Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions

We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

The Social Administration of the City of Stockholm has an overarching and coordinating role for social services' individual and family care and the area of disabilities. Here, we create good conditions to meet residents in need of social services support. In close cooperation with the district administrations, we contribute to a modern, digital, legally secure, equal, and knowledge-based social service, and we have a strong focus on development. Within the administration, a wide range of support measures is offered to the city's residents, and the range changes based on the needs of Stockholmers and the wishes of the district administrations. The work often takes place in close collaboration with other authorities, civil society, and the business community. The Social Administration is also responsible for the city's serving and tobacco permits and conducts supervision.

Welcome to us

Do you want to help build a completely new citywide function for housing placements?

We are looking for you who want to take a key role in an important societal function where your contributions make a difference for children, young people, and adults in need of external housing solutions.

Welcome to a dynamic work environment where you get to be involved from the start and shape working methods, processes, and structures in an important operation for the city's social services.

The area of expertise in disabilities and social psychiatry consists of three units. We are a team with broad competence in social services and the area of disabilities working with overarching assignments and projects to support the city's social services. Here, among others, investigators, project managers, and caseworkers work.

We are now looking for more colleagues for the central placement unit. Our office is located in the pleasant Farsta Centrum, close to the subway, restaurants, and shopping, making it easy to get here.

We offer

A unique opportunity to be part of building a new and important operation from the ground up in a development-oriented and quality-focused organization.

You will be offered a meaningful and varied job where your contributions make a real difference in people's lives. The work involves collaboration in a broad network of both internal and external actors, where you will be an important link in an important mission. You will become part of an experienced and competent workgroup, with good opportunities for both personal and professional development. Benefits as an employee of the City of Stockholm, including flexible hours, wellness allowance, vacation exchange, and more. Please read more about our benefits HERE (#).

"It is not often that you get the chance to be involved from the beginning and create an operation that really makes a difference, for people, for social services, and for the entire city."
– Chatarina Rehnström, unit manager, Social Administration of the City of Stockholm

Your role

As a contract administrator, you will work closely with both the units of the social administration, the city's district administrations, and external providers, which means your daily work is characterized by many points of contact and varied tasks.

In the role, you and your team are responsible for establishing structures and working methods for the new function. In collaboration with placement administrators, you will support the processing of incoming placement requests from the district administrations, which includes both placement requests and price negotiations with external providers. You will be responsible for the contracts, their documentation and requirements, and you will follow up on the contracts through visits to the operations. This may include travel both in the local area and other parts of Sweden.

Through continuous dialogue with both providers and district administrations, you work to ensure quality and good results.

Your competence and experience

To thrive and succeed in the role of contract administrator, we believe you are structured and proactive. You have a long-term perspective and can work strategically while managing complex and time-consuming processes with calm and stability. Furthermore, you are communicative, relationship-building, and enjoy creating good collaborations both internally and externally. You are comfortable working both independently and in teams.

We are looking for you who have:

• Degree in social work, law education, or other relevant higher education
• Experience in contract follow-up according to LoU of external providers for housing
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and experience in negotiations
• Experience as a purchaser of housing interventions
• Experience with difficult placements within individual and family care or LSS.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Experience from provider operations within HVB or special housing within LSS, preferably in a managerial position
• Experience as a purchaser of housing interventions within the City of Stockholm's organization
• Familiarity with the City of Stockholm's level assessments and compensation systems
• Law education.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities, your commitment, and your motivation for the position.

Other

We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences we value to drive the development of the unit. In assessing your application, we will only consider your CV and a number of questions you will be asked to answer when applying for the position. We wish for you to respond concretely and succinctly to the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV.

Do you want to help shape the future of social services in Stockholm? Welcome with your application!

We look forward to receiving your application and hearing how you want to contribute to our new central function for purchasing external housing. Together we make a difference!

The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competencies and thereby combating discrimination.