Vacant job

At the Migration Agency, we work with one of the major societal issues of our time – migration. We are about 6,000 people here, and we have an unusually important job!

Are you a skilled lawyer with an interest in leadership?

We are looking for a team leader for the Administrative Process Unit in Gothenburg.

As a team leader within the administrative process, you will have good opportunities to develop in your leadership role. We offer a qualified legal job with great variety. With us, you will work on current societal issues influenced by what happens in our environment. Issues that matter and engage.

Main Responsibilities

As a team leader, you represent the employer and support the immediate manager in the operational management work of the unit. This means that you allocate resources, coordinate and follow up on the team's daily work and report continuously to the unit manager. Through a coaching approach, you guide team members towards results and goal fulfillment and ensure that routines are followed. You drive the work of constantly improving methods and working practices. As a team leader, you contribute to ensuring that the unit has good conditions in terms of a developing work environment, the right competence, reasonable workload, clear goals, and good planning.

In your role, you also act as a decision-maker in urgent matters regarding enforcement obstacles that come into the unit. The work includes reviewing the Police Authority's decisions on expulsion and re-entry bans and other types of cases. The work pace is occasionally intense, and you often need to make decisions under time pressure.

Personal Competencies

You lead, motivate, and empower others with the authority required to effectively achieve common goals. You are guided by goal and result thinking in prioritization, planning, and action. Furthermore, you have the ability to create engagement and participation and work well with others by relating to them in a responsive and smooth manner. You coordinate groups and become a reference point for others. As a team leader, you communicate and resolve conflicts constructively, see the big picture, and take into account the larger perspective. You understand your role but act in the best interest of the entire organization in your actions and decisions. Sometimes you make quick decisions and act on them despite limited information or difficult circumstances.

Requirements

• Law degree
• Current experience of several years of qualified legal work in migration law
• Experience in administrative law, confidentiality, and administrative procedural law
• Good communication skills where you express yourself well in both spoken and written Swedish and English

Merits

• Experience in a leadership role
• Leadership training
• Experience working in a migration court or procedural experience acquired in other ways
• Experience in coaching leadership
• Experience leading change

Information

Employment type: Permanent employment with possible probationary period
Working hours: Office hours
Salary: We apply individual salary setting.
Location: Gothenburg
Start date: As soon as possible by agreement

Want to know more?
If you want to know more about the current role and the unit, contact details for the responsible unit manager are provided below.

Application
Welcome with your application documents by February 13, 2026. We accept your application via our recruitment system.

About the recruitment process
It is important for us to utilize all competencies in the labor market. Therefore, we welcome all applicants and strive for a balanced gender distribution and diversity. As a government agency, we recruit based on merit and skill. You can read more about what this means at this link (https://www.arbetsgivarverket.se/jobba-statligt/fragor-och-svar/Hur-ser-rekryteringsprocessen-ut-for-statliga-jobb/).

We use selection questions during the application. Please answer them as thoroughly as you can, as your responses are important for whether you qualify to proceed in the recruitment process. In some recruitments, we also use tests to assess how well your skills match the position you are applying for. During a possible interview, you may also be asked questions related to security.

If you want to contact union representatives, contact details for Saco-S, Seko, and ST can be found at the bottom of the page here (https://www.migrationsverket.se/om-migrationsverket/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/fragor-och-svar-om-att-soka-jobb-hos-oss.html#svid12_5560a3b619996eafa4b2b0).

To work at the Migration Agency, you need to have the right to reside and work in Sweden on one of the following grounds: Swedish citizenship (required for certain positions), Nordic citizenship, EU citizenship, or permanent residence permit.

If you have protected personal information or other information that you consider to be sensitive, please contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) before you submit your application, and we will tell you more about our security procedures.

Recruitments at the Migration Agency are conducted entirely by ourselves or by contracted suppliers. Therefore, we ask not to receive phone calls and emails from recruitment companies and ad sellers.