a critical approach to norms and work. Project management experience and comfort speaking in front of groups, as well as knowledge of methods for working with vulnerable and/or aggressive children and youth, are also advantageous. The operations are primarily conducted during afternoons, evenings, and weekends.

We Offer You

With us, you will have a developing and flexible job that engages and challenges you, together with knowledgeable colleagues and experienced managers.

Welcome with your application!

In this recruitment, we have already made our choices of advertising channels and partners. We kindly but firmly decline any form of assistance with recruitment from external actors.

Haninge Municipality sees diversity as a strength and welcomes all applicants. Our competence-based recruitment methodology aims to focus on the individual's competence and thereby also counteract discrimination.