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Are you a person who values development, engagement, and care in your work life? Then we would be a great match – because we do too.

By working with us, you contribute to a better everyday life for thousands of people in Marks municipality. Not least your own. With us, you have the opportunity to grow – both as a person and in your professional role, while what you work on helps an entire community to thrive. Regardless of what your tasks are, you will make life a little easier for everyone who lives and works here. And that is something we value highly. Our vision is to be a close-knit municipality with a focus on people. Close to each other, our surroundings, and the future. We want to be a present community that, with calm and warmth, supports our 35,000 residents, 3,600 employees, and thousands of entrepreneurs. Every employee with us becomes significant. Together, we ensure that an entire community functions.

As a community planner in Mark, you will work in the community development unit with the municipality's strategic assignments in community planning. This gives you a comprehensive view of the various steps in the community building process, making the job inspiring and very developmental. Our job is to ensure that Mark is planned optimally with consideration for current and future values and challenges.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for an experienced community planner who wants to contribute to sustainable development in Mark. With us, you will work strategically with mobility, public transport, infrastructure, and comprehensive planning in a municipality with strong change capacity and a good culture of collaboration.

You will be part of the Comprehensive Planning group, where we work with infrastructure, mobility, statistics, broadband, GIS, and long-term planning issues. In this role, you will have both a holistic perspective and the opportunity to influence the details that make a community function.

We are looking for someone who has:

• documented experience in community planning, preferably in mobility, infrastructure, or public transport
• an academic degree in community planning, urban development, geography, or equivalent
• experience in strategic, data-driven work and in producing decision-making materials
• experience in complex collaboration and good communication skills

You will have close contacts with developers, landowners, businesses, politicians, and authorities. The role therefore requires good service and a confident way of leading dialogue and collaboration.

QUALIFICATIONS

We see that you have:

• experience in strategic physical planning and can lead the work with comprehensive plans, deepening, and thematic additions
• experience in producing analyses and knowledge bases about buildings, land use, landscape, design, and sustainable development
• the ability to follow trends in the environment and translate them into strategies for the municipality's long-term development
• a good understanding of mobility and public transport, including walking, cycling, and shared mobility
• experience in analyzing travel patterns and monitoring key figures such as the share of sustainable trips, travel time ratios, traffic safety, and reduced CO2 emissions
• confidence and experience in planning processes where you contribute as strategic support to ensure that building and traffic planning are interconnected
• the ability to produce decision-making materials in mobility, sustainability, and land use, and to propose measures based on social, environmental, and economic perspectives
• the opportunity to contribute to design programs, structure plans, and development plans
• good communication and collaboration skills, both internally and externally, and confidence in producing and presenting political decision-making materials
• ease in coordinating issues between planning, traffic, environment, business, and development functions
• an interest in participating in citizen dialogues and communication about community development issues

It is meritorious if you have:

• experience working in a politically governed organization
• previous experience in physical planning, sustainable travel, and/or statistics
• worked with GIS, particularly ArcGIS

We value a professional approach where collaboration, respect, and good communication are central. In our team, we work closely together and take joint responsibility for our deliveries. It is important to us that each employee contributes to a positive and solution-oriented work environment. Therefore, we place great emphasis on personal suitability and the ability to strengthen the team's work as a whole.

We offer you:

• a meaningful role where you make a difference every day - you contribute directly to the municipality's development and the everyday lives of community members, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders
• a workplace with care, development, and engagement as values that shape both work methods and decisions
• great opportunities to influence both your own assignment and the municipality's long-term development
• flexible working methods that make it easier to combine responsibility, collaboration, and balance in work life

OTHER

We who work within Marks municipality collectively develop our culture of togetherness by being engaged, caring, and developmental, for the long-term benefit of individuals and society.

Marks municipality is a place close to both people, nature, and ideas. We believe in the strength of working together, and we work closely, family-oriented, down-to-earth, and visionary. We do not only plan for next year but for the next generation.

In our services, we place great importance on your personal suitability.

As an employer, we promote equal rights, obligations, and opportunities for all employees and value the qualities that diversity and a balanced gender distribution can bring to the organization.

Marks municipality offers various employee benefits such as attractive wellness grants, discounted annual passes for Västtrafik, rental bikes, pension and vacation exchange, as well as the possibility of remote work and flexible working hours based on the needs and design of the organization. It is also easy to commute here from, for example, Gothenburg, Borås, and Varberg.

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