Are you looking for a new challenge?

Now you have the chance to contribute and continue developing a socially important operation.

The Department for Housing and Income Support is one of eight departments at the Swedish Pensions Agency with approximately 230 employees distributed across 8 locations from Luleå in the north to Halmstad in the south.

The department is responsible for the administration and management of housing supplements and elderly support, which includes case handling, decision-making, and contacts with individuals. The assignment also includes ensuring that incorrect payments are not made and combating benefit fraud.

The Swedish Pensions Agency is undergoing a major transformation journey where we want to strengthen our employees and our organization to better meet our customers where they are.

We are now looking for a group manager for Halmstad.

Job Description

Together with other group managers, you have overall responsibility for the operations within the unit and are part of a management team where you contribute to the operational and tactical work. Based on a clear employer role, you have personnel, results, and follow-up responsibility for approximately 20 employees in Halmstad and lead the operational work. Furthermore, you are responsible for ensuring that the operations are conducted with high quality, service, efficiency, and cost awareness. Most of our meetings are held digitally, but physical meetings also take place, which means that travel is required in the position. You will lead change and clearly communicate the vision, goals, and values to your employees.

As a manager at the Swedish Pensions Agency, you are also responsible for driving an active work environment and health effort and contributing to creating a developing workplace. Furthermore, you are responsible for creating conditions through dialogue for employees to be able and willing to take responsibility for their assignments, their goals, and their professional development. We offer you a workplace with socially important and interesting tasks that benefit citizens – our work affects everyone!

The leadership at the Swedish Pensions Agency is based on three important areas: motivating, creating conditions, and building trust.

Your Profile

Your leadership is characterized by a trust-based approach. You have the ability to lead change and thrive in an operation with a strong customer focus and high goals. You actively work to create good employee engagement and develop effective working methods that create value for our customers. Your leadership style contributes to a good and sustainable work environment.

To succeed and thrive in the role of group manager, you are customer-oriented and structured with a focus on the best interests of the entire agency. You are goal- and result-oriented and motivated by developing both employees and processes. As a person, you are attentive, engaging, and self-driven, while also being proactive and seeing what needs to be done. You have high integrity, a good overall perspective, and a notably good communication ability. You are pedagogical in your communication, adapting your message to the recipient and creating understanding and participation.

Since the position involves working in a management team and collaborating with other departments within the agency, it is important that you have very good collaboration skills.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A relevant academic degree as assessed by the employer
• Documented several years of managerial experience from the public sector
• Experience in leading a process-driven operation with large case flows
• Very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing

Meritorious:

Current experience and knowledge of the housing supplement benefit

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities and leadership ability in the selection process.

We offer

A government assignment that is truly important! A workplace where we care about our employees having a good balance between work and leisure. We offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work partially from home. As a state employee, you also have good employment conditions and a benefits package that includes wellness, additional days off, and good vacation and pension conditions.

You can read more about our benefits and what it is like to work with us here (https://www.pensionsmyndigheten.se/om-pensionsmyndigheten/jobba-hos-oss/jobba-pa-pensionsmyndigheten).

Good to know

The employment is permanent full-time with start date according to agreement. The place of employment is Halmstad. We apply a six-month probationary period.

The employment may be placed in a security class.

Your application

We work competency-based throughout the process and are committed to an inclusive, fair, objective, and candidate-friendly process. Therefore, we ask you to answer a number of selection questions instead of requesting a personal letter.

Psychological testing may be relevant in the recruitment process.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore we welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the recruiting manager who will assist you with your application.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding advertising channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no further contact with media/advertising sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

The Swedish Pensions Agency is responsible for public pensions and provides information about the entire pension system. Each year, we pay out approximately 380 billion kronor to 2.3 million pensioners, conduct approximately 900,000 fund switches, and send out 7.8 million orange envelopes. We are about 1600 employees at eight locations, from Luleå in the north to Halmstad in the south.