Chief of Staff for the Director General's Office at Lantmäteriet

Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registration Authority) is the agency responsible for mapping Sweden. Our tasks also include registering and securing ownership of all real estate properties as well as managing their boundaries. We are now looking for you who have a strong commitment to societal engagement.

Lantmäteriet is the state mapping authority and administrative authority for issues regarding real estate division, basic geographical information, real estate information, and registration. Lantmäteriet is governed, among other things, by the government's annual letter of appropriation and is a board-governed authority. The Director General is the head of the authority.

We are now strengthening the team around the Director General and are therefore looking for a Chief of Staff. Today, there are two employees on the staff, and it will soon be expanded with several competencies. You will have the opportunity to influence and shape working methods and processes and create results in close collaboration with others. A goal with the DG's staff is a unified and coordinated support.

1 position.

Responsibilities

The DG's staff provides strategic and administrative management support to the Director General and coordinates certain cross-authority issues. The staff has tasks such as coordinating, initiating, and driving issues in relation to the Government Offices, assisting the Legal Counsel with legislative development, coordinating the DG's cases and preparation of such cases before decisions, quality-assuring and following up on some of the authority's planning, steering, and supporting documents, and providing administrative support to the board, the DG, and the management group. This also entails responsibility for planning and coordinating the work in Lantmäteriet's management group and board work.

As Chief of Staff, you are also responsible for conducting cross-authority analysis/environmental analysis and investigation work, as well as producing background materials and reports for the authority's management.

As Chief of Staff, you play a central role in supporting the head of the authority and streamlining management work. The staff is responsible for supporting the DG in his task of steering, leading, and following up on the authority's overall operations, and the Chief of Staff often acts as a link between the DG and the organization's top managers as well as external actors. This means that you personally provide strategic and operational support to the DG. An important task for the Chief of Staff is to lead the staff work by building up, leading, and driving the staff and the work there. The Chief of Staff is responsible for preparing cases and background materials and for meeting minutes for the management group and the board.

You are a key person to ensure that the head of the authority's decisions are communicated and implemented in the organization. The Chief of Staff also leads the staff's work and has overall responsibility for operations, budget, and personnel. The assignment also includes independently carrying out assignments on your own initiative or from the DG. You will support and steer the operations in a changing time that places new demands.

The role presupposes good cooperation within and outside the staff and with trade union parties and chief safety representatives. You are a role model as a manager and leader.

The location is at Lantmäteriet's offices in Gävle, Uppsala, or Stockholm. The majority of employees within the staff are located in Gävle, which is why regular presence in Gävle is required.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have an academic degree or equivalent work experience and at least five years of qualified and current work experience in leading operational and strategic management work that continuously provides support to top management in a larger organization. Experience of working from a state authority or within the Government Offices is a requirement. You must also have substantial experience of working with strategic development issues and long-term change work in a complex operation. You have experience of working in a authority's top management group and experience of handling media attention.

You have experience of working in collaboration and dialogue both within and outside your own organization, leading in complex organizations with cross-functional groups, and development work through portfolio management.

Your ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish is very good.

We place great emphasis on your personal qualities. To thrive with us, you need to be able to work result-oriented, show drive, and work focused on what is to be achieved. You take strategic responsibility for performing the tasks in the staff together with your employees. You have a working style in everyday life where you drive, involve, coordinate, implement, inform, support, and steer. You also easily find a balance and a clear connection between the strategic, the tactical, and the operational. You are stable and trustworthy as a person and have an easy time cooperating, collaborating, and communicating both in speech and writing. You have a high capacity and enjoy having many issues going on at the same time.

In addition to this, you have personal ability and aptitude to work in accordance with Lantmäteriet's employee, manager, and leadership criteria.

Working in the state means that you follow the state's value base. There are also special requirements on judgment, security thinking, and that you follow current laws.

The position is security-classified, which means that you must be a Swedish citizen and that a security investigation with register control and security investigation interview will be conducted before employment. The role also entails that you will be placed on war footing.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, Start date: Start date according to agreement.

Lantmäteriet is in constant development, and so are all of us who work here. Our employees are our most important resource for succeeding with our mission. We work based on developmental employment and we act based on the state's value base.

As an employee at Lantmäteriet, you should be able to combine work with leisure and have a good balance in life. When operations allow, you have, among other things, the opportunity to perform your work tasks largely from a location other than the office. Read more about our offer at lm.se/jobbahososs (https://lm.se/jobbahososs)

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