Area Manager for Financial Support and Integration

Jönköping Municipality is a major employer with hundreds of different job roles. We are growing in line with the municipality's development with more residents, more housing, and a larger range of services. We are always on the lookout for new competencies - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you want to lead one of the most significant areas of social services together with engaged employees and continue to develop support for the residents of Jönköping? The Individual and Family Care department is now looking for a strategic and experienced area manager for financial support and integration.

Your new job

As an area manager, you report to the functional manager and are part of the management team of Individual and Family Care. You are responsible for strategic planning, governance, and follow-up of the operations and have full budget and personnel responsibility.

The assignment involves ensuring lawful authority exercise, sound economic management, and high quality in operations. You lead through your unit managers and create clarity, structure, and direction in a complex organization. Collaboration with the Labor Market Department (AMA), adult education, and external actors is an important part of the assignment, especially in the work of strengthening the path to self-sufficiency.

A central part of the assignment in the coming years is the implementation of the national activity requirement within financial assistance, which will come into effect on July 1, 2026. The municipality has established a special project for the implementation of the activity requirement, with project leaders and project staff from both financial support and AMA. As an area manager, you lead the overall work, prioritize efforts, and ensure that the change is integrated into regular operations in a sustainable way.

Your qualifications

You have an approved and completed university degree (bachelor's degree) of at least 180 credits, either as a social worker or in behavioral science, community-oriented education, or another approved and completed education with a university degree that the employer assesses as equivalent.

You have documented experience of managerial assignments in politically governed organizations and good knowledge of financial assistance as well as the welfare system's connection to the labor market and integration. Furthermore, you have experience in leading change or implementation work and are accustomed to working with financial management in complex operations. It is advantageous if you have worked within financial support or labor market activities.

You are a secure and clear leader with good analytical skills. You combine a strategic holistic perspective with operational understanding and have the ability to lead in change. You create structure, communicate clearly, and build trusting collaborations both internally and externally.

A driving license (B) is advantageous.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability!

We offer you

A strategic, varied, and meaningful job with engaged colleagues. Together we raise our sights and utilize competence and experience to develop efforts with good quality – that make a real difference for the citizens the operations exist for. We offer you as a manager individual salary setting. Read more about our benefits here (https://www.jonkoping.se/jobba-hos-oss/jonkopings-kommun-som-arbetsgivare-/detta-far-du-nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss).

Welcome to us

The Individual and Family Care department is part of the social administration and is organized into three areas: child and youth care, adult care, and financial support and integration.

The area of financial support and integration includes financial assistance, integration housing, immigrant and refugee activities, budget and debt counseling, and interpreting services. Within the area, about 95 employees are distributed across six units, each with its own unit manager. There are also employees responsible for investigating incorrect payments and operational development.

Good to know

The recruitment concerns a full-time position as area manager with a start date according to agreement. A probationary period may be applied. Testing tools will be applied.

The application must include a personal letter, CV, attached diploma, and service certificates from previous employments. All employment must be verified, and it should be clear to what extent you have worked, what type of employment has been applicable, and what position you have held. Applications that lack this will not be prioritized.

Interviews for the position will take place on the mornings of March 19 and 20, and possibly Thursday, March 26, may also be relevant. If you apply for the position and are called for an interview, you need to be available on these days. Union interviews will also be held in conjunction with the employer's interview.

Before any employment, a background check will be conducted where you must be able to present an extract from the criminal record. In this recruitment, the extract called “Check your own information in the criminal record” applies.

Want to know more?

Recruiting manager, see the information box. Union representatives: here (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligasoc).

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position!

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.