Urban Planner for Malung-Sälen Municipality

Do you want to help develop one of Sweden's most expansive tourist municipalities?

Malung-Sälen Municipality is now seeking an Urban Planner for the Municipal Executive Board Administration.

Here, you will have the opportunity to drive development in a mountain municipality where collaboration and optimism for the future are in focus. Malung-Sälen is an expanding mountain municipality with strong growth in both the tourism industry and housing development. Here, you combine a meaningful societal mission with proximity to the mountains, nature, and outdoor life. We also offer a range of benefits for employees, such as wellness allowances, opportunities for competence development, and favorable pension solutions.

For several years, Malung-Sälen Municipality has worked in collaboration with, among others, local businesses on issues regarding sustainable mobility. In the spring, the municipality was granted support for several different projects within the mobility sector, which the municipality will drive itself and participate in alongside other key actors, parallel to regular operations in the urban planning and infrastructure areas.

Welcome to a workplace where we make a difference together – with respect, care, and security in focus.

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Job Responsibilities

In this role, you are expected to develop, create, and support the municipal group's strategic work and drive business development within the urban planning area. You work according to Malung-Sälen Municipality's values.

The assignment includes the following roles:

• Urban Planner within the municipality's ongoing operations in the infrastructure and public transport sector. In this role, you prepare cases, respond to consultations, and represent the municipality in Region Dalarna's various cooperation forums within the infrastructure and public transport areas, such as the public transport strategy forum, traffic development forum, county district meetings, etc.
• Project Manager on the Swedish side in a cross-border Interreg project between Sweden and Norway. This project investigates the possibilities for a future railway connection between Dalarna and the Norwegian county of Innlandet. The goal of the project is to lay the foundation for more sustainable passenger and freight transport across the national border, strengthen mobility, improve crisis preparedness, and increase the regional competitiveness of the border region. The project will produce a joint Norwegian-Swedish decision-making basis where transport needs, climate effects, and technical solutions are analyzed.
• Project Staff Member in various sub-projects within the Shift Sweden/Formas Lab Sälenfjällen project, which the municipality has been granted in collaboration with Dalarna University. The project runs for five years.

Lab Sälenfjällen was awarded four sub-projects with different project owners in the first round, and more calls are expected. Currently, project staff membership is included in the following sub-projects, and more may be added:

• Collaboration between tourist municipalities for sustainable mobility; project owner Region Gotland
• Planning models adapted for mountain and tourist areas; project owner Trivector Mobility
• Analysis of movement patterns to reduce car dependency; project owner Lindholmen Science Park

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have:

• A university education relevant to the assignment or other formal education, or alternatively, you have acquired equivalent knowledge and competence through work.
• Experience of working in urban planning and infrastructure.
• A B driver's license.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Documented experience in leading, implementing, and documenting projects.
• Very good ability to communicate in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.
• Experience of public procurement.

To function well in the role of Urban Planner, you need to:

• Have good judgment, be secure and independent with personal maturity.
• Take initiative and have an interest in change and development issues.
• Be receptive and have good cooperation skills.
• Find it easy to establish contacts and communicate.
• Have the ability to work long-term and goal-oriented.
• Be structured in prioritization, planning, implementation, documentation, follow-up, and feedback.

You enjoy being part of the municipality's work community and working in a politically governed organization. You are present and active so that you can perform your duties in the best possible way. You share knowledge and contribute to the municipality's professional development, collegial working methods, and social community.

Salary form: Monthly salary.
Salary interval: The position is a project appointment within a new assignment, and there is currently no directly comparable position with us. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting. For information about the salary range, contact the recruiting manager.
Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: Start date by agreement, end date: 2028-12-31.

As part of the recruitment process, work tests may occur to assess relevant competence and problem-solving ability.

To see all our ongoing recruitments, see www.malung-salen.se/ledigajobb (http://www.malung-salen.se/ledigajobb).

If you have previous experience working within our organization, internal references may be taken.

We have decided on the media channels to be used in the recruitment process. In light of this, we politely but firmly decline all contact regarding advertising, recruitment assistance, and staffing proposals.