Do you want to make Gävle even better with us?

In Gävle Municipality, we work dedicatedly together to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trust-based workplace where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

The employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, young people, and the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future-oriented professions that both challenge and develop you, and you will work on things that truly matter.

Together we make Gävle safer!

1 position(s).

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your role

As a Volunteer Coordinator, you are responsible for the "Volunteer in Gävle" operation, which recruits, matches, and places volunteers in welfare activities for seniors as well as with private individuals aged 65 or older.

Your duties in this role include, but are not limited to:

• Inventorize and develop volunteer assignments.
• Recruit, inspire, and support volunteers.
• Match volunteers with activities and seniors.
• Market the operation and monitor relevant external areas.
• Build and develop collaborations with associations, organizations, and municipal operations.
• Coordinate volunteers who run area-specific meeting points in the municipality.
• Administer the volunteer register and expressions of interest via the municipality's e-services.

You are also responsible for the planning, preparation, and execution of the annual volunteer festival on International Volunteer Day together with the current steering group. The assignment also includes arranging term meetings, inspiration meetings, and other activities for our volunteers.

The position belongs to the preventive operations within Welfare Gävle.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have a relevant university education with a social or pedagogical focus, or other education that the employer deems equivalent.

You have the ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing, and have experience in coordination and/or development work as well as social media administration. A B driving license is required for the position.

Merits:

Gävle Municipality is part of a Finnish-speaking administrative area. If you speak Finnish in addition to our formal requirements, it can be a merit.

As a person:

• You have the ability to create and maintain good relationships, both internally and externally. You collaborate well with people in different contexts and functions.
• You have the ability to plan and organize your work. You easily set goals, organize resources, and follow up and conclude activities.
• You are curious, creative, and open to new solutions.
• You can formulate yourself clearly and concretely. You adapt your language in both speech and writing based on the recipient.

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer.

We offer you

You are important to us! As an employee in Gävle Municipality, you have

• generous holiday conditions and as a new employee, you also have the right to paid leave already during your first year of employment
• compensation for health care and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months
• several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example, sick leave insurance and occupational accident insurance are included.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our values

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work in Gävle Municipality here:

https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization:

https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality is part of a Finnish-speaking administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be a merit.

Information to recruitment consultants and ad salespeople: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.