Unit Manager for the Legal Department

Do you have qualified legal expertise and extensive leadership experience? We are looking for a unit manager who wants to take on a broad assignment in a modern authority with an important role in society. The role suits you who want to combine the role of a lawyer with leadership, lead experts, and contribute to legal certainty, quality assurance, and appropriate regulations in a changing operation with significant societal impact.

We work with what everyone takes for granted. The ability to communicate. With us, you will ensure that it works now and in the future. For everyone.

The Legal Department plays a key role within PTS and contributes to ensuring that the authority's operations are conducted with high legal quality. The department supports the entire authority in matters concerning legal quality assurance, regulations, data protection, general administrative law, legal processes, and dispute resolution, and acts as a strategic support to both operations and management. The assignment is dynamic, and the unit you will lead has a broad and responsible mission focused on legal governance, quality assurance, and the formulation of regulations in line with the digitalization of society and the needs of total defense.

I, your future manager, am Karolina Asp. For me, it is important that the Legal Department is a reliable and professional support to the organization. We are curious, helpful, take overall responsibility, and find solutions. I want everyone to feel good, have fun, and feel that the work is developing. I value an open and unpretentious climate where we share knowledge, discuss questions, and dare to ask questions – because we get better together.

About the Role

As a unit manager, you will lead, support, and allocate work within the unit and have personnel and work environment responsibility for the employees. You will be responsible for annual planning and follow-up of operations, including budget. The role involves coordinating the Legal Department's work with regulations and leading a professional legal support to other parts of PTS in both operational legal and substantive legal matters. You will be responsible for ensuring that the unit handles referrals, coordinates data protection issues, and develops the authority's work and delegation order. You will also be responsible for PTS's internal whistleblower function and are designated as the authorized person according to applicable legislation.

The role includes participating in board meetings where regulations are decided, representing the department at presentations, and, after a while, being able to act as a deputy for the chief legal officer. The role requires you to independently take overall responsibility, make priorities, and determine which issues need to be anchored at the management level.

PTS is currently preparing for the Authority for Digital Administration to be incorporated into the operations from January 1, 2027. In connection with this, the role and the unit's assignment may change somewhat.

About the Team

The Legal Department consists of two units: the Regulations Unit and the Legal Processes and Dispute Resolution Unit. The unit you will lead currently consists of eight lawyers. Here, you will work as a manager for experts with high competence, in an open and unpretentious climate, with a strong societal focus and a good balance between work and leisure.

About You

To thrive and succeed in the role, you are collaborative and have a clear leadership style. You are experienced and confident in the role of lawyer and manager and can create well-functioning teams through trust, clarity, and engagement. You are stable and can handle a large influx of questions, prioritize, and make well-founded decisions with a focus on legal quality and consistency. You work to build relationships and contribute to good cooperation within the department and the authority. Furthermore, you are solution-oriented and have the ability to lead in an environment where assignments and conditions change over time. You communicate clearly and pedagogically and can act as a senior legal sounding board when needed. Your personal qualities are important, which is why we will place great emphasis on these.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Law degree
• Clerkship or similar experience from a court or legally specialized function
• Several years of current leadership experience with personnel, budget, and work environment responsibility
• Good knowledge of and practical experience in administrative law and authority law
• Experience in regulatory work or other legislative writing
• Very good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish and English

It is also meritorious if you have:

• Experience working as a lawyer in a higher court
• Experience working as a lawyer in the Government Offices
• Experience in legal issues related to the digitalization of authorities, such as IT law, data protection, data sharing, or information management

Our Offer

We take life seriously. With us, you can have a life both at work and outside of it. If you feel good, we feel good. Therefore, we offer competitive salaries, flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote work. We also have generous wellness benefits and two wellness hours every week.

Additionally, you will receive favorable conditions for lunch, vacation, parental leave, pension, and in case of illness. Here, you will work in modern activity-based premises at Hälsingegatan 38. As a government authority, we offer a safe and stable working environment where you can feel secure. We are creating tomorrow's society and must stay at the forefront. With us, you will continuously grow with your tasks.

Good to Know

The position is a permanent employment with an initial probationary period of six months. Placement in Stockholm with start as soon as possible by agreement. Your job title will be Unit Manager.

To ensure a fair and objective assessment of your qualifications, we ask you not to include a photo, personal identification number, or address in your CV. We have chosen not to request a cover letter as we instead use selection questions. This is to focus on your experience and qualifications, which contributes to a more efficient and fair recruitment process. Tests will be included in the process. If you have protected information, please contact our HR specialist.

For further information, contact department head and chief legal officer Karolina Asp at [email protected], or HR specialist Denise Brosché at [email protected]. For questions related to our local trade union organizations, please email [email protected] or [email protected].

Welcome with your application by April 6.

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