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About the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården)

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is growing – we are building new facilities, renovating, and expanding, and we are now looking for more employees. Our most important goal is to reduce recidivism – to break the vicious cycle. If we succeed, society will become safer and more secure for everyone. We are the agency responsible for prisons, probation services, remand prisons, and client transport.

Job Responsibilities

Our department creates the prerequisites for operational activities within the Mid Sweden region. We support managers in planning and staffing operational personnel and contribute to ensuring that operations can be conducted efficiently, around the clock, every day of the year.

As a Personnel Planner, you will help continue to build upon our staffing planning and develop working methods together with the operational units.

As a Personnel and Staffing Planner, you play a central role with close contact with the core operations, where you ensure quality-assured and efficient staffing based on current laws, routines, and collective agreements. Your work is both strategic and operational: you handle short-term vacancies and staffing challenges such as sick leave, while simultaneously building competencies to solve long-term needs. Through proactive planning – for example, before holiday periods and training – you work towards set goals and create sustainable staffing over time.

In this role, you work close to the operations, which means you will be out in the operational units on a continuous basis to ensure good collaboration and close dialogue. The planning for this, as well as continuous operational visits, will take place in agreement with the relevant operational area. Other business travel may also occur.

To succeed in the role, you need experience in staffing planning as well as basic knowledge of labor law and contractual issues. Here, you will become part of an engaged team with great competence in staffing and planning.

We are now looking for a Personnel Planner for an exciting and important role. The position is located in Västerås.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who collaborate well with other people, listen, communicate, are proactive, and solve problems in a smooth and constructive way. You have an interest in helping your colleagues deliver solutions and support where needed. You work in a structured manner by planning, organizing, and prioritizing your work efficiently. You are diligent with deadlines and set and keep timeframes. Much can change during a working day, so you adapt easily to changed circumstances. You might even appreciate flexibility in your daily work and see opportunities in change.

You work well with complex issues and can analyze difficult problems. In the role, it is important to be able to make correct trade-offs and prioritizations despite time constraints. In our staffing planning, many things happen at once, which means you need to keep your cool and focus on the right things even though stressful and pressuring situations may arise. As an applicant, you should have good experience and demonstrated ability within HR and ranking. It is important that you have good administrative skills.

For us, it is important that you share the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's fundamental values regarding a humane view of humanity, respect for the individual, and belief in human will and ability to develop. You are also aware of and understand how background, culture, and group affiliation affect yourself and others. Furthermore, you are expected to contribute with your attitude to ensuring that everyone is treated equally. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We are looking for you who have:

• Completed upper secondary education or other education combined with working life experience that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service deems relevant.
• Current experience working with personnel or staffing planning.
• Ability to express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• Very good computer skills (common work with administration).

Meritorious qualifications include:

• Current experience with personnel and staffing systems.
• Experience working within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.
• Current knowledge of laws and agreements (labor law, working time regulations, policies, etc.).
• Experience working in the public sector.
• Experience with personnel planning in Heroma.
• Experience with Excel.

Conditions

Working hours: Daytime: Monday-Friday, flexible working hours agreement.

Other Information

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has chosen to remove the cover letter and replaced it with selection questions relevant to the position. The answers to the selection questions and the CV form the basis for determining if you are qualified to proceed in the process.

To be considered for employment within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, you must meet high requirements regarding suitability, judgment, security and confidentiality awareness, and that you follow current laws. This means you stand up for democratic values and the state values that apply to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's operations.

Some positions are placed in security classes, and a security check with register control will be conducted before a decision on employment is made. Swedish citizenship is required for some security-classified positions. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Read more about security checks here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/ (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/)

The position may involve war-time placement at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Read more about war-time placement here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/ (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/)

Individual salary setting applies.

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service strives for a balanced gender distribution and increased diversity.

To submit your application, click the application link in the advertisement. Questions about how to apply and upload your CV should be directed directly to Varbi. Questions about specific jobs are answered by the contact person stated in the advertisement.

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of recruitment advertisements. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has procured agreements.

Interviews

Interviews will preliminarily be held during weeks 31-32.