Operations Manager for High School and Adapted High School

There is now an exciting opportunity for you who want to influence the high school and the adapted high school in Sandviken municipality.

At the Knowledge Office, about thirty employees work with expertise in student health, finance, HR, administration, and IT. Here, engagement and knowledge come together to provide the support that the operations need to succeed. We are currently undergoing a reorganization that strengthens our ability to provide coordinated, legally secure, and operationally close support. The change means clearer governance, a more transparent structure, and consolidated expertise in areas such as IT. The goal is to create better collaboration, more efficient processes, and an organization that develops together.

The new operational area includes High School, adapted high school, led by a principal, as well as administrative support with a unit of six employees working with operational development and regulatory activities.

With us, we make each other better. We share knowledge, lift each other's strengths, and are open to new ideas. Support is available when needed, and there is a climate where collaboration and solutions are at the center. A warm welcome to us.

In Sandviken municipality, we make each other better. Our culture is characterized by a holistic view, collaboration, and dialogue, where managers and employees together create value for the citizens of Sandviken.

When we take advantage of each other's differences and work towards common goals, we build a sustainable, developing, and successful municipality. Together we make Sandviken municipality better!

Are you curious to read more about Sandviken municipality, our benefits, and what it is like to work with us?

Please visit our pages: https://sandviken.se/arbete-och-karriar (https://sandviken.se/arbete-och-karriar)

Sandviken municipality's preschools and schools are governed by both national and municipal goals. Each unit follows up and evaluates its operations, conducts a result analysis, and formulates development measures. It is of utmost importance that everyone in the organization sees and takes responsibility for the common mission to achieve a quality education system, where children and students, regardless of background, can develop as far as possible. Under the heading Education & Preschool, www.sandviken.se (https://www.sandviken.se) provides further information about preschool and school.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As the operations manager for high school and the adapted high school, as well as administrative support, you will:

• Be responsible for strategic and operational leadership and development within the operational area
• Support the principal in systematic quality work, follow-up, and analysis
• Ensure that the operations comply with the Education Act, curriculum, and municipal goals
• Lead and coordinate the tasks of the operational developers in the administration
• Ensure legally secure handling of the administration's regulatory activities
• Coordinate the principal's systematic quality work at the administrative level
• Coordinate the administration's tasks within Sandviken municipality's Governance and Management, which includes, for example, committee plans and performance reporting, and be responsible for cohesive strategic governance and follow-up.

In the role, you are expected to:

• Contribute to a cohesive and development-oriented administration
• Ensure that decisions and actions are based on a holistic perspective and common goals
• Create structures that promote collaboration, dialogue, and learning between school forms and support functions

QUALIFICATIONS

To succeed in the role, we believe that you are an experienced, development-oriented, and structured leader who has experience working with change processes in complex contexts. You have good collaboration skills and a flexible approach based on trust in your employees. Furthermore, you have a good ability to see the whole and drive strategic development issues.

You have:

• Relevant academic education
• Experience in strategic leadership within a politically governed organization
• Managerial experience

Meritorious

• Experience leading in a matrix organization or with shared responsibility
• Experience being a manager of managers.
• Experience in law, committee work, and quality follow-up.
• Knowledge of education legislation and the principal's responsibilities
• Academic leadership development
• We are looking for someone who is relationship-building, communicative, and enjoys a varied role with many contact areas and collaboration areas.

OTHER

We are recruiting in parallel with this process for a corresponding position for preschools. We see nothing negative in applying for both positions. In Sandviken municipality, a time-limited managerial appointment is applied with a permanent employment as the basis.

A warm welcome with your application!

What happens when you apply for the position

If you have questions or similar, please feel free to contact Tomas Danebäck at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). In this process, we work with ongoing selection and appointment, which means that the position can be filled before the application deadline. When you have expressed interest in the position, we match your application with the position and contact you via email or phone for feedback. You will also be asked to answer some questions from our AI assistant. Regarding the application, it is done via the advertisement on OnePartnerGroup's website; we do not handle applications via email due to GDPR.

Do you want to know what it is like to live, work, and thrive in Sandviken municipality? Perhaps you are considering moving to Sandviken? We have gathered information specifically for you on our pages: https://sandviken.se/hellosandviken (https://sandviken.se/hellosandviken)

If you have a protected identity, we ask you not to submit your application digitally via our recruitment system. More information on how to proceed instead can be found at www.sandviken.se/ledigajobb (https://www.sandviken.se/ledigajobb)