Vacant job

Ref: 20261605

In August 2025, Hyllie Youth Centre opened its doors. The centre is aimed at young people from Year 6 to the final year of upper secondary school and aims to be a safe, inclusive, and inspiring meeting place where young people feel welcome. We are now looking for a substitute youth worker who wants to help develop and shape the activities together with young people and colleagues. The current position is a temporary assignment lasting approximately 9 months.

Job Responsibilities

As a youth worker, you will plan and carry out leisure activities with a focus on open activities, group activities, and outreach work. You work to create a meaningful leisure time for young people and have a coaching approach where you support young people's ideas and projects and guide them towards an active and developmental leisure time. Together with your colleagues, you will collaborate with local actors to broaden the activities and create an attractive youth centre.

Within the Youth Centre Unit, you will collaborate with other meeting places during various events and holiday activities. Collaboration with different actors, both municipal operations and civil society, is an important part of the assignment.

Your schedule includes regular day, evening, and weekend shifts.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have a youth worker degree from a folk high school or other relevant post-secondary education combined with experience working with our target group. Other relevant post-secondary education could include, for example: pedagogy, social work, criminology, social sciences, leisure pedagogy, social work (socionom), social pedagogy, teacher, sociology, gender studies, sports science, international relations, or human rights.
• Have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written.

It is meritorious if you:

• Have experience in driving projects or developing leisure activities.
• Have documented knowledge of norm-critical perspectives, gender equality, and youth participation.
• Have experience in outreach youth work.
• Have been involved voluntarily in some activity or association.

We are looking for you who are driven and proactive with a strong commitment. You are comfortable taking an active role in the activities and have a natural ability to engage and inspire others. With your positive aura and spontaneity, you contribute to a lively and inclusive environment. You are relationship-building and contribute to a warm, safe, and permissive atmosphere.

As the activities are being built from scratch, we see that you are initiative-taking, action-oriented, and have the ability to turn ideas into practice. You collaborate well with colleagues, young people, and external actors and find it easy to contact both young people and professionals. You enjoy creating structure and organizing your work, both independently and together with others. You are development-driven and show genuine commitment to both the activities and the young people.

Do you want to help create a meaningful leisure time for young people in Hyllie? Submit your application today!

About the Workplace

Youth Centre Unit

Malmö's youth centres run youth centre activities at many locations around the city, for the target group of children and young people in Year 4 to the final year of upper secondary school. Youth centre activities are more than just a place for activities – it is a place where young people receive support, are seen, and heard. We meet and engage young people on their own terms by building long-term relationships. In our youth centre activities, you make a difference – every day.

Leisure Services Department

Do you think it is important that all Malmö residents have a meaningful leisure time? Do you want to contribute to a rich association life and a wide range of leisure activities? Then you are welcome to apply for a job with us at the Leisure Services Department. Our activities range from the city's sports and leisure facilities to youth centres, swimming schools, and coordination of the city's local work. We provide support and service to the city's association life and ensure that both large and small events contribute to experiences and meetings in Malmö.

Malmö City's operations are organized into 14 departments. Our common mission is to create welfare and sustainable societal development. Together with the people of Malmö, we are developing an even better city to live, work, and be in; differences, life experiences, and talents make Malmö a smart city in the heart of Europe. The world's knowledge is here.

Read about Malmö City as an employer here http://www.malmo.se/jobb (http://www.malmo.se/jobb)

Information about the position

Employment type: Fixed-term employment

Scope: Full-time

Number of positions: 1

Start date: 1/9 or as agreed

Other

Please note that Malmö City has removed the cover letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions, this for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you who are applying for a job with us. Your answers will become an important part of our selection work.

With support from the law (2013:852) on register control of persons who are to work with children, an extract from the criminal record and the suspicion register will need to be shown if employment is relevant. This is because the work involves contact with children and young people. Link to the extract can be found here: Criminal Record Register for Children in Other Activities (https://polisen.se/sv/forebyggande/ungdomar/barn-i-verksamhet/).

Malmö City strives for employees to represent the diversity that exists in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to us as employers meeting the needs of the people of Malmö.