Do you want to help develop communication in Region Östergötland for the benefit of patients, residents, and employees?

Our Offer

For the life ahead.

Region Östergötland has high ambitions and a responsible mission. It is about health and care, about the development of our region, and about those who live and stay here. We want to continue to be at the forefront, with care, research, and education. It is about daring to think new – and having the best employees. Therefore, we offer unique opportunities for further learning and invest in modern environments with effective systems and tools. Many of us meet patients and relatives, while others create the conditions for life-saving interventions. With us, fantastic people work towards the same goal – to make a real difference, and for the life ahead.

Please read about your benefits with us.

Job Description

As a communication strategist, you will play an important role in developing communication in Region Östergötland. You will provide qualified communication support to management, managers, and operations and be responsible for communication in connection with larger projects, activities, and changes.

In the role of communication strategist with a focus on brand and profile-creating communication, you will develop strategies to build and strengthen Region Östergötland's brand. This includes developing the region's brand platform.

Your work will involve coordinating and maintaining the planning of content and messages in the region's various channels both internally and externally together with colleagues in our communication units. You will follow the national debate, capture current topics and events, and transform them into proactive communication.

You will make strategic assessments, analyze communication needs, formulate messages, and plan, implement, and follow up on communication efforts. You will work long-term but can also deliver when time is tight and have the ability to work both strategically and operationally.

About You

You have a university degree in media and communication studies or equivalent.

You have experience in brand work in a larger organization.

You have experience leading and coaching others.

You have worked with communication both strategically and operationally and have experience working with news, social media, and web.

Experience from the public sector is an advantage.

Experience in press work and/or crisis communication is also an advantage.

You are strategic and have the ability to see different perspectives, connections, and make trade-offs. You are constructive and can easily adapt to changing conditions. You will have many contacts with various operations within the region, so you need to be attentive and have a good ability to collaborate and build relationships. Being interested in people and having an interest in social issues is essential for you to thrive with us.

We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities where we see that you are driven, coaching, can collaborate, and create engagement and participation.

We Offer You

You will have the opportunity to become part of Region Östergötland – an organization that is in the midst of a journey with a broad and challenging communication mission. We are a change- and development-oriented and highly specialized operation with the residents' best interests at heart. We give you the opportunity to develop and to influence how communicative our organization should be.

Application and Employment

The position is located in the unit for planned communication and media, which together with the unit for digital communication is the region's specialist function in communication. Before employment in a patient-facing role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill out a form (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500).

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