We are looking for an Administrative Secretary for the Department of Children and Education

In Uppvidinge Municipality, we work with our core values of courage, tolerance, and creativity to provide excellent service and develop socially vital functions for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Uppvidinge Municipality is the largest employer in the municipality with approximately 800 employees. Here, we want our employees to feel a strong sense of involvement, with room for flexibility and development.

We offer meaningful work where we have the opportunity to truly make a difference for the municipality's residents. We welcome your application and invite you to a municipality with a thriving business life, a rich association life, and proximity to nature!

RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want a key role in the work of creating a legally secure and efficient administration? Then you could be our new Administrative Secretary!

As an Administrative Secretary, you are a central link between the administration and the political board. You work closely with politicians, managers, and colleagues and contribute to ensuring that our cases are handled correctly, efficiently, and with a high level of service.

In your role, you support the Head of Administration with administration, prepare and present cases for decision, and ensure that our processes run smoothly. You also handle cases regarding the release of public documents, diary registration, mail handling, and archiving. Additionally, you serve as secretary in both permanent and temporary working groups within the Department of Children and Education.

An important part of the assignment is to act as the board secretary for the Board of Children and Education and its committees. This means you are responsible for preparing invitations, agendas, writing minutes, and expediting decisions.

You will also work with issues related to security and preparedness, as well as conduct investigations as needed. Since we are a smaller administration, we help each other out, so you should enjoy having varied tasks and being flexible in your daily work.

Here you will get a varied role with great responsibility, where you make a real difference every day. We welcome your application!

QUALIFICATIONS

As an Administrative Secretary, you have an academic education with a social science orientation, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. You are structured and quality-conscious with a high sense of service. You are accustomed to taking personal responsibility and can work both independently and together with others. You have very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing, as well as very good knowledge of the Office package. You have knowledge of municipal and administrative law. You find it easy to get to grips with new digital systems.

Experience of similar tasks from public administration and knowledge of Ciceron are meritorious.

• Salary form: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
• Duration: 6 months or longer, start: 2026-10-19 Or by agreement, end: 2027-08-31.
• Working hours: Daytime.

Interviews are conducted continuously, and the position may be filled before the application period ends, so please send your application early.

The position is subject to necessary decisions being made.

If you become a candidate for employment, the employer will request an extract from the criminal record register. The Municipal Executive Board has decided that all new hires must present a criminal record extract before employment. The extract to be presented is for work in schools or preschools.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Uppvidinge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or paper format.

In connection with the recruitment work, Uppvidinge Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.