Junior Lawyer? Build Your Future in Örkelljunga Municipality.

Örkelljunga is part of the "Helsingborg Family," where 11 municipalities in the expanding region of Northern Scania work together to benefit the common area. Örkelljunga is a municipality with a stable economy and currently has just over 10,000 inhabitants. It is characterized by closeness, where strong collaboration and short decision-making paths are the municipality's strengths. As an employee here, you have greater opportunities to influence your personal development as well as the overall development of the operations. In Örkelljunga Municipality, we work with a professional approach characterized by our three core values: knowledge, care, and action. As part of Örkelljunga Municipality, you have the opportunity to work across boundaries and make a significant difference.

As a lawyer in Örkelljunga Municipality, you will have a unique opportunity to build broad legal expertise. Your placement will be central within the Municipal Executive Office, but you will work closely with operations, managers, and elected officials throughout the municipality. With the support of experienced colleagues, you will have the opportunity to gradually develop in the role and grow into an independent specialist responsibility.

Here, you work with law that truly affects people's daily lives. The tasks are varied and cover several areas of law, giving you good opportunities to develop both breadth and depth in your competence. You contribute legal support to the organization and become an important part of the work with, among other things, data protection (GDPR), information management, governing documents, and other municipality-wide development issues. Together, we work to make legislation understandable, useful, and value-creating for the entire organization.

Örkelljunga is a municipality with high ambitions. As an employee here, you build your reputation through good relationships and close collaboration with the operations. Our core mission is to support the municipality's managers and employees so that they can deliver high-quality welfare to the residents.

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Job Responsibilities

We are looking for you who want to gain a unique breadth in your legal career, work close to decision-makers, and at the same time make a real difference for people. Örkelljunga Municipality is seeking a newly graduated lawyer or someone at the beginning of their career who wants to develop long-term in an exciting and socially important role in our municipality.

A part of the position is within the specialist area of guardianship administration. Cases involve guardianship, estate administration, and curatorship, where one contributes to ensuring legal certainty for persons in need of society's support. Our current guardianship administrator has announced that they intend to retire in the near future, which means you will be offered a thorough introduction and mentorship before you gradually take over the responsibility. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn a specialist area directly from a very experienced colleague. A development project regarding the digitalization of personal files is under investigation and could be the next step in our work to streamline and optimize our work processes.

In the role, you will among other things:

Process cases within guardianship, estate administration, and curatorship
Review accounts and exercise supervision over guardians and administrators
Investigate cases and prepare materials for court
Make decisions in various permit cases
Investigate complaints and questions from citizens
Recruit and support guardians and administrators
Write service reports and decision materials
Provide legal support to the municipality's operations
Interpret and implement legislation within different parts of municipal operations.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a law degree. It is meritorious if you have an interest in or special knowledge of family law, inheritance law, and social law, but we value above all your willingness to develop and broaden your legal competence.

You are curious, analytical, and enjoy solving problems. You can structure complex information and explain legal issues in an understandable way. You enjoy collaborating with others but are also ready to take initiative and grow with responsibility.

As a person, you are:

Engaged and development-oriented
Service-oriented and unpretentious
Structured and meticulous
Communicative in speech and writing
Curious about learning new areas of law
Interested in making a difference from day one

In Örkelljunga Municipality, you get an opportunity that few lawyers get early in their career to work broadly, develop quickly, and at the same time contribute to a legally secure and well-functioning society.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, Start date: Start 2026 according to agreement.

In Örkelljunga Municipality, we apply individual and equal pay. This position has a salary range of 38,000–43,000 SEK/month, depending on experience, competence, and market conditions.

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Employment requires that you have the right to work in Sweden, which you need to prove upon employment.

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