Do you want to shape the future of Gislaved?

The Municipality of Gislaved is looking for a city architect who wants to help create sustainable, attractive, and well-designed living environments for the future.

With a strong focus on quality, dialogue, and strategic development, you will play a key role in the municipality's urban planning work, from vision to reality. Here, you will have the opportunity to make clear architectural marks in a municipality that highly values quality, wholeness, and long-term sustainability.

Your mission

As a city architect, you are a strategic key player responsible for elevating design issues, architectural quality, and long-term sustainability in the municipality's physical planning. You will work in an advisory capacity and drive issues related to comprehensive planning, detailed planning, building permits, and urban development, with a clear holistic perspective. Your position is located within the strategic unit of the planning department.

You will contribute architectural expertise in both individual cases and the municipality's overall strategies. The role involves close collaboration with officials, residents, elected representatives, businesses, community organizations, and other societal actors.

You will create engagement for good design and drive the development of guidelines, programs, and directives for the future of Gislaved.

The municipalities of Gislaved and Tranemo have a joint building and environmental committee where you are expected to actively contribute to the committee's work and support decision-making. Collaboration with other departments, municipalities, and companies is a natural part of your daily work, as is weighing different perspectives, from cultural heritage to growth and social sustainability.

Qualifications

• Degree in architecture or other education deemed equivalent by the employer
• At least five years of experience working with urban planning issues, building permit processes, and physical planning or what the employer deems equivalent.
• Experience from municipal or other public operations
• Experience working with strategic documents such as guidelines, programs, and directives within urban development
• Ability to professionally and assertively drive and represent architectural and design issues even in contexts with conflicting interests
• Good knowledge of cultural heritage issues and the ability to weigh cultural historical values against development and growth interests in physical planning

Personal conditions

As a person, you have a strategic mindset, are confident in your professional role, and possess good communication skills in both speech and writing. You have a clear understanding of the importance of architecture and cultural heritage in societal development and can integrate these perspectives into planning and decision-making. You can assert architectural quality, design, and long-term values with objectivity and clarity, even when these meet conflicting interests, and you want to contribute to creating living environments where people want to live, work, and thrive both today and in the future. We place great importance on personal qualities and are looking for someone who combines professional integrity with collaboration skills, responsiveness, and a solution-oriented approach.

Why Gislaved?

The Municipality of Gislaved is in an exciting phase of development where urban planning plays a central role. There is a strong belief in the future, a rich community and cultural life, and a business sector characterized by innovation and entrepreneurship.

The municipality offers a high quality of life with proximity to nature, outdoor activities, and culture. Here, you can enjoy everything from skiing at Isaberg and fishing in our many lakes to motorsport at Anderstorp Raceway and concerts with a symphony orchestra.

Our mission is to build the society of the future, and we welcome you to do it together with us.

We invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than March 20, 2026. Selection will take place on an ongoing basis.

In the Municipality of Gislaved, full-time is a right, and therefore, vacant positions* are advertised as full-time. When the organization can accommodate part-time, it is of course an option. *Positions shorter than 3 months and certain positions may be exempt. In preparation for the recruitment process, the Municipality of Gislaved has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.