Field Assistant within Youth Leisure

Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Do you want to be part of a team that truly makes a difference for young people? Then you should apply for the position with us.

Our ambition is to be at the forefront of innovative solutions, smart working methods, and an efficient organization. As an employee, you play an important role in the development work. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by a consensus between politics and operations, where the common interest and responsibility for the best of Vallentuna shines through. Approach, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work for good results and increased quality.

Engagement, collaboration, and equal value for all should permeate our organization. You who are applying should of course share our common values.

About the Organization

You will be part of Youth Leisure, which consists of the municipality's meeting places for young people and field operations. The organization works to ensure that young people have a safe and inclusive environment where they can pursue their interests, be involved, and create projects and events themselves. Here we work closely with the everyday lives of young people and continuously develop methods and activities that strengthen young people's influence and well-being.

The field group consists of three dedicated employees who work socially preventively and health-promoting with a focus on safety and relationships. The group has a strong team spirit, supports each other in everyday life, and works strategically together with the police, social services, schools, youth centers, and guardians. Fieldwork is an important part of Youth Leisure's whole – a mobile, present, and relationship-building function that captures what happens in the moment and contributes to young people feeling seen, heard, and involved.

Job Responsibilities

As a field assistant within Youth Leisure, you work relationship-building, outreach, and preventive with a focus on young people's safety and well-being. You build trusting relationships and are present where young people move – in schools, at meeting places, and in public environments – to early capture needs and prevent conflicts and risk behaviors through presence and dialogue. The work is carried out in close collaboration with schools, social services, police, and guardians to create a common and sustainable direction. You also contribute to planning and implementing activities and events that strengthen positive contexts, and use digital tools and social media for communication and contact. The assignment is operational and mobile with varied working hours and requires energy, flexibility, and initiative.

You are a secure and engaged adult who meets young people at eye level, captures the atmosphere in the moment, and creates positive contexts. A central part of the role is the desire to create activities and operations together with young people. You work preventively through presence, dialogue, and collaboration and have the ability to remain calm even when it gets intense.

As a field assistant within Youth Leisure, you get a job where every day feels real and important. You are close to young people's everyday lives and build relationships that matter – while you develop yourself. The position suits you who thrive in movement and enjoy variety. The work is scheduled both during the day, evenings, and weekends.

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in social work, behavioral science, leisure, pedagogy, or equivalent.
• Experience working with young people, preferably in field operations, social work, youth centers, or safety-promoting work.
• Good communication skills.
• Meritorious: Experience of targeted interventions for specific target groups, such as girls.
• Meritorious: Competence or interest in digital creation, film, sound, or social media.

Personal Qualities:

• You work towards results, demonstrate reliability, and take responsibility for planning and follow-up of your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, learning, and knowledge on your own initiative.
• Common values are reflected in your approach.
• Are humble, curious, and relationship-building, with the ability to meet young people in different life situations.
• Are reliable, professional, and responsible, with a safe and respectful approach.
• Have high drive and initiative but are also calm and stress-resistant in complex situations.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Information:

As an employer, we want to take advantage of the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and cultural diversity contribute. Vallentuna Municipality invests in competence development and a sustainable working life. To have the best possible conditions in your employee role, Vallentuna Municipality has an employee academy where you will receive training and tools.

The employment is a permanent full-time position (100 percent) with a possible start date in January 2026. We apply individual salary setting.

Before any new employment, Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks.

All who are employed for work with children and young people must submit a register extract from the police authority's criminal record, the e-service for application via digital extract or form can be found here; https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623 (https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623) (mandatory when relevant to the position).

To quality assure the recruitment process, we use the tool ReachMee. We ask you to submit your application by clicking on the application link in the ad. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the designated person in the ad.

You are warmly welcome to send your application with a personal letter and CV no later than 260130.

For more information contact:

Jonas Jonsson, Unit Manager Youth and Active Leisure: 08-587 853 47 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

More information and union representatives can be found at https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/ (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/)