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By Umeå residents, for Umeå residents.

We are an energy and communications company owned by Umeå Municipality and all its residents. With secure and accessible solutions, we ensure that a growing Umeå is always heated, lit, and connected. By spreading knowledge, driving community projects, and supporting a vibrant association life, we help shape the future.

Your role

As a Communications Strategist, you work closely with leadership, managers, and operations to create clarity, direction, and impact in our communications.

You are responsible for ensuring that our internal and external communications are cohesive and contribute to understanding and trust in Umeå Energi's mission, direction, and priorities. By translating strategic goals and operationally relevant issues into relevant and understandable communication, you contribute to engagement, participation, and progress within the organization.

As a Communications Strategist with us, you have an advisory and coordinating role where you support the organization in complex matters, particularly related to change, development, and our societal mission. An important part of the assignment is also to develop our sponsorship work as part of strengthening Umeå Energi's brand and societal role, as well as contributing to a sustainable and vibrant Umeå. You help operations create a shared vision and ensure that communication is clear, cohesive, and relevant – both internally and externally.

You become a key partner in larger initiatives and change journeys where you guide, challenge, and support leadership and operations. Through your strategic perspective and communicative competence, you contribute to creating conditions for well-founded decisions, common direction, and desired effects.

The role operates within the framework of the company's overarching brand strategy, positioning, and communication priorities. The overall direction and prioritization between areas are held together within the Marketing & Communication department.

This will be a major part of your daily work

• Provide strategic support to managers, projects, and operations in communication matters
• Contribute with structure, analysis, and communication advice in change work
• Lead and coordinate communication in larger projects and initiatives
• Ensure progress in communicative activities and initiatives within the area of responsibility that support the operation's goals and priorities
• Follow up and develop communication efforts based on effect and operational benefit
• Contribute with communication advice and implementation capability in the work with Umeå Energi's communication and position
• Coordinate and develop the company's sponsorship work so that it strengthens Umeå Energi's brand, societal role, and overall communication priorities

You become an important part of the Marketing & Communication department and work closely with operations on issues that are important both for the company and for Umeå.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for you who are an experienced Communications Strategist and a confident advisor with a strong understanding of how things fit together and a good ability to create structure, direction, and progress in complex contexts.

You easily grasp the operation's challenges and translate strategic and operationally relevant issues into clear, relevant, and target-group-adapted communication. You are accustomed to working closely with leadership, managers, and operations, and have integrity, judgment, and the ability to both support and challenge when needed.

You thrive in a role where you get to coordinate, prioritize, and create clarity, while helping others succeed in their communication. You navigate confidently in complex organizations and have the ability to create structure and direction even when conditions change.

As a person, you are strategic and driven, but also pragmatic and solution-oriented. You have a strong holistic perspective and the ability to translate plans and decisions into concrete action that yields the desired communicative effect.

To succeed in the role, you need to have

• An academic education in communication, marketing, or equivalent experience
• Several years of experience in strategic communication work
• Experience leading, coordinating, and driving work in complex organizations
• Experience leading change communication in larger organizations
• Experience working in an advisory capacity towards managers or leadership
• Good understanding of how communication drives change and business
• Very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing

It is a plus if you also have

• Experience in leadership
• Experience in sponsorship and brand-building work at a strategic level
• Experience from the energy, urban planning, or infrastructure sectors

Apply by June 21

Do you have questions? Contact the recruiting manager Danny Persson, 073 - 394 61 27 or Johan Westermark, 076 - 135 19 43.

We look forward to hearing from you - welcome to us!

With us, you get more than a job

At Umeå Energi, you become part of a workplace where we care about each other and about the people of Umeå. Here you get the opportunity to develop, take responsibility, and make a real difference – in everyday life and for society. Of course, we also offer benefits that make working life a little easier.

Read more about what it is like to work with us at jobb.umeaenergi.se

As a socially important activity, it is important for us to have a secure working environment for our employees and that our assets and information are protected. As part of our systematic security work, we therefore conduct a background check on the final candidate for this position. Some of our roles require security clearance; if this is relevant to the position you have applied for, you will receive more information about it at a later stage.

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