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Unit Manager at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency

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Skåne län, Malmö

Previous experience is desired

12 days left
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Every year, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency makes 21 million decisions that affect people's lives and society as a whole. We disburse approximately 260 billion kronor each year. It is everyone’s tax money that we manage. It is a great responsibility. Therefore, we delve into every case, follow laws and regulations, inform and guide, care, and show compassion. This is a job for you who want to take responsibility. Welcome to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

Our operations provide legal support to the department for sickness insurance. We are in an exciting phase of development and therefore welcome you who are driven and courageous in your leadership, inspired by change, and focused on the work environment. You will join a management team that drives and develops the operations together and to a mature and experienced unit.

Close leadership, change, sustainable workplace

As a unit manager, you are the leader who is closest to the employees and the operations. You are responsible for leading and driving the daily work based on the department's mission and goals, where the state’s value base permeates your work. Through your leadership, you convey clear expectations, follow up on goals, and provide your employees with the right conditions to take their responsibility. You have personnel responsibility as well as result and follow-up responsibility for the teams in your unit.

Your unit consists of 20 specialists who work to support the handling operations within sickness insurance and are located in several different locations in southern Sweden. Through close leadership, you create the predictability, security, and sustainability necessary for employees to take their responsibility and meet the need for change. You create understanding of context, direction, and the target images the department has set and develop the plans your operations need. As a unit manager, you are a support for the area manager and you are part of the area's management group consisting of seven unit managers where you contribute your expertise and engagement. You adapt and exercise your leadership in a way that creates conditions for employees to use their judgment and competence.

The position involves handling confidential information which places high demands on proper management. Therefore, it is important that you who will work with us have a high security awareness.

This is a job for you who want to take responsibility.

We are looking for someone who

  • has a university degree or experiences and qualifications that can be deemed equivalent
  • has good leadership skills
  • promotes others' professional and personal development
  • works to achieve goals and results, follows up on the effects of their own and others' activities
  • has a systematic working method
  • collaborates effectively with others to achieve common goals
  • has good self-awareness and is stable as a person, promotes a trust-building work climate
  • promotes mutual dialogue, is attentive, and adapts their communication according to needs and situations.

It is advantageous if you

  • have experience working with legal support or similar
  • have experience working in a court or authority
  • have knowledge of social insurance law
  • have experience in operational leadership
  • have experience in leadership in public sector
  • have experience in coaching leadership and leading change
  • have experience leading teams
  • have experience leading remotely
  • have experience planning your operations in collaboration with remote colleagues
  • have experience in competency-based recruitment within the state.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

Other

A position, permanent, full-time, with start date by agreement. A probationary period may be applicable. In accordance with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency's security guidelines, background checks will be conducted in this recruitment. In this recruitment, psychological tests may be used as part of the selection process. The place of employment is Malmö.

Would you like to know more about the Swedish Social Insurance Agency as an employer? Visit fk.se/jobbahososs

Contact persons

Manager: Marcus Jonsson, 010-114 23 91 (for questions about the position). HR specialist: Fanny Secher, 010-112 22 96, [email protected] (for questions about the recruitment process). ST: Marina Storelv Karlsen, 010-111 92 43, Saco-S: Anton Gustafsson, 010-111 92 43, Seko: Eliza Grundström, 010-115 34 02.

Application

Welcome with your application by January 26. Please upload your diplomas, grades, and certificates along with your application.

If you have protected personal information or no access to BankID, please call the HR specialist named in the ad for assistance in submitting your application.

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