Join Us at Gävle Municipality – Change Manager for Secure Employment Positions

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work engagedly together to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trust-based workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome to apply!

Gävle Municipality invests in secure employment positions to increase inclusion in the labor market, where approximately 130 people are employed through state support. These positions cover various activities and should constitute 2% of the municipality's workforce. The goal is to offer meaningful jobs.

Within Welfare Gävle, our workplace is located at Jägargatan 2. Here, approximately 80 employees and five unit managers work. We work in teams, sit in an open-plan office, and have access to several meeting and conference rooms. The building includes a café and a reception. All work takes place on-site, and our customers also visit here. There are good bus connections and many nice bicycle paths to the location.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want to work with a coaching approach and are passionate about seeing people grow? Do you want to contribute to individuals achieving development, stability, independence, and self-sufficiency? Perfect, then it might be you we are looking for!

We look forward to your application!

Your Role

In the role of Change Manager for Secure Employment Positions, your mission is to support individuals who, for various reasons, cannot work in the regular labor market and hold a secure employment position within the municipality.

You work to give people with disabilities the opportunity for participation, independence, and meaningful employment.

Some of Your Tasks

• Through active measures and adaptations, you create conditions for the individual to take the next step in their development journey.
• The work consists of motivational and guiding measures both individually and in groups.
• Collaboration with colleagues and other relevant actors is of great importance to succeed with the assignment.
• You have an employer responsibility for a number of customers, and your task is to drive the process together with the individual to maintain employment.

You will work closely with your colleagues in a high-performing and tight team within your unit. Your mission is to drive an individually adapted and goal-oriented process together with the customer. With coaching and dialogue, you provide the tools and insights the customer needs to gain control over their future and achieve their goals.

You will support the customer in developing and strengthening their skills and knowledge, and in collaboration with other operations in the municipality, region, and state, ensure the customer receives support regarding their health and social needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

Formal Requirements

We are looking for someone with an academic degree oriented towards the profession, such as behavioral science, social work, personnel and working life, pedagogy, or another academic degree that the employer deems relevant for the position. We consider it meritorious if you have one year of experience in similar work and hold a B driving license with driving experience.

To Succeed in the Role

• As a Change Manager for Secure Employment Positions, you have a coaching approach.
• You have the ability to lead, motivate, and inspire others, helping them to develop and feel well.
• Your ability to create an open dialogue and adapt your behavior based on different situations comes naturally to you, and you build trust-based relationships where others feel safe.
• You see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient, and use resources to achieve results in the best possible way.
• You have a high ability to deliver results, both in terms of quality and productivity.
• Working in a systematic, methodical, and reliable way is a given for you, and as a person, you easily focus on the customer's needs and achieve good customer satisfaction.

You are accustomed to holding presentations, lectures, and training sessions, adapting them to the target group's needs and feedback.

Employment Type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent.

We Offer You

You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have:

• generous vacation conditions, and as a new employee, you also have the right to paid vacation during your first year of employment
• compensation for wellness and exercise when employed for more than three months
• various insurance policies through our collective agreements, for example, including sick pay insurance and work injury insurance.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our Values

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for fulfilling our mission in the best possible way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be a merit.