We are looking for a resource for the Swedish Food Agency's work with public meals

We are looking for someone who, until January 2027, wants to be a resource in the Swedish Food Agency's work with public meals, preparedness, and food consumption. If you want to lead our development work and communicate with our target groups, this could be interesting for you.

Your Role

In this role, you will drive assignments and handle cases in our national competence center for public meals. The national competence center includes support to municipalities and regions in the development of meals and robust and resilient meal organizations for healthcare, schools, and social services. Developing preparedness work within meal organizations will be an important task. You will participate in government assignments, develop guidelines and knowledge support, and collaborate with industry representatives on various issues. In your work, you will represent the authority in different contexts, such as media, plan and conduct webinars, and collaborate with various stakeholders in both digital and physical meetings. You will also be a resource in general tasks within the unit and collaborate with your colleagues.

Unit for Sustainable Food Consumption

The Unit for Sustainable Food Consumption (HLK) works for more sustainable food consumption among the population. The unit provides support in the form of advice, guidelines, and policies to professionals, companies, regulatory authorities, and other organizations whose work concerns food, meals, and ultimately consumers. We drive many government assignments, both within the food strategy and in collaboration with other authorities.

Your Competence

We are looking for someone with an academic degree where food science, nutrition, or related fields constitute a significant part. You have current and relevant work experience in nutrition, eating habits, food consumption, and from the food industry. Additionally, you have relevant and current experience working on projects and assignments related to public meals and sustainable food consumption. You are accustomed to handling tasks in a context that places high demands on communication skills, and you are comfortable in an outward-facing role. It is required that you have experience working with public meal operations in a municipality or region, including preparedness issues for meal operations. If you have experience working in a government authority role, it is an advantage. Experience working with target groups such as children, youth, and the elderly is also advantageous. It is beneficial if you are used to handling large amounts of data and analyzing, summarizing, and communicating information in a target group-adapted manner. You must have good knowledge of both Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

Your Personal Qualities

To succeed in this assignment, you act responsibly, collaboratively, and developmentally in your work. You take responsibility for the organization's common assignments and resources as well as our target groups' needs. You make thoughtful priorities in your work and deliver according to set goals and timelines. You invite and are open to collaborations, ideas, and new perspectives that improve our deliveries. You enjoy working in a team and share your expertise to strengthen our collective ability. You are capable of navigating a large flow of tasks as you have the ability to see both the big picture and pay attention to details. You are used to collaborating with others both internally and externally, utilizing your ability to communicate our mission and efforts simply and straightforwardly. You monitor the external environment to gain new perspectives, maintain relevant competence, and adapt your work to the organization's requirements and conditions. We place great importance on your personal qualities.

Welcome to Contact Us

You are welcome to contact the recruiting manager Britta Ekman. The representative for Saco-S is Mahnoush Etminan and for ST Anders Staffas. All can be reached via our switchboard, tel. 018-17 55 00.

The application deadline is 2026-03-15. Apply via the job advertisement on Lediga jobb (livsmedelsverket.se), marking your application with diary number 2026/01165. The application must be written in Swedish.

More Information About the Position

Employment form: Temporary position from April 1, 2026, to January 31, 2027, Full-time.

Start date: April 1 or by agreement

Organizational affiliation: Unit for Sustainable Food Consumption

Location: Uppsala or other agreement

Before the Interview

Grades, certificates, and ID documents that support your application should be brought to a possible interview.

Welcome with your application!

This recruitment is conducted entirely by the Swedish Food Agency. Therefore, we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers not to call.

We make our assessment based on the information available in the application documents, so please be clear in describing how you meet the qualifications.

Why the Swedish Food Agency

Food and drinking water affect everyone in one way or another, and interest in both food itself and the work of the Swedish Food Agency is very high.

At the Swedish Food Agency, we contribute to ensuring that food and drinking water are safe for Sweden's consumers, that no one is deceived about what food contains, and to sustainable food consumption. The Swedish Food Agency is involved in building Sweden's civil defense and has a key role in a robust food and drinking water supply.

At the Swedish Food Agency, we work efficiently and with quality assurance, and all employees, leaders, and managers take joint responsibility for the organization's mission and development from a holistic perspective. Through our shared leadership, we promote engagement and learning.