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About SVA

Dangerous animal diseases can have serious consequences for animals, humans, the economy, and food supply. The National Veterinary Institute (SVA) is an expert and emergency preparedness authority that contributes to good animal health and reduced disease transmission between animals and humans through diagnostics, research, and expert knowledge. SVA is part of the emergency preparedness sector for Food Supply and Drinking Water. Healthy animals – secure people.

The HR department consists of an HR Manager, HR Administrator, HR Generalist, two HR Specialists, and an Occupational Health and Safety Engineer. Together, we form the authority's HR function and provide support to managers and employees regarding employer issues, competence supply, occupational health and safety, and organizational development.

Do you want to contribute to developing our operations through strategic and business-oriented HR work? We are now looking for an HR Specialist who wants to lead and develop issues related to competence supply, labor law, and cooperation.

Your future responsibilities

As an HR Specialist, you are responsible for driving and developing work within competence supply, labor law, and cooperation. You work both strategically and operationally to ensure that the organization has the right competence, today and in the future.

You also have a business-oriented HR support assignment towards one or more departments and act as a qualified support to managers in various HR matters. In this role, you have many contact points and collaborate closely with managers, employees, and trade union organizations.

The responsibilities include, among other things:

• driving and developing the organization's work with strategic competence supply
• conducting competence analyses and competence mapping
• working with strategic workforce planning and succession planning
• developing processes and methods within the competence supply area
• being responsible for and developing forms of cooperation together with trade union organizations
• planning, preparing, and coordinating issues within the cooperation council
• working with labor law issues and providing support to the entire authority, including the HR team
• providing qualified support to managers in HR-related matters
• contributing to the development of the HR function's methods and processes
• supporting the organization in matters related to the state agreement area

The HR function is in a development phase where business-oriented HR support is gradually being developed and strengthened, giving you the opportunity to combine a clear specialist responsibility with developing future HR support in the organization. You will work closely with your colleagues within HR.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have:

• an academic education in HR, personnel science, or other education that the employer considers equivalent
• experience in qualified HR work
• experience in strategic work with competence supply
• experience in cooperation with trade union organizations
• good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish

Great importance is attached to personal qualities. To succeed in the role, you are a person who takes responsibility for your issues and drives the work forward in a structured manner. You have good analytical skills and can immerse yourself in large amounts of information, identify needs, and translate them into concrete proposals and solutions.

You collaborate well with others, build trusting relationships, and have the ability to create dialogue between different interests and perspectives. At the same time, you are confident in your profession and can independently prepare, drive, and follow up on issues within your area of responsibility.

Meritorious

It is meritorious if you have:

• experience from state or other public operations
• experience of working within the state agreement area
• experience of developing processes, methods, or governing HR structures

Conditions

• Last application date: 2026-07-21
• Employment type: Permanent position at 100%. We apply a 6-month initial probationary period.
• Start date: As agreed.
• Department: The Staff HRK
• Location: Uppsala, some possibility for remote work exists.

We only receive applications here: Apply here (https://sva.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:952546/)

Other

SVA is a state authority, which means that received documents become public. Applicants with protected identity should contact us directly and not apply via Varbi. Tests and work samples may be part of the recruitment process, and background checks may be conducted. Swedish citizens who are appointed to permanent positions are mobilized at the authority. For some positions, security clearance with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) is required, and in some cases Swedish citizenship.

In connection with the recruitment work, SVA has taken a conscious active stance towards recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore do not wish to be contacted by advertising sales or recruitment agencies.

Grow and develop at SVA – welcome with your application!

SVA values a good balance between work and private life. As an employee with us, you will benefit from favorable vacation terms (28–35 days), the possibility of flextime, health care during working hours, and access to a staff gym. You can also engage in our staff associations focusing on sports, music, and dogs. Read more about our benefits here (#).