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We are proud of Trollhättan Municipality's over 5,000 employees, who make a positive difference in our residents' lives every day and contribute to developing the city's sustainability and vitality. We are driven and motivated by our core values: Courage, Participation, Innovation, and Action. Here, you will find exciting developments where you can help make our city even better.

Description

Trollhättan Municipality's Communications Department develops the organization's communication with employees, residents, and other stakeholders. We are responsible for our communication platforms and guiding documents, and we support various departments with different communication initiatives. We currently consist of nine employees; most work as generalists towards one or several departments, while others specialize in areas such as web, graphic profile, and social media.

We are now looking for a communicator who will primarily support the Education Department, one of our largest departments. The Education Department offers security and development for our youngest residents in Trollhättan and their guardians, striving to make schools and preschools places people look forward to visiting. As a communicator, you will play a key role in the department's journey of change. Part of this journey involves demographic changes, with fewer children and young people in the coming years. Another part involves developing trust-based governance and leadership, both within the department and across the entire Municipality of Trollhättan.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will need several years of experience in strategic and operational communication work, preferably in a municipal organization or another public sector entity. You will work extensively with coaching and supporting department management and principals in connection with media issues, crises, and various larger and smaller change processes.

In addition to working with the Education Department, you may support various city-wide projects and processes with communication expertise. The assignments may change over time.

You will also work operationally to coordinate the Education Department's communication on the web, intranet, and social media. Other tasks may include strengthening communication around our profile schools with various campaigns, sometimes acting as the client for our procured communication agency. You will need to be prepared to handle the full breadth of a communicator's tasks, with support from knowledgeable colleagues in the Communications Department. You do not need to be an expert in everything yourself! Although you often work independently, we have combined competence with both breadth and specialization, and we support each other.

We are a group of smart, ambitious, and knowledgeable colleagues who develop and have fun together. We share our knowledge and are happy to test new ways of working. Here, you have good conditions to do a good and professional job. We are a development-oriented workplace with, for example, an organization-wide communication strategy, an easy-to-use graphic profile, and a newly built studio with professional equipment.

Qualifications

You likely have a university degree in communication studies or equivalent, and several years of experience in strategic and operational communication work in the public sector.

To succeed in your assignment, it is important that you identify with several of the following statements:

• You have experience coaching managers and leadership in communication matters concerning both internal and external communication.
• You have extensive experience with press work and/or crisis management.
• You work relationship-oriented and build trust in your person.
• You have experience supporting larger change projects/processes with communication.
• You have experience adapting communication for different target groups, quickly identifying the core of complex information, and making it accessible to others.
• You have experience producing communication in various forms, and you are a confident user of most of the communicator's tools such as the Adobe suite, web publishing systems, video editing, newsletters, etc.
• You have basic knowledge and understanding of the legislation that affects our work, such as the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (OSL) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

To function well in the role, you need to be collaborative, as the role involves many different contacts within your department and with other parts of the organization. You need to have integrity and the ability to navigate complex organizations, as well as be flexible and receptive to adapting your work as the business needs change. You will work independently with several parallel assignments; therefore, it is important that you are results-oriented and can create structure for your work and keep to set deadlines on your own.

We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement!

Trollhättan is a strong and attractive municipality that is growing. Today we have approximately 59,000 residents, and we aim to grow to 70,000 residents. Within Trollhättan Municipality, we work to create the conditions for this. We are over 5,000 employees, and our 350 different professions contribute in various ways to providing service and facilitating a good daily life for our residents – now and in the future. We see diversity as a strength that enriches our operations and welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

Trollhättan Municipality applies a smoke-free working environment.