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The Swedish Coast Guard is a civilian state authority that monitors Sweden's coast and large lakes around the clock. With our maritime capabilities, we are a central operational actor in the maritime environment. We have a unique mission within total defense, where we have tasks within both civil defense and, under certain conditions, also within military defense. Our mission includes sea surveillance, law enforcement, crime prevention, and environmental readiness at sea.

The Swedish Coast Guard is a workplace characterized by collaboration and commitment across organizational boundaries. Here, there are dedicated employees with varying competencies, creating a dynamic workplace with constant opportunities to learn new things. The Swedish Coast Guard works with and places great emphasis on employee engagement and leadership, which is why it is important that your values align with those of the Swedish Coast Guard – holistic view, goodwill, and commitment. The Swedish Coast Guard offers an attractive workplace distinguished by the strive to be free from discrimination and to provide equal opportunities and rights to everyone.

Description

The Swedish Coast Guard's Unit for Method Development Sea Surveillance is looking for a Business Developer within weapons, protection, and conflict management, located in Karlskrona, Gothenburg, Malmö, or Stockholm.

The Unit for Method Development Sea Surveillance belongs to the Authority's Department for Development and Innovation (UI) and is responsible for developing, establishing, monitoring, and managing methods for the Swedish Coast Guard's operational activities.

The unit is specifically responsible for developing capabilities within control, supervision, and crime prevention. Within these areas, conflict management, weapons, and protection are central functions that require operational experience, tactical understanding, and the ability to translate experience into governing methods and ways of working.

This vacancy is advertised in several locations, to apply follow this link:

Apply here (https://kustbevakningen.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:952853/)

Responsibilities

As a Business Developer within weapons, protection, and conflict management, you will become one of the Swedish Coast Guard's leading experts in the field. You are responsible for the authority's long-term capability development within your areas and serve as a qualified expert support and advisor to the entire authority within these subject areas.

You lead the development by creating system objectives, dimensioning steering documents, and method descriptions that lay the foundation for how the Swedish Coast Guard should develop, maintain, and use its operational capabilities. You translate operational needs, experiences, threat pictures, and legal requirements into methods and ways of working that ensure a uniform, legally secure, and operationally relevant application throughout the authority. You also lead the development of the production of protective equipment and material within the area of weapons, protection, and conflict management.

Qualifications

As an applicant, you have relevant post-secondary education combined with current work experience in current subject areas or equivalent competence as assessed by the Swedish Coast Guard.

You have:

• Documented experience of working with issues concerning weapons, protection, and operational tactics.
• Relevant operational and/or support function experience from, for example, the Swedish Coast Guard, the Swedish Armed Forces, the Swedish Police Authority, or other operations with similar assignments.

In addition to the above, it is also meritorious if you have:

• Knowledge and experience within the Swedish legal system.
• Knowledge and experience of writing governing documents at different levels and with varying degrees of detail.
• Knowledge and experience of capability dimensioning and system objective-setting work.
• Experience of project management and procedural case handling.
• Knowledge and experience of working against antagonistic threats.
• Experience from maritime operations.
• Documented experience of central development work in larger organizations or equivalent.

You express yourself very well orally and in writing in Swedish and English. You are analytical, structured, and have the ability to translate complex issues into clear and practically usable solutions.

You work independently and drive your issues forward, while also being good at building trust and collaborating with different parts of the operation. You are clear in your communication, have good judgment, and high personal integrity.

The Swedish Coast Guard is a law enforcement and crime-fighting authority with high demands on legal security and responsibility towards third parties. We therefore see that you have a strong ethical approach and act with the best interests of the operation and legal security in focus.

Tests may be used in the selection process.

Conditions

The position is a permanent employment with an initial probationary period. Start date according to agreement.

For employment, Swedish citizenship, a driver's license for passenger cars, a drug test, and a security clearance according to the Security Protection Act are required.

The Swedish Coast Guard participates in foreign missions and international operations. The employment therefore includes an obligation to serve abroad when required for the operation.

Permanent employment also includes an obligation to be mobilized in wartime.

This vacancy is advertised in several locations, to apply follow this link:

Business Developer weapons, protection and conflict management

Other

To ensure quality and streamline the recruitment process, we use an electronic application form in cooperation with Varbi for all open positions. Fill in your application as carefully as possible to give a fair picture of yourself.

The Swedish Coast Guard is a state authority, which means that the information you provide to us may be disclosed according to the principle of public access. Normally, there is no confidentiality for the information processed in the database. If you have protected personal data, you should contact the contact person specified in the advertisement.

In connection with the recruitment process, the Swedish Coast Guard has taken a stand on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.