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Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) is a distinctive and international university where academic quality and societal benefit are combined. Here, education and research make a concrete difference in close collaboration with business, the public sector, and international partners.

At BTH, people, technology, and innovation meet in environments characterized by curiosity, collaboration, and responsibility. BTH focuses particularly on data- and technology-driven development, resilient and sustainable societies, as well as marine applications.

As an employee at BTH, you will have the opportunity to contribute and develop in an organization with close contact between students, colleagues, management, and external partners. Short distances contribute to an open and engaged working approach.

Work environment, equal treatment, and sustainability are natural parts of our operations. Our campus is a vibrant meeting place near the sea, the city, and residential areas, with daily life within comfortable cycling distance.

Do you want a key role in leading and developing Blekinge Institute of Technology?

We are looking for a University Director who wants to develop the university's operational support and administrative management, with a focus on creating the best possible conditions for education, research, and collaboration.

As University Director at BTH, you lead, drive, and develop the university's common operational support and serve as a strategic and close support to the Rector and the university's management. In this role, you contribute to creating efficient, legally secure, and purposeful processes that strengthen the conditions for academic excellence and societal benefit in interaction.

Through communicative, strategic, and forward-looking leadership, you play a central role in leading BTH's continued development and change as a government agency towards a globally relevant and recognized technical university.

About the role

The work as University Director involves long-term strategic work combined with an operational daily life in an organization where many stakeholders have different perspectives.

The University Director reports directly to the Rector, is located at the management unit, and is a member of the management council.

As head of the common operational support, you lead, coordinate, and develop the common support and service functions at BTH. The assignment entails overall responsibility for ensuring that the operational support contributes to BTH achieving its strategic goals within education, research, and collaboration.

Are you the person we are looking for?

As University Director, you are responsible for ensuring that BTH fulfills its mission as a government agency through purposeful management, systematic follow-up, and legally secure administrative processes. You drive and implement strategic decisions and measures regarding organization, leadership, and administrative development. You develop, plan, and coordinate university-wide administrative processes and operational management systems.

An important part of the assignment is to strengthen the operational support's role as a professional, trust-based, and value-creating partner to the academy and other parts of the organization. You actively work to build trust in the operational support through clarity, dialogue, quality, and a good understanding of the core activities' needs.

The role includes providing qualified support to the Rector, including in contacts and negotiations within and outside the university, as well as representing BTH in relevant external and internal contexts. You coordinate and lead the work of preparing decision materials for the University Board and other decision-making bodies, and are responsible for ensuring that decisions are implemented and followed up.

In addition, you have overall responsibility for the university's operational support, which comprises seven departments: Finance, HR, IT, Communication, Campus Support, Education Support, and Library and Student Support. The operational support comprises a total of approximately 150 employees.

We are looking for you who have:

• a relevant academic degree, or equivalent
• experience in senior leadership positions with budget and personnel responsibility
• experience in leading through managers
• experience in driving development, change, and management issues from a holistic perspective
• very good knowledge of public administration and its regulations
• very good ability to express yourself well in both Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.

It is meritorious if you have:

• experience in leading complex organizations, preferably from the university sector or government operations
• experience in having implemented efficiency improvements or enhancements of decision processes and operational support.
• legal competence in administrative and contract law

To succeed in the role, you are a secure, clear, and non-hierarchical leader with high integrity. You have the ability to create engagement, participation, and good collaborations across organizational boundaries. You are decisive, communicative, and development-oriented, while also having a good understanding of the operational daily life. With a coaching and trust-based leadership style, you build responsibility, delegate clearly, and follow up on operations in a structured and trust-building manner.

Place of work: Karlskrona

Full-time equivalent: 100%

Start date: By agreement

Duration: Permanent, probationary period may apply

Application deadline: August 15, 2026

You apply via our recruitment system by clicking the "Apply" button below. If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application in our recruitment system. Instead, contact the HR partner listed as the contact person in the advertisement for more information.

Instructions for applicants can be found at https://www.bth.se/om-bth/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb (https://www.bth.se/om-bth/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb). As an applicant, you are responsible for ensuring that your application is complete in accordance with the advertisement and instructions.

BTH welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. We actively work to capitalize on the qualities that diversity and gender balance bring to the organization.

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