Process Leader for Honour-Based Violence and Oppression

The County Administrative Board is a crucial coordinating link at the interface between the state, regions, municipalities, business sector, and individuals. The County Administrative Board works to ensure that national goals are implemented in the county, while taking regional conditions and prerequisites into account. This involves balancing important public interests and resolving goal conflicts. The Board has a broad and multifaceted mandate regarding both tasks and subject areas. The agency's main tasks include permit assessment, supervision, knowledge dissemination, and coordination within many societal sectors. Approximately 230 people work here, and our head is the County Governor.

If you are interested in societal issues and want to contribute to the development of Värmland County, you may be the right person for us.

Description

At the Social Sustainability unit, we work with issues such as integration, human rights, gender equality, crime prevention, and violence against men. We are 15 employees working together to contribute to long-term and strategic development through collaboration and coordination. Here, you will meet engaged and experienced colleagues who help and support each other in daily life while also having fun together. You will also be assigned a mentor for an introduction that will gradually help you settle into the work. We offer one hour of wellness activities per week during working hours, as well as a wellness allowance.

Job Responsibilities

We are now looking for a Process Leader to work on our mandate to develop a regional resource centre against honour-based violence and oppression.

The County Administrative Boards are to coordinate the development of regional resource centres against honour-based violence and oppression. This means, among other things, that the County Administrative Boards should work for effective collaboration between social services, healthcare, and the police in their respective counties to facilitate support and protection for children and adults who are or risk becoming victims of honour-based violence and oppression. As a Process Leader, you will lead the work of planning, developing, and establishing a regional resource centre against honour-based violence and oppression. The assignment includes, among other things:

• Conduct needs analyses and mapping of the county's support structure and development needs, as well as gather knowledge to ensure that the development of the regional resource centre is based on national mandates, knowledge support, and research in the field of honour-based violence and oppression.
• Lead the development of sustainable forms of collaboration and governance, and propose operational structures, economic and operational division of responsibilities, working methods, and effect monitoring for the regional resource centre.
• Contribute to integrating the work into the County Administrative Board's and collaborating actors' regular structures and long-term work.
• Participate in the County Administrative Board's joint collaboration structure for work with the resource centre against honour-based violence and oppression.

You will work closely with colleagues working on our mandates regarding violence against men and will have the opportunity to combine knowledge and commitment to create real change. If this sounds like an exciting and rewarding assignment, you are warmly welcome to apply!

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• An academic degree in, for example, social sciences, social work, law, political science, public health science, or other education that the employer deems relevant.
• Experience with complex development or collaboration processes within the public sector.
• Experience working in areas such as violence against men, social sustainability, or crime prevention.
• Good knowledge of honour-based violence and oppression.
• Understanding of the work of social services, the police, and healthcare with victims of violence.
• Good ability to express yourself orally and in writing in Swedish.
• Category B driver's license

Meritorious if you have:

• Experience from a County Administrative Board or another government agency.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability and are looking for a person who has:

• Very good collaboration and relationship-building skills.
• Strategic and analytical skills with a good holistic view.
• Ability to independently drive processes forward and create structure in complex assignments.
• Ability to create trust and engagement among different actors and professions.

Conditions

Fixed-term employment, 12 months

To work with us, you must share the state's common value base. Its six principles define the direction for how agencies and state employees should approach their assignments.

• Democracy
• Legality
• Objectivity, impartiality, and equal treatment
• Freedom of opinion formation
• Respect for the equal value of all people
• Efficiency and service

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