Security Coordinator

Do you want to work in a central and socially important role where you contribute to safety and security? We are now looking for a security coordinator who wants to work both strategically and operationally to develop our security work.

Welcome with your application!

You are offered

• a varied role with a combination of both strategic and operational tasks
• the opportunity to work with socially important issues related to security and safety
• close collaboration with management, operations, and external actors
• a professional work environment where engagement, collaboration, and quality are valued.

Of course, you will also benefit from our general benefits that Karolinska University Hospital offers you.

About the position

As a security coordinator, you will work together with others to coordinate and develop our security work. You will work both strategically and operationally with issues that include:

• Security protection
• Physical security and safety in our properties
• Risk and vulnerability analyses (RSA)
• Threat, risk, and security assessments
• Personal safety, threats, and violence
• Handling and investigating incidents
• Security planning for visits, various types of events, etc.
• Development of routines, instructions, and action plans within the security area.
• Continuity planning
• Collaboration with external actors such as police and rescue services.
• Training in security issues.

The strategic work involves creating, implementing, and following up on governing documents, routines, policies, and guidelines within security and safety. The role has a clear holistic perspective and aims to ensure that governance is understandable, usable, and anchored in the organization.

In the role, you will support management and managers in security-related issues, where your ability to analyze needs, see connections, and translate strategy into practical implementation is central. Through a pedagogical approach, you contribute to creating engagement and understanding, thereby ensuring a safe and secure environment. You work closely with both operations and relevant parties, including contracted security companies.

You act as an expert and handle interest assessments and impact assessments according to the Camera Surveillance Act related to GDPR. You also act as an expert regarding the applicable NIS 2 and CER directives focusing on physical security and personal safety.

The position is classified in a security class and requires a successful security clearance.

We are looking for someone who

• is calm, secure, and stable. You have the ability to see things realistically and make the right priorities based on the situation
• takes responsibility and works independently to plan and drive your tasks forward
• is strategic and can see both long-term effects and consequences of your decisions and actions
• communicates clearly and contributes to good collaboration by being open, helpful, and solution-focused
• has high integrity and creates a stable and professional work environment.
• keeps updated on the latest developments related to your profession and the surrounding world. You have a strong interest in both security issues and social issues.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability for the role.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Relevant university degree or post-secondary education in security and preparedness that the employer assesses as equivalent
• Several years of experience in security work in a similar role
• Good knowledge of legislation in the security area
• Good skills and can express yourself well in the Swedish language both orally and in writing

Meritorious:

• Experience in assessing physical protection and the need for security measures and requirements for security measures in projects, procurements, and similar
• Experience in leading projects and/or coordinating workgroups
• Previous work with internal security work within public operations
• A high digital maturity and understanding of the technical development of security issues
• Experience in working with security protection
• Experience in working with personal safety as well as threats and violence.

About the recruitment process

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

In connection with your application, you need to attach your CV. Instead of a personal letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly motivate why you are suitable for the role. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

Warm welcome with your application - Together we are Karolinska!

Before filling a position that involves the care of children and youth, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and criminal records. Read more here (https://www.karolinska.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekrytering-pa-karolinska/).

As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be placed in wartime. Read more here (https://www.karolinska.se/jobba-hos-oss/var-arbetsplats/totalforsvarsplikt-allman-tjansteplikt-och-krigsplaceringar-pa-karolinska-universitetssjukhuset/).

If you are or have previously been employed in Region Stockholm, we will take internal references from your current or previous manager if you become a candidate for employment.

For permanent positions, a probationary period may be applied.

About Karolinska University Hospital

We at Karolinska University Hospital are proud to be one of the world's leading university hospitals. In addition to our special responsibility for highly specialized care in the Stockholm region, our main mission is to educate the healthcare professionals of the future together with Karolinska Institute and conduct world-leading research while continuing our work to develop care for the patient's best. We work in a variety of areas and professions.

Our vision - We will cure and relieve tomorrow what no one can cure and relieve today.

Please read more about us at www.karolinska.se (https://www.karolinska.se/) and follow us on social media!

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