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Do you want to lead an operation with significant impact on both individuals and society? As Unit Manager for Eastern Skåne, you will have a strategic and developmental leadership role with responsibility for approximately 200 employees, nine section managers, and several important regional assignments. We are looking for you who are an experienced leader with a good ability to create results through others, build strong collaborations, and drive development in a complex organization. Together, we get Sweden to work. Do you want to become one of us?

The Unit's Mission

The Swedish Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), Business Area Coordinated Support, is seeking a Unit Manager for the Eastern Skåne unit. As Unit Manager for Eastern Skåne, you will lead a unit with approximately 200 employees. The unit consists of 9 sections. As Unit Manager, you will lead 9 section managers as well as a management support team of 5 people. The Eastern Skåne unit operates in 5 municipalities and has two regional assignments: the strengthened cooperation with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and one of the Swedish Public Employment Service's special sections with specialist competence in the field of vision, deafness, and hearing. You will be responsible for the unit's physical office located in Kristianstad, where other employees from the agency are also based. Our national mission is to provide job seekers and employers with uniform, efficient, and qualified employment services.

Job Description

Your assignment as Unit Manager includes overall responsibility for operations, budget, work environment, and personnel. You are responsible for ensuring that the unit's results meet established goals.

As Unit Manager, you are part of the Division Manager's leadership group and, together with them and the other unit managers, will be responsible for the entire region's results and development. You have an important task in creating a well-functioning leadership group and, together with the section managers, drive and develop the unit. You enable good performance, high satisfaction, and a good work environment by working in accordance with the Swedish Public Employment Service's leadership criteria. You promote a culture characterized by trust, openness, and security. Your work takes place in strong partnership within and outside your own region and in good collaboration with trade union partners. As Unit Manager, you are a role model in living up to the Swedish Public Employment Service's vision and the public sector values.

What We Offer

The position is a permanent full-time employment that may start with a six-month probationary period. The location is Kristianstad.

We offer you the opportunity to work at a workplace where we value the balance between work and private life. You will have access to a generous holiday agreement with flexible working hours. Our benefits also include health and wellness activities during working hours and a favorable wellness allowance.

As an employee of the Swedish Public Employment Service, you also have access to competence development and career opportunities within the agency. Through our work, we contribute to an inclusive and sustainable society, where you have the opportunity to make a real difference for individuals and for society as a whole.

Basic Requirements for the Position

At least one year of current experience in:

• Management with operational and personnel responsibility within the Swedish Public Employment Service

Or

• Management at a corresponding level with operational and personnel responsibility from another organization

Other Merits for the Position

• Good knowledge of labor market issues and the labor market policy mission
• Current experience of working in the public sector and good experience of exercising official authority
• Current experience of cooperation and collaboration with suppliers
• At least one year of current experience leading other managers
• Experience of being a manager within state operations
• Well-versed in the work with both job seekers and employers within the Swedish Public Employment Service

The public sector values guide us in our daily work. As an employee, you are expected to work fairly, impartially, and with high integrity, and to contribute to maintaining and strengthening trust in our agency.

In addition, you must have the personal ability and aptitude to work in accordance with the Swedish Public Employment Service's leadership criteria. Read more about the public sector values and our leadership criteria on our website.

As a leader at the Swedish Public Employment Service, you are expected to be:

Responsible – take responsibility for the whole, create clear direction and good conditions.

Decisive – turn decisions into action, be a clear and courageous role model.

Result-oriented – follow up, develop, and drive the operations towards common goals.

Application

Does this sound like a job for you? Please submit your application no later than June 18.

Interviews are planned to be held on July 13–14.

Attach your CV where you specify the year, month, and duties for each employment, as well as certificates confirming the requirements regarding education and/or work experience in your application.

It is important that you answer the selection questions in detail and truthfully, so that we get a clear picture of your experience. If the requested information is not provided, you risk being excluded from the selection. You do not need to send a cover letter.

Selection tests may occur during the recruitment process. We will keep you informed throughout the entire recruitment process. More about our recruitment process.

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