Vacant job

Göteborgs Burial Association is responsible for burial and cremation services within the geographical area of the City of Gothenburg. We have over 200 permanent employees and 120 seasonal and summer substitutes. We manage 36 cemeteries with a total of nearly 119,000 burial plots. Our crematorium performs cremations both within Gothenburg and on behalf of other burial authorities.

We are an organizational unit within the Church of Sweden and we carry out our mission in accordance with the Burial Act. The Burial Association is governed by elected representatives from the nine parishes and congregations of the Church of Sweden in Gothenburg. They are appointed through indirect elections to burial delegates who in turn elect a burial board. The administration is organized into geographically divided maintenance departments, functionally divided units, and an office. The operations have a turnover of approximately 325 million SEK.

Feel free to learn more about us on our website: https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/gbs (https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/gbs)

We are looking for someone to work as a chapel caretaker from the beginning of June to mid-August in the summer of 2026.

You will be part of a team with six other chapel caretakers and a supervisor responsible for staffing our chapels and ceremony venues.

As a person, you are secure, stable, responsible, and structured. You find it easy to collaborate and communicate in a respectful and professional manner with colleagues, partners, and visitors. You value good service and see interaction and communication as important parts of your work. You need to feel comfortable meeting people in grief and in life's more vulnerable situations.

In this role, you will have daily contact with many different people and organizations, such as mourners and visitors, funeral contractors, participants in ceremonies, and flower delivery services.

Job Responsibilities

As a chapel caretaker, you are responsible for chapel services. This means preparing and setting up for ceremonies, participating in burial services, and assisting when relatives say goodbye and during burials.

The work also includes administrative tasks that require accuracy and good organizational skills. A significant part of the job consists of cleaning and simpler property maintenance.

You will work both independently and in close collaboration with colleagues. We expect you to be proactive, flexible, and contribute to a positive work environment. An important part of the role is to be able to meet people in grief.

Qualifications

• Three-year upper secondary education or other education deemed equivalent by the employer
• Driver's license (B)
• Good computer skills
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written
• You are comfortable communicating in English

Meritorious

• Forklift license
• Additional language skills
• Experience from service professions or working with people in grief

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply via our recruitment tool, link provided below, and not via email or mail.

We have a collective agreement, wellness compensation, and actively work for a good work environment.

We kindly but firmly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.