Kustbevakningen is looking for a Unit Manager for the Project Office

Kustbevakningen is a civil government preparedness authority responsible for maritime surveillance and rescue services at sea on behalf of the government and parliament. With our maritime capability, Kustbevakningen is also an important authority in Sweden's total defense. A key part of the maritime surveillance mission is to ensure safety in Sweden's maritime zones. This is done, among other things, through crime prevention, monitoring, and maintaining order. Kustbevakningen's rescue service mission includes a wide range of different rescue operations, including environmental rescue operations in the event of accidents or spills and rescue operations in the event of accidents or emergencies.

Kustbevakningen is a maritime hub that ensures a civil maritime situation picture for Sweden and that other authorities have access to the maritime capabilities they need for their missions. An important part of Kustbevakningen's mission is to support other parts of society based on the expertise that the authority possesses.

Kustbevakningen is a workplace characterized by collaboration and engagement across boundaries. Here, there are dedicated employees with varying competencies, creating a dynamic workplace with constant opportunities to learn new things. Kustbevakningen works with and has a strong focus on employee participation and leadership, which is why it is important that your values align with Kustbevakningen's – holistic view, goodwill, and commitment. Kustbevakningen offers an attractive workplace characterized by striving to be free from discrimination and providing equal opportunities and rights for all.

Description

Do you want to take a key role in building and leading a strategically crucial function in a community-supporting authority? We are now looking for a Unit Manager for our newly established Project Office, a role for you who want to combine leadership, strategy, and development power in an operation with a clear and important mission.

You will step into a phase of establishment where you will have the opportunity to set structure, culture, and direction for Kustbevakningen's overall project activities. By establishing strong project portfolio management and a modern, purpose-built project management model, you will create conditions for effective implementation power, high quality, and clear benefit realization.

The Project Office is part of the Development and Innovation department and will play a central role in the authority's digitalization journey, research and innovation work, and long-term capability development. You will initially lead three main project managers and gradually build a growing and strategically important unit.

The position is located either in Karlskrona or Gothenburg.

Responsibilities

As a Unit Manager, you have overall responsibility for the Project Office's mission, operations, personnel, and budget. You lead the unit in line with Kustbevakningen's strategies, goals, and values, ensuring that the project activities create clear benefits.

In the role, you will:

• Lead, plan, and follow up the unit's operations with clear direction and structure
• Be responsible for personnel, budget, work environment, and competence development
• Develop and manage project models, methods, and tools
• Manage and further develop the authority's project management model
• Ensure robust project and portfolio management and effective resource allocation
• Support management, managers, and project owners in prioritization, governance, and follow-up
• Follow up on project results, risks, and benefit realization
• Actively contribute to the authority's strategic development work
• Be an engaged member of the department's management team and drive collaboration both internally and externally

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• A university degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Several years of current experience in qualified work with project management and project governance.
• Several years of current experience in management or another leadership role.
• Solid and current knowledge of portfolio management and establishment of project offices (PMO).
• The ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish and English.

It is an advantage if you also have:

• Experience working within a government preparedness authority.
• Knowledge of change management and business development.
• Good knowledge of governance, follow-up, and processes within public operations.

You are a confident and clear leader with the ability to combine a strategic holistic perspective with operational implementation power. You are unpretentious, development-oriented, and create structure in complex contexts.

Through your leadership, you build trusting collaborations and help others grow. You work purposefully, think long-term, and act in accordance with the public value base.

To succeed in the role, you are both a strategist and a tactician; you translate analysis and experience into concrete actions that strengthen the organization and create sustainable results.

This is a role for you who want to build something that lasts and who is motivated by creating long-term effects in an operation with significant social responsibility.

When hiring, we place great emphasis on your personal qualities and abilities.

Conditions

The employment is permanent with a 6-month initial probationary period. Start date is as soon as possible by agreement. The place of employment is Karlskrona or Gothenburg.

For employment, Swedish citizenship, a drug test, and security clearance according to the Security Protection Act are required.

Kustbevakningen participates in foreign missions and international operations. Therefore, the employment includes an obligation to serve abroad when required for the operation.

In the case of permanent employment, there is also an obligation to be placed in wartime.

Other

To ensure quality and streamline the recruitment process, we use an electronic application form in collaboration with Varbi for all job openings. Please fill out your application as carefully as possible to provide an accurate representation of yourself.

Kustbevakningen is a government authority, which means that the information you provide to us may be disclosed under the principle of public access. Normally, there is no confidentiality for the information processed in the database. If you have protected personal information, please contact the contact person specified in the advertisement.

In preparation for the recruitment process, Kustbevakningen has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.