Unit Manager for the Landscape Unit at the Community Building Department

Huddinge is a growing municipality in Stockholm with proximity to both the city and nature. As an employee with us, you are an important community builder. Together, we create a sustainable society for everyone who lives, visits, and works in Huddinge.

The municipal executive office operates on behalf of the municipal council. We lead, manage, support, and follow up to ensure that the entire municipality is run efficiently and purposefully. In total, we are about 400 employees distributed across five departments. In everything we do, we start from the perspective that it should benefit those who live, visit, or work in the municipality.

About the Workplace

The position is located in the Traffic and Landscape Section of the Community Building Department in Huddinge municipality. The Traffic and Landscape Section is responsible for creating good conditions for attractive and safe public environments for everyone and for sustainable travel. The section is responsible for planning, designing, and constructing parks, playgrounds, and squares. The section plans and shapes the municipality's outdoor environments, from the vision in the early stages to realization in implementation. The focus is on people with the aim of creating a sustainable society and a well-designed living environment.

Within the Community Building Department, there are four additional sections: the Strategic Section, Land and Development, the Planning Section, and the Street Project Section. The department has about 120 employees and is responsible for Huddinge's physical development, from comprehensive planning to the expansion of public spaces. The department works towards the Community Building Committee of the municipal council.

About the Job

As a unit manager, you will lead a team of eight landscape architects. The job involves close collaboration with the section manager and other unit managers to solve the section's assignments. The unit's task is to plan and develop the municipality's public environments such as parks, playgrounds, bathing areas, and squares. As a unit manager, you will drive landscape architecture issues in both development and investment projects. You will guide the work of producing comprehensive planning documents and strategies for how public environments should be developed and concretize these into plans with goals and actions. The unit's tasks also include contributing landscape architecture expertise in detailed planning work.

As a unit manager, you are responsible for allocating resources in the most efficient way to achieve the municipality's overarching goals of economic, social, and ecological sustainability. In this role, you will foster an environment that encourages collaboration and team spirit, creativity, and continuous improvements with a strong focus on the whole. You actively work with the unit's resource planning to ensure a healthy and balanced workload for employees.

You work to break down the vision and overarching goals into strategies, action and time plans, and impact descriptions, ensuring these are followed up and adjusted as needed. This also includes producing project directives, investigation orders, and quality follow-ups. An important part of your work is to collaborate with other sections in the Community Building Department and departments within the municipal executive office. Furthermore, you will participate in collaborative forums for the municipality's other administrations and external actors.

As a unit manager, you will have budget, operational, and personnel responsibility within the unit. The job also includes responding to referrals and oral presentations for politicians, citizens, etc.

Your Profile

We want you to have an academic degree in landscape architecture or equivalent competence. We are looking for someone who focuses on collaboration, engagement, and has a drive to develop the operations forward. You should have at least a few years of experience as a manager/leader. Municipal experience is an advantage.

As a manager in Huddinge municipality, you are a role model based on the municipality's shared values. As a manager, you actively drive change and development work and create understanding and engagement for what needs to be implemented. Your leadership promotes an open collaborative climate, participation in work, and ensures that good ideas are utilized. As a leader, you follow up, provide feedback, and give your employees support and opportunities for development. Leadership for us means achieving results and getting others involved in the work.

Benefits

To fulfill our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge municipality are our most important asset. Therefore, we offer a range of benefits for a sustainable work life and to facilitate your everyday life. Read more about our benefits here. (http://www.huddinge.se/formaner)