Swedish Coast Guard is Hiring Temporary Legal Counsel

The Swedish Coast Guard is a civil government preparedness authority responsible for maritime surveillance and rescue services at sea on behalf of the government and parliament. With our maritime capabilities, the Coast Guard is also an important authority in Sweden's total defense. A key part of the maritime surveillance mission is to ensure safety in Sweden's maritime zones. This is achieved through crime prevention, monitoring, and maintaining order. The Coast Guard's rescue mission encompasses a wide range of different rescue operations, including environmental rescue efforts in case of accidents or spills and rescue operations in case of shipwrecks or emergencies.

The Coast Guard serves as a maritime hub that ensures a civil maritime situation picture for Sweden and that other authorities have access to the maritime capabilities they need for their missions. A significant part of the Coast Guard's mission is to support other parts of society based on the expertise the authority possesses.

The Coast Guard is a workplace characterized by collaboration and commitment across boundaries. Here, you will find dedicated employees with varying competencies, creating a dynamic workplace with constant opportunities to learn new things. The Coast Guard focuses heavily on employee engagement and leadership, making it essential that your values align with those of the Coast Guard—holistic view, goodwill, and commitment. The Coast Guard offers an attractive workplace that strives to be free from discrimination and provide equal opportunities and rights for all.

Description

The Swedish Coast Guard is seeking a temporary legal counsel for the legal unit, located in Karlskrona, Malmö, or Gothenburg.

As a legal counsel, your main responsibilities will include providing internal legal advice, primarily related to the Coast Guard's responsibilities for rescue services at sea and maritime surveillance.

Maritime surveillance includes coordination and dissemination of maritime information, control and supervision activities within customs and border control, police monitoring and maintaining order, as well as crime prevention activities. The legal advice will also cover issues related to civil protection and total defense, public access to information and confidentiality, administrative law, labor law, contract law, procurement, personal data processing and data protection, as well as information security, operational protection, and maritime safety.

Your tasks will also include monitoring national, EU, and international legal developments within the authority's area, developing and revising the authority's governing documents, and conducting legal quality reviews of decisions and other documents prepared within the authority.

This position is advertised in several locations. Apply for the position here: https://kustbevakningen.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:897592/ (https://kustbevakningen.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:897592/)

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• Law degree (jur.kand. /juristexamen).
• Several years of experience in qualified legal work.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

It is advantageous if you also have:

• Experience and competence in legal work related to data protection, administrative law, information exchange, or public access to information and confidentiality.
• Several years of experience working within the Coast Guard's operational area, the judicial system, or another government agency.
• Practical experience with privacy by design and default and risk and impact assessments based on data protection regulations.
• Experience with information exchange.
• Experience working with GDPR and crime data legislation.

To succeed in this role, you need to approach your tasks with a solution-focused and flexible mindset. You have a good ability to quickly switch between different tasks. You are outgoing and thrive in social contexts, have good collaboration skills, and can adapt your communication style to the situation and person. At the same time, you are independent, self-driven, and highly engaged in your work tasks. You are structured with good analytical and administrative skills.

When hiring, we place great emphasis on your personal qualities and abilities.

Conditions

This position is a fixed-term employment in the form of a temporary position for one year. Start date is to be agreed upon.

Business travel is included in the employment, both domestically and internationally.

Swedish citizenship, drug testing, and security clearance according to the Security Protection Act are required for employment. Tests may be conducted during the recruitment process and used in the selection.

The Coast Guard participates in overseas missions and international operations. Therefore, the position includes an obligation to serve abroad when required for the operations.

Other

To ensure quality and efficiency in the recruitment process, we use an electronic application form in collaboration with Varbi for all job openings. Please fill out your application as carefully as possible to provide an accurate representation of yourself.

The Coast Guard is a government authority, which means that the information you provide to us may be disclosed under the principle of public access to information. Normally, no confidentiality applies to the information processed in the database. If you have protected personal data, please contact the contact person specified in the advertisement.

In preparation for the recruitment process, the Coast Guard has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly request no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.