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Are you passionate about international cooperation, voluntary engagement, and creating opportunities for young people to meet across borders? Scouterna is now looking for a dedicated International Secretary who wants to contribute to our international work and strengthen our relationships globally.

As International Secretary, you hold a key position where you coordinate and develop both the strategic and operational international work. You work closely with both volunteers and employees, creating conditions for scouts to participate in international contexts, while contributing to the development of long-term structures and collaborations with our international partners and organizations.

In your daily work, you lead and support the voluntary International Group together with a voluntary chairperson, plan and conduct meetings and working weekends, and coordinate projects and activities within areas such as Erasmus+. You are responsible for administration, budgeting, and follow-up, ensuring that Scouterna is represented in international forums and conferences. You serve as the contact person for international matters, handling everything from reporting to communication and relationship building. The role involves close collaboration with voluntary forces at the national level and includes some evening and weekend work as well as travel within Sweden and internationally. Here you have the opportunity to contribute to development, create engagement, and help make Scouterna's international work even stronger.

To thrive in this role, you are structured and take responsibility for planning and driving your work forward efficiently. You have strong communication skills and are confident in creating and developing relationships, both within the organization and with external partners. You are proactive, get things done, and can adapt your communication to the target audience and context.

You enjoy working independently while also collaborating with others and building engagement together with colleagues and voluntary forces. We also see that you have a genuine commitment to young people and share Scouterna's values – something that permeates your way of working and contributing to the organization.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Education relevant to the position at least at the upper secondary level or equivalent.

• Experience in coordinating and/or project management.

• Experience with budgeting and financial follow-up.

• Experience from scouting activities; voluntary engagement at national and international levels is an advantage.

• Good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

• Experience in collaboration and/or event planning in international contexts is an advantage.

Scouterna is a membership organization with a long history of offering children and young people a meaningful leisure time in Sweden. Those who work at Scouterna are located in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, and Västerås, totaling 70 employees. As a workplace, we are driven by a desire to make decisions as close to the operations as possible, which contributes to a strong sense of ownership for what we do. Scouterna offers its employees nice facilities, a warm and welcoming atmosphere, and good working conditions.

The position is a permanent full-time employment with a desired start date of August 17, 2026. We have a six-month probation period and work with goal-oriented working hours. The position is located in Stockholm at our office in Örnsberg, where we expect you to be on-site approximately three days a week.

The role involves close collaboration with volunteers at the national level, which entails work on evenings and weekends as well as some travel both within Sweden and internationally. Approximately, this involves at least one evening per week and 2–3 working weekends per term.

We welcome your application by June 10, 2026. You apply by submitting a CV describing relevant experiences, as well as a cover letter explaining why you are applying for the position and how your competencies match the requirements.

The recruitment will be conducted using a competency-based recruitment method. When you apply, you will be asked to answer selection questions regarding the basic requirements specified above, and you will be asked to state a salary expectation. Those who best match the role will be invited to a Teams interview, after which the next step is a competency-based interview with us. We check references for the final candidate, and before signing the contract, a police record check for work with children in activities other than school and childcare must be submitted without remarks.

For any questions about the position, please contact: - Development Manager Susanne Curman, [email protected] or 08-55506546 - Union Representative Sassa Orebring, [email protected] or 08-568 432 53