Welcome to Sundsvall Municipality!

Sundsvall Municipality is one of the largest employers in Norrland with around 8,000 employees and over 300 professions. Together, we fulfill one of the most important missions in society – to create benefit and value for residents, businesses, and future generations. Regardless of the activity, we work towards the same goal: to be a great place to live, work, and thrive.

We are currently in an exciting phase of development. We are a pioneer in digital development and artificial intelligence, leading the work to create smart solutions for the future public sector.

Sundsvall plays a central role in the green transition in northern Sweden. We are convinced that the right places for this transition are here. As a municipality, we are preparing to grow by preparing land, creating new educational opportunities, marketing the municipality, and welcoming new residents from around the world.

Your new workplace

The Outdoor Museums unit is responsible for operations at the municipality's three prioritized cultural heritage sites: Norra berget, Svartviks industrial heritage, and Gudmundstjärn.

The unit has about 12 permanent employees, and during the summer months, temporary staff are brought in to strengthen the workforce.

As a manager, you are responsible for developing the unit's operations at Norra berget, Svartvik, and Gudmundstjärn in the areas of: maintenance and operation, animals, knowledge dissemination, and museum pedagogy, as well as rentals and events.

We warmly welcome your application today if you are interested in a new challenge and want to be part of the journey to continue developing the outdoor museums and their activities!

How you contribute in the role of unit manager

As a unit manager, you lead and distribute work within the unit and are responsible for personnel, budget, and work environment. You are also responsible for the dialogue with the prioritized cultural heritage partners, which includes other departments within the municipality as well as external actors such as private entrepreneurs and associations.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate the daily work of the Outdoor Museums within the unit's operational areas at Norra berget, Gudmundstjärn, and Svartviks industrial heritage.
• Lead the operational planning for the Outdoor Museums and follow up on it.
• Lead the unit's systematic work environment efforts.
• Lead the unit's systematic fire safety work.
• Participate in the department's budget work, be responsible for and follow up on the unit's budget, and handle invoices and other financial tasks related to the unit's operations and employees.
• Personnel administration within the unit such as recruitment, staffing, scheduling, employee conversations, rehabilitation cases, and other administration.
• Conduct procurements and develop agreements.
• Participate in the department's Library, Culture, and Museums management group and other management and governance contexts relevant to the unit.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for someone with post-secondary education in one or more of the areas of cultural heritage, museums, tourism/visitor industry, social sciences, or equivalent work experience. You have experience with personnel responsibility, such as a manager or team leader. You also have experience working with outreach/public activities within the cultural heritage or museum sector, or tourism/visitor industry, or similar.

You also have:

• Good Swedish language skills in both spoken and written form.
• Good computer skills and knowledge of the Office suite.
• Category B driver's license.

We consider the following as merits:

• Leadership training.
• Experience with responsibility for operations with broad content.

As a person, you are secure and stable with good self-awareness and the ability to distinguish between the personal and professional, which allows you to handle complex situations in a balanced and professional manner. You take responsibility for driving the operations forward independently while making well-founded decisions and creating clarity in your leadership. As a leader, you motivate and inspire others while providing employees with the right conditions and authority to achieve common goals. You also have good collaboration skills and are skilled at building good relationships. With your flexibility and adaptability, you see opportunities in challenges. You combine structure with a creative approach, thereby contributing to the development of the operations.

If you are interested in being part of our dedicated team and contributing to creating positive changes for our citizens, apply today and become part of our work for a sustainable Sundsvall!

Good to know

Are you interested in learning more about Sundsvall? Click on www.sundsvall.se (http://www.sundsvall.se) or if you are interested in what it would be like to live and work in Sundsvall, you can read more.

We strive for a drug-free work environment, and drug testing may occur upon hiring. We apply a smoke-free working time policy.

In Sundsvall Municipality, we embrace diversity and welcome employees from various backgrounds. We value the contribution that gender balance and diversity bring to our operations and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to all.

To quality assure the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply for the position through the link in this ad.

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