About the Role and Your Responsibilities

As a unit manager, you will have operational responsibility and accountability for the unit's internal planning, resources, and development.

You will have personnel responsibility for the unit's 9 employees who are specialists in various areas of responsibility. Since the unit has a new composition of employees, you will initially build good structures and collaboration areas as well as create a strong team spirit. You will work to ensure that the unit has a good support and service spirit with high quality and that the work carried out is in line with applicable legislation. In your assignment, you will also work strategically to lead, coordinate, and together with employees develop the unit's processes so that they are purposeful, efficient, and sustainable, driving the operations forward towards decided goals and plans.

The unit for committees and legal affairs will be responsible for developing cross-administrative structures and routines, support materials, and action plans related to regulatory activities, thus serving as a guarantee that the principal fulfills its mission in accordance with applicable legislation.

Regarding the committee process, you will ensure that the political process is followed in accordance with applicable legislation and the municipality's established governing documents, and that the preparation process is purposeful and of high quality. We strive for continuous development of routines and working methods. This means having a good and responsive dialogue with politics, administration, and your employees.

Your assignment also includes being responsible for leading, developing, and coordinating the administration's project and process model and being the administration's expert competence in this area. This work also involves coordinating the administration's project portfolio and supporting the administration's work with the implementation of changed working methods that lead to organizational development. You will support organizational development by moving between areas that span IT and digitalization tools, administration, regulatory activities, and communication.

We Are Looking for You

You have a university or college degree, e.g., in political science, law, social sciences, or another direction that the employer deems relevant. It is advantageous if you also have training in leadership or project or process management.

You have previous experience working as a manager in public operations, e.g., in administration, financial administration, or regulatory activities. Furthermore, you have experience leading, developing, and coordinating processes and projects, as well as experience in organizational development. It is advantageous if you have experience working with committee processes, municipal governance and organization, school governance and working methods, school legal issues, case management, regulatory activities, or project management.

Your knowledge of municipal administration and political processes is good, and you have very good knowledge of the Swedish language and can express yourself well in both speech and writing, as well as good system competence. It is advantageous if you have experience with the process mapping system 2c8 or equivalent.

An important task for you as a unit manager is to plan, create structure, and coordinate activities to drive the operations forward, towards decided goals and plans. A strong focus is on creating engagement and participation among your employees. You are a present, clear, and communicative leader who prioritizes the best interests of the organization in actions and decisions. You drive and implement change.

Your leadership is characterized by long-term sustainability, a structured approach, and a holistic view of the organization.

In this recruitment, we have chosen to replace the personal letter with some selection questions that we ask you to answer at the time of application. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process. In this recruitment, we have also chosen to apply rolling selection and would like you to submit your application as soon as possible.

The first interviews will be conducted on February 27 from 8 AM to 4 PM and on March 2 from 8 AM to 4 PM. Please free up time in your calendar.

Warm welcome with your application!

We Offer You

As an employee with us, you will be offered a range of benefits focused on balance, security, and health. Lund Municipality is a large organization with many exciting operations and opportunities for employee development. As an employee, you will also have access to our benefits portal where you can easily see and manage your benefits.

About the Workplace

Within the department of the Secretariat, several of the administration's supporting functions are gathered. A total of about 20 people work in specialist functions within the department, such as administrative functions, administrative lawyers, regulatory case workers, school transport coordinators, chief registrars, committee secretaries, and planning secretaries.

The department currently consists of two units, the Unit for Placements and Administrative Management and the Regulatory Unit. Furthermore, the employees working with the committee process are organized directly under the department head. The department will undergo a reorganization starting April 1 and will consist of two units: the Unit for Placements and Administrative Management and the Unit for Committees and Legal Affairs.

We are now looking for someone who wants to take on the role of unit manager with special responsibility for the administration's project and process model as well as project portfolio. We offer you a developing role with many collaboration areas where you can influence both form and content. You will meet a department with a good atmosphere and a manager who leads with great trust.

In the Child and School Administration, we work to create equity and good conditions for all children and students within our preschools, primary schools, and adapted primary schools to achieve their goals. Together, we work for a uniform and clear governance of preschool and school in a modern and efficient organization, with the goal of enabling world-class education. Our ambitions are high, and we always strive to create good conditions for development and maintain high quality in our operations.

Here, you will have space to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we place knowledge at the center and create opportunities for development in working life. We offer an inclusive work environment and the chance to influence and make a difference. Do you want to be one of us?