Vacant job

The municipality of Jönköping is a large employer with hundreds of different job roles. We are growing in line with the development of the municipality with more residents, more housing, and a larger range of services. We are always on the lookout for new skills - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you have experience in health-promoting leadership and driving development in complex assignments? Then an exciting opportunity awaits you to step into the role of Deputy Area Manager – a key position where you will help shape the future social support for adults.

Your new job

The management team of the adult area has developed a common starting point and direction for the area's leadership and development work. We are now looking for an engaged and goal-oriented Deputy Area Manager who wants to lead the continued work together with us.

The leadership within the adult area should, in accordance with the overall stance of the social administration, be characterized by health-promoting leadership based on trust, knowledge, and learning, where employees' knowledge and resources are utilized for development in a direction that creates value for citizens. As a Deputy Area Manager, you will be organizationally subordinate to the Area Manager, who is also responsible for the operational management of the assignment. The role includes being a support to the Area Manager and unit managers in management tasks based on responsibility for both citizens, employees' work environment, and finances. The role also includes a special responsibility for leading and ensuring the systematics and documentation of the area's ongoing development work.

The position of Deputy Area Manager is a new position, which means that a joint effort will be made to work together with the Area Manager and the management team to clarify tasks and areas of responsibility.

The mission of the adult area is to provide social support to adults based on the following areas: harmful use and dependence, support to leave a criminal lifestyle, victims of violence, perpetrators of violence, support for individuals who sell and buy sex for compensation, and social emergency services. Our operations are located in different parts of Jönköping municipality. Your workplace will be at Västra Storgatan 16 in Jönköping.

Your qualifications

You have a completed and approved university degree of at least 180 credits (bachelor's degree), either as a social worker or in behavioral sciences, community-oriented education, or other education with a university degree that the employer assesses as equivalent. You have documented management experience in social work. You also have previously documented experience in leading, implementing, and following up development work. Work experience in social work is a requirement. You have excellent knowledge of the Swedish language, can express yourself easily in both speech and writing, and have very good computer skills.

You have a great ability to independently plan your work in a structured manner and thrive in a changing environment. You have the ability to see the big picture, good collaboration skills, and are a role model in your interactions, both internally and externally.

It is meritorious if you have documented management experience from individual and family care as well as experience from working in a politically governed organization. Experience in being a manager of managers is also meritorious.

A valid driver's license (B) is required for the position.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability!

We offer you

A strategic, varied, and meaningful job with engaged colleagues. Together we raise our sights and utilize skills and experience to develop interventions with good quality – that make a real difference for the citizens the organization exists for.

As a Deputy Area Manager, you will have, through regular check-ins, strong support from the Area Manager and you will be part of a well-functioning management team. Within the administration, you will also have access to support functions such as economists, HR and recruitment consultants, and communicators.

We offer you as a manager individual salary setting. Read more about our benefits here (https://www.jonkoping.se/jobba-hos-oss/jonkopings-kommun-som-arbetsgivare-/detta-far-du-nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss).

Welcome to us

The core mission of the social administration is to meet citizens' basic needs for support, care, and security according to applicable legislation and politically assigned missions. The operations should be based on a health-promoting approach where citizens' resources are utilized and strengthened through self-determination, participation, and influence. The social administration includes the functions of elderly care, disability care, individual and family care, and health and medical care functions.

The individual and family care department is responsible for ensuring that families and individuals receive services, information, advice, support, treatment, financial support, and other assistance according to, among other things, the Social Services Act (SoL), the Act on Care of Abusers in Certain Cases (LVM), and the Act with Special Provisions on the Care of Young People (LVU).

Good to know

The recruitment concerns a full-time position as Deputy Area Manager with a start date by agreement. A probationary period will be applied.

The application should include a personal letter, CV, attached diploma, and service certificates from previous employment. All employment must be verified, and it needs to be clear to what extent you have worked, what type of employment has been relevant, and what position you have held. Applications that lack this will not be prioritized.

Interviews for the position will take place on February 17th. If you apply for the position and are called for an interview, you need to be available on this day. In addition to the interview, testing tools and work samples will be applied.

Before any employment, a background check will be conducted where you must be able to present an extract from the criminal record. In this recruitment, the extract called “Check your own information in the criminal record” applies.

Want to know more?

Recruiting manager, see the information box. Union representatives: here (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligasoc).

Together we make Jönköping municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position!

The municipality of Jönköping strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.