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Do you want to contribute to sustainable development in Stockholm County?

We are now looking for a socially engaged lawyer for case processing within the Planning and Building Act and the Environmental Code. You will belong to the Legal Affairs Division, currently placed in the Unit for Legal Operational Support and Review.

What does the role involve?

The County Administrative Board reviews appealed municipal decisions, mainly according to the Planning and Building Act, the Environmental Code, the Food Act, and the Act on Protection against Accidents. These cases are processed at the Unit for Legal Operational Support and Review.

In this role as a preparatory lawyer with us, you will be part of the unit's preparatory group for appealed cases. You will work independently but in close collaboration with both lawyers and case handlers. The tasks vary from case administration to qualified legal processing and decision-making. Examples of duties include reviewing and preparing incoming cases, dispatching decisions, time-limit checks, transferring cases to court, and handling requests for public documents. Based on the operational needs and the inflow of cases, you will also write decisions as a presenter within one or more of the case categories handled by the unit.

As an employee of the County Administrative Board, you may need to be assigned to other tasks within the unit, division, or agency. It is therefore a prerequisite that you are socially interested as a person and want to work with the breadth that the County Administrative Board has to offer.

Are you the one we are looking for?

For this role, you should have:

• a law degree (270 higher education credits) completed in 2025 or 2026,
• current experience of case processing within public operations,
• very good ability to express yourself simply and pedagogically in speech and writing in Swedish.

As a person, you are:

To succeed and thrive in the role, it is important that you are used to prioritizing among several tasks independently while also having the ability to work in a team. Furthermore, you are solution-oriented and flexible, responsive, unpretentious, and helpful. You have the ability to evaluate information to make correct, balanced, and legally secure assessments and prioritizations. In addition, you have very good collaboration skills, high integrity, and personal maturity, as well as the will and ability to contribute to a good work environment.

As an employee of the County Administrative Board, you need to:

• have the ability to make decisions with regard to several perspectives (holistic view),
• understand that a central role for the County Administrative Board is to make trade-offs between different interests,
• have the ability to prioritize and adapt to work with new tasks or in new contexts.

It is meritorious if you have:

• current experience of case processing at a county administrative board,
• knowledge of the case management system Platina,
• current experience of writing agency decisions.

We place decisive importance on personal qualities.

Employment

Employment type: a temporary position of approx. 6 months, possibly with the possibility of extension.

About us and the role

We work in centrally located premises in Stockholm. Possibility of remote work exists based on operational needs.

Approximately 110 employees currently work in the Legal Affairs Division. The division consists of five units, where the Unit for Legal Operational Support and Review is one of them. The Unit for Legal Operational Support and Review currently has approx. 35 employees.

How we recruit

You will be asked to answer a number of selection questions when you register your application and attach your CV. You do not need to attach a personal letter to this application.

Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.

If you have questions

Questions about the position are answered by the recruiting manager, Lovisa Ristner, Unit Manager, by phone at 010-223 12 35.

Union contact persons are: Susann Sass-Jonsson for SACO and Ulrika Holmström, and Maria Sand Vaziri for ST. All can be reached via the County Administrative Board's switchboard at 010-223 10 00.

Last day for applications: 2026-08-09

Reference number: 112-35140-2026

We welcome your application!

About the County Administrative Board

The Stockholm County Administrative Board is a unifying force for a growing and sustainable capital region. By taking responsibility for the whole, we find ways forward in complex societal issues. The holistic picture is an important starting point for us when we collaborate with municipalities, agencies, business life, and other important societal actors. On behalf of the government, we also work to ensure that national goals are implemented in our county. Here you will find experts in many different subject areas, and our combined competence has an astonishing breadth. Here you will learn something new every day.

Read more about us at www.lansstyrelsen.se/stockholm/jobba-hos-oss (https://www.lansstyrelsen.se/stockholm/jobba-hos-oss)

Open to all
We focus on your competence, not your other prerequisites. We are open to adapting the role or workplace to your needs.