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Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural settings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently facing a period of intense development with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the category of large urban municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, care and social services, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is, in other words, a Super Municipality!

The Employment Unit is one of four units within the Business and Support activity in the Support and Care Sector.

At the Employment Unit, we base our work on BIP research, which emphasizes the importance of an individual's resources, motivation, and belief in their own abilities to achieve establishment on the labor market.

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

In the role of Coordinator, you will play a central part in creating pathways to work and self-sufficiency for individuals outside the labor market. You will act as the link between participants, employers, the Swedish Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), municipal activities, and other collaborating actors.

Through active and relationship-building work, you develop and maintain collaborations with both private and public employers. You work to identify employers' competence and recruitment needs and contribute to creating opportunities for participants through internships, work training, competence development, and employment.

Responsibilities include, among other things:

• Actively work to create internship positions, work training spots, and employment opportunities
• In collaboration with employment caseworkers, map the target group's competencies, resources, and support needs
• Match participants with internships, work training, and employment, as well as follow up and quality-assure placements
• Map employers' labor needs and identify demanded competencies on the labor market
• Plan and conduct seminars together with caseworkers to strengthen the target group's opportunities for self-sufficiency through courses, education, and other competence-enhancing measures
• Coordinate study visits, information meetings, and other activities in collaboration with employers and external actors.
• Plan, coordinate, and develop the municipality's holiday jobs by ensuring access to holiday positions and being responsible for follow-up

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have post-secondary education and experience from similar work that the employer considers relevant for the assignment.

You have experience working with one or more of the following target groups: long-term unemployed, persons with reduced work capacity, newly arrived immigrants, or persons in social vulnerability. You have a professional and goal-oriented approach with a focus on individual development.

You have knowledge and/or experience working with persons with mental and physical functional variations, mental ill health, and work rehabilitation. It is meritorious if you have experience with persons with psychiatric and addiction issues, as well as collaboration with authorities and private employers.

We also expect you to have good knowledge of subsidized employment and labor market measures, good digital skills, documentation habits, and good verbal and written communication skills.

To succeed in the role, you are communicative, structured, and solution-focused. You work goal-oriented with individual development, adapt support based on needs and conditions, and follow up on measures in a systematic way. You are flexible and non-hierarchical, and enjoy working both independently and in close collaboration with others.

We also value that you have the ability to identify development needs and contribute to the development of the activity in a changing environment.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Working hours: Daytime.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the activity, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as a fitness allowance and employee health programs.

Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html) and the General Provisions AB Collective Agreement https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html (https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html). We apply individual and differentiated wage setting, and the individual salary is influenced by both the complexity of the position and your competence and experience.

In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, we have made wage statistics available on our website, and you can find information about our collective agreement, employee benefits, and the applicable salary range for the current position here:

https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner)

Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as a guide for you as a job seeker.

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use a personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system logins or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.