Are you ready for a bigger task?

The Swedish Police Authority is Sweden's largest authority with approximately 40,000 employees across the country. With us, you have the opportunity to contribute to the Police's mission – to increase safety and reduce crime in society.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are now looking for a group manager who wants to drive community policing efforts to reduce crime and create a safer local community. Community police work primarily involves planned crime prevention and safety-enhancing efforts in line with the local police area's operational direction. The assignment also includes collaborating with internal and external partners to achieve effects in the work with local problem areas. The assignment is broad, varied, and changing, always with the local police area's residents in focus.

You will be responsible for a group with operational, personnel, and work environment responsibilities for approximately eight employees. You will plan and lead the work based on our operational direction and goals and work persistently and continuously with planned initiatives. Through your leadership, you create conditions for participation and community where collaboration is a significant and important part of daily work. As a group manager, you have great opportunities to steer and influence the work.

The Role of Group Manager

As the group manager, you report to the head of the local police area and are part of the local police area's management team, where you collectively are responsible for executing assignments and driving the authority's change and development work. You have particular responsibility for the group's activities in the area of crime prevention and its results. As a group manager, you represent the entire Police Authority both internally and externally and work to strengthen trust in police operations.

Being a manager and leader within the Police Authority means creating safety and building trust by exercising sincere, courageous, and attentive leadership with trust in others' competence and ability. As a manager, you drive development by inspiring and encouraging reflection and feedback in a way that is based on following the law and treating people equally. You create conditions and work for good relationships that contribute to us acting together based on what is best for citizens and the mission as a whole.

QUALIFICATIONS

This is an opportunity for you who have:

• Swedish police degree
• At least 6 months of continuous experience working as a manager
• Experience in the relevant operational area, i.e., external service
• Experience participating in change and development work
• Experience in the police organization's operations

We consider it advantageous if you also have:

• Experience in investigative assignments
• Experience leading others towards set goals and results
• Participated in management forums
• Management and leadership training for direct level
• Experience participating in/driving collaboration with community actors outside your own organization

When hiring, we will place great emphasis on personal qualities and leadership abilities. The basis for this assessment lies in the Police Authority's leadership criteria. The leadership criteria describe a desirable leadership style within the Police Authority and encompass the following abilities:

• Analysis and holistic view
• Goals and results
• Development and change
• Social security
• Oral and written communication
• Creating participation and motivation

Read more about the leadership criteria here (https://polisen.se/ledarkriterier/). If the link is not clickable, copy and paste the link text into your browser. [Add the text explanation at the link in the ad since links will not be clickable on LinkedIn.]

As part of the selection process, tests will also be used.

OTHER

Job title: police inspector
Work location: Gothenburg city
Function: manager, group

Apply by attaching your CV (we do not want a personal letter) and answering the selection questions. The questions are based on the requirement profile for this recruitment, and your answers will form the basis for the selection process. Therefore, it is important that you answer the questions clearly and thoroughly and do not refer to other documents, e.g., CV. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

Please note that requirements and any merits must be met at the time of application.

We use e-recruitment to streamline and ensure the quality of the recruitment process. Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Police's recruitment support Visma Recruit.

If you have protected personal information, references, or similar information that you consider to be sensitive, we recommend that you contact the responsible HR consultant before proceeding with your application.

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An employment with the Police Authority may start with a six-month probationary period.

The Police Authority is Sweden's largest authority. We offer you a workplace that promotes diversity, creativity, and personal development.

Read about our benefits as an employee of the police here (https://polisen.se/erbjudande).

We conduct our operations according to the six principles of the state value base: democracy, legality, objectivity, freedom of opinion, respect, and efficiency and service. As an employee of the police, you are expected to act according to these and contribute to their maintenance. This is a prerequisite for legal security, legal certainty, and the legitimacy of the police in society. As a representative of the police, you respect everyone's equal value and create trust in the police.

Read more about the police and our operations at polisen.se

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