Do you want to make Gävle even better with us?

At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

Employees at Livsmiljö Gävle (Living Environment Gävle) make the city more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day, we provide experiences for people while building, developing, and influencing today's and tomorrow's society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the daily lives of the people of Gävle. We offer you meaningful, stimulating, and developmental work. We ensure that Gävle grows and offers exciting experiences for its residents.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for someone who is passionate about sports, outdoor life, and community associations, and who enjoys making things happen together with others. We are now seeking a temporary Leisure Coordinator from September 2026 through February 2027.

In this role, you will be a key person in coordinating and developing the municipality's leisure activities. You will collaborate with associations, colleagues, and other stakeholders, contributing to creating good conditions for an active and inclusive leisure life. Here, you will combine structure and administration with development, dialogue, and collaboration.

The assignment includes, among other things:

• You will continuously work with the allocation of times and bookings in the municipality's sports arenas, ice halls, and sports grounds, followed by economic management.
• You will also handle key and passage cases, work on generating statistics, and draft new routines and agreements.
• You will have many contact points, primarily with Gävle's associations, businesses, and private individuals.
• We are looking for a Leisure Coordinator who has an interest in outdoor and sports issues.
• As a Leisure Coordinator, you have knowledge of associations, sports, and sports facilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

To succeed in the role, you have:

• Relevant education or experience: You have a suitable university degree or other experience that the employer deems equivalent.
• Experience in similar work: Within areas such as associations, sports, outdoor life, grant management, or operation of sports facilities.
• Meritorious: Experience from the public sector and knowledge of association life.
• Administrative competence and system proficiency: You have good knowledge of the Office package.
• Good communication skills in Swedish: You express yourself well in speech and writing and can adapt your communication to different target groups.

We believe you will thrive here if you are:

• Structured and analytical: You have the ability to plan and organize your work and see logic and connections in complex information and environments.
• Relationship-building and team-oriented: You easily build good relationships, have a non-hierarchical approach, and collaborate well with people in various contexts and functions.
• Goal-focused and efficient: You can prioritize, use resources thoughtfully, and work towards common goals.
• Flexible and adaptable: You are quick to change perspectives and working methods and enjoy varied tasks and changing situations.
• Holistic view and responsibility: You consider the best interests of the operations and actively contribute to achieving overall results.

Welcome with your application!

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: 2026-09-14, end date: 2027-08-15.

We offer you

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

• Generous holiday terms, and as a new employee, you are entitled to paid leave during your first year of employment.
• Compensation for health care and exercise when employed for more than three months.
• Various insurances through our collective agreements, including sickness insurance and work injury insurance.

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 carrying out our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base our actions on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at 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 administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it may be an asset.

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