Ref: 20260047

The Department of Sustainability and Committee is seeking a lawyer with knowledge and a strong interest in public administration.

Responsibilities

As an administrative lawyer with us, you will play a central role in ensuring legally secure processes within secondary education and adult education. Your main task involves ensuring legal processes and cases and contributing to maintaining high competence in public legislation. You assist both managers and other employees with legal matters.

In the role of administrative lawyer, you assist colleagues in assessments during the exercise of authority according to educational legislation and in documentation of cases, which may also involve the development of guidelines, routines, forms, and other supporting documents. Additionally, you handle certain supervisory, complaint, and student cases and work with PUB agreements. Other legal matters such as quality assurance of contracts and agreements may also be included in the position.

We offer individual professional development and a position where you become part of a stimulating work environment alongside experienced administrative lawyers as colleagues.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Law degree (270 credits)
Experience working as a lawyer in public administration
Good digital competence
Very good Swedish and English in speech and writing.

Meritorious:

Experience working as a lawyer in educational administration, focusing on secondary and adult education.

Furthermore, we would like you to have legal competence in the following areas:

School law
Administrative law and municipal law
Public access and secrecy law
GDPR and information security.

To succeed in this position, you are attentive and accommodating in your work, and have a strong desire to help others and deliver solutions. Additionally, you plan, organize, and prioritize your work effectively while adhering to set deadlines. The position requires you to be receptive and possess the ability to adapt to different types of situations. You contribute to dialogue and accountability, and convey messages so that they have the intended effect. You also enjoy handling complex issues, analyzing, and solving problems. You value diversity and understand how background, culture, and group affiliation affect yourself and others.

About the workplace

In the Department of Sustainability and Committee, administrative lawyers, archivists, chief registrars, committee secretaries, and investigation secretaries work. The department works, among other things, with legal advice, document and case management, processing school law cases, and writing committee matters. In our department, cross-administrative processes and follow-up of cross-administrative goal documents are coordinated.

The Secondary and Adult Education Administration is one of three school administrations in Malmö City. We are responsible for the development and implementation of secondary education and adult education. Today, we are about 1800 employees, and we are located throughout Malmö. We work to ensure that young people and adults achieve their educational goals and become active in our society. We exist to create the best possible conditions for the residents of Malmö to grow through lifelong learning.

The operations of Malmö City are organized into 14 administrations. Our common mission is to create welfare and sustainable community development. Together with the residents of Malmö, we are developing an even better city to live, work, and be in; diversity, life experiences, and talents make Malmö a smart city in the heart of Europe. The world's knowledge is here.

Read about Malmö City as an employer here malmo.se/jobb (https://malmo.se/jobb)

Information about the position

Employment type: Permanent position
Scope: Full-time
Number of positions: 1
Start date: By agreement

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Please note that we in Malmö City have removed the personal letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions, this for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you applying for a job with us. Your answers will be an important part of our selection work.

Malmö City strives for employees to represent the diversity that exists in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to our ability as an employer to meet the needs of Malmö residents.