Lawyer for the Interpreters and Translators Unit

Location: Härnösand

Are you an experienced and pedagogical lawyer who wants to use your legal expertise to support us in our development journey? The Kammarkollegiet offers you a chance to be part of an important societal mission. You will primarily be a supportive legal resource for the operations but will also handle your own cases.

Are you our future colleague?

We are now looking for an experienced lawyer for the Interpreters and Translators Unit, which belongs to the Administrative Law Department. The unit has about twelve employees, five of the positions are located at the office in Härnösand, which this position is also. The other positions are located at our office in Stockholm.

The unit's mission is to design and conduct knowledge assessments for interpreters and translators through written and oral tests and to assess their suitability for the profession. We conduct authorization tests for interpreters in approximately 45 languages and authorization tests for translators in approximately 40 languages. We also supervise those who are authorized and are responsible for registering trained interpreters.

The office is located in nice premises centrally in Härnösand. In the same premises, there are other authorities with which we share a cafeteria and have common areas for meetings and coffee breaks to create social interaction with other civil servants.

Job Responsibilities

The work as a lawyer with us involves a wide variety of tasks within the unit's area of operations and provides a great opportunity to deepen and become an expert. With a coaching approach, you support the handling of cases, develop colleagues in legal application and subject matters, and carry out referral and regulatory work. You identify and analyze issues that need development and establish requirements for improvements, maintain and acquire knowledge, and monitor and develop standards, guidelines, and practices. Supervision and renewal of authorizations will also be part of your duties.

You will conduct legal investigations and write opinions to the court in appeal cases and participate in oral hearings in administrative courts when such become relevant. You will handle and make decisions in your own cases.

The work involves contacts with parties in cases, industry organizations, and collaboration with external actors.

As there is sometimes a high workload in the unit, it is important that you are flexible and see it as a given to support your colleagues. We also expect you to actively contribute to our joint development work and strive for simple, legally secure, and digital working methods.

You will have a structured collaboration with other lawyers in the department to ensure common practices and collegial exchange in legal matters.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• Law degree (180 credits/270 ECTS)
• At least four years of current experience handling qualified administrative law cases at a government agency
• Clerkship or work as a rapporteur at a court or as a process leader at an agency or equivalent experience
• Very good knowledge of the Swedish language in speech and writing
• Good knowledge of English in speech and writing

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience in conveying knowledge with a coaching approach to ensure high quality in legal application at the agency
• Experience from regulatory work
• Experience in change and development work

Personal Characteristics

The tasks require that you can be both driving and supportive in various processes and that you are good at prioritizing between different tasks. As a person, you are responsible, quality-conscious, and structured. You have a coaching approach and good communicative skills.

We work in different operational groups within the unit, and therefore it is important that you can work both independently and in a group and that you enjoy belonging to a unit.

We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

More Information

Start date by agreement. We apply a six-month probationary period. Possibility for remote work exists as far as the operations allow. Travel to the office in Stockholm occurs regularly and is included in the position.

Application

Welcome with your application, including CV, by February 1, 2026.

Contact Persons

Sara Raneke, unit manager, phone 08-700 08 72
Karin Edstrand, Saco-S, phone 08-700 08 48
Lisa Ericsson, ST, phone 08-700 06 40

Other

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