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Communications Specialist – Strategic Doer for Halmstad Municipality

Do you want to use communication to create real value for customers and residents – while simultaneously helping to develop a department with high ambitions? Do you love communication, but have the ability to love our operations and their customers even more?

Then our position as Communications Specialist at the Service Administration in Halmstad Municipality might be your next challenge!

My name is Christel and I will be your direct manager. I am a positive and open person who is always available to my employees. For me, humor and teamwork are key components for success. I believe in a flat hierarchy where I act as your support and sounding board in all matters.

The Service Administration has a clear vision: we aim to be a role model for public service organizations. Here, your role as a communications specialist is crucial! You create the communication that drives us forward. This involves analyzing and strengthening our communicative capabilities by developing effective communication plans, creating creative content for our channels, and monitoring the impact of communication on operational goals.

Your Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, and follow up on communication initiatives in both daily operations and crises.
• Produce content across multiple channels (newsletters, intranet, web, and social media) as well as simple video and photography.
• Provide strategic support to the administration leadership and operational management teams.
• Strengthen managers and employees in their communicative work through advice and practical support.
• Support press and media management, as well as crisis communication, including the role of an on-call communications specialist.
• Coordinate the administration's communication, serve as the contact point for the central communications department, and participate in municipality-wide forums.

Your Qualifications

• You thrive on and drive change, always keeping our customers in focus. You balance personal drive and result-orientation with a strong ability to work in teams and collaborate.
• You are approachable, humble, and flat-hierarchy oriented, combining this with setting ambitious goals for yourself and the operation.
• Post-secondary education in communication/journalism or equivalent experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in broad communication work within a large organization – web, text, press, social media, photo/video, and proficiency in tools such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Experience in project managing strategic communication initiatives linked to operational goals/branding.
• Experience in crisis communication.
• Very high level of spoken and written Swedish.
• Additionally, experience in management group work and/or communication related to operational development is considered an asset.

What We Offer

• Great freedom and excellent development opportunities in the role.
• Primarily on-site work, with possibilities for remote work when operations allow.
• A culture characterized by learning, collaboration, innovation, and good treatment.
• Opportunity to build structures and working methods that strengthen communication within the administration.

Other Information

You will become part of the administration's support staff, a tight-knit team of specialists within the committee secretariat, security, project management, and development. We work closely with the administration leadership and are a driving force in supporting operations to achieve their goals.

The position is security-classified, and a security check will be conducted prior to employment.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Do you want to be part of an innovative administration that contributes to a better daily life for those who live, work, and visit Halmstad Municipality? At the Service Administration, we work together to offer our customers the best possible service in all our areas. We offer services including meals, property and operational services, IT, vehicles, personnel and payroll administration, and municipal guidance.

We are a professional organization in constant development; every day offers a new opportunity to try new methods and ways of working. Sometimes we succeed, and sometimes we learn – both are good! We provide good treatment to everyone, from children and educators in preschools and schools to our elderly in nursing homes. We are the administration that is with our municipal residents throughout their lives. Do you want to be part of that too?

When you work for Halmstad Municipality, you create meaning by shaping, strengthening, and enriching others' daily lives – whoever you are. Here, collaboration, balance, and the opportunity to develop, both as a professional and a human being, are important – we are the workplace where you get more out of life! Read more about us here.