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The IT department of the County Administrative Boards is growing to meet the broad and varied IT needs of Sweden's 21 County Administrative Boards. We develop and maintain business-specific applications, provide daily IT support for employees, and offer e-services for citizens and businesses – contributing to a democratic, sustainable, and secure society.

Here, you might work with IT security, system development, business systems, support, automation, and integration. We also play a central role in the County Administrative Boards' position as the highest regional authority responsible for civil defense. Join us in developing IT services that make communities, people, animals, nature, and cultural values function – both today and in the future!

About the Job

Do you want to lead application assignments that make a difference for society? Do you have a technical profile and are you driven by development? Are you skilled at communicating with business units and thrive on managing multiple parallel assignments? Then you might be the Project Manager we are looking for for the IT Department of the County Administrative Boards.

As a Project Manager, you work with and take responsibility for assignments within the management objects and planned within the management plan. The business areas relevant for this position are primarily finance, payroll, and HR, but you will also be involved in other business areas.

You will:

• plan, coordinate, and follow up on assignments
• translate business needs into requirements
• work with sprint planning
• plan testing prior to deployment and coordinate the deployment process
• participate in further developing working methods within objects and functions

You thrive in a role where you handle multiple assignments simultaneously and have close collaboration with your colleagues. You collaborate closely with management leads, system engineers, business units, IT architects, and project managers.

You will have many contacts – both within the IT Department and with business units, as well as in cooperation with suppliers and other authorities. In this role, you work on interesting assignments together with engaged and accessible colleagues. You are involved in many activities with the opportunity to contribute to improvements, and you see the entire assignment from start to deployment.

We are always developing our operations, so you need to be open to the possibility that your tasks may change over time.

The IT Department of the County Administrative Boards is located across the country. Location: Gothenburg, Mariestad, Vänersborg, Karlstad, or Luleå. We offer flexible work with good opportunities for remote work part of the time.

Travel within the country occurs.

About You

To succeed in this role, we are looking for someone with a structured approach, good ability to plan assignments, and keep track of many parallel tasks and activities. You drive your assignments with persistence towards the goals the team has set together. You are curious and eager to learn new things.

Since the role involves many contacts, you need to be good at collaborating and communicating. You have the ability to express yourself simply and clearly, both verbally and in writing.

As our colleagues are spread across many locations in Sweden, we work extensively with digital meetings, and you thrive in this virtual way of working.

Personal qualities are important to us, and we expect you to act according to the Swedish Government's Values (Statskontoret) and contribute to a good work climate.

You have:

• A relevant academic degree (e.g., Civil Engineer, Computer Scientist, System Scientist) or post-secondary education in project or assignment management combined with practical experience in IT management.
• Previous experience leading IT projects or assignments and are accustomed to driving work from idea to deployment.
• Knowledge of and experience with different management models, such as PM³ or product-centric models.
• Practical experience with agile tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps) and the ability to adapt them to the team's needs.

We would like you to have:

• Previous experience developing and implementing business systems and understanding how they support the business.
• Insight into financial, HR, and payroll processes and the ability to translate these into IT requirements.
• Experience gathering, formulating, and prioritizing requirements in close collaboration with business units.
• Basic knowledge of how IT architecture is built and how different systems interact.
• Experience working with information security.

We believe in equal opportunities for all, and one of our main assignments is to promote diversity and a staff composition that reflects the population of the counties.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Good to Know

Read more about us on our website: Working in the IT Department. Here you will find information about our benefits. We are also on LinkedIn.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the contact person from week 33, when they are available again.

In this recruitment, we do not want you to attach a personal letter. To tell us about your experiences and skills, you will answer a number of questions in your application. This is so we can assess to what extent your competence and prerequisites match our needs. The application must be in Swedish as it is our working language.

We have high demands on our employees' security awareness. Security clearance according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) will be conducted before we make a decision on employment. For some positions, Swedish citizenship may be required. Read more about security clearance at the Security Service (sakerhetspolisen.se).

The County Administrative Board is an emergency authority and has a specifically designated responsibility during crisis and war/high alert.

The salary level for the position is between 47,000 SEK - 53,000 SEK per month.

In this recruitment, we work with rolling selections. This means we may invite to interviews even before the application deadline has passed.

The employment may begin with a six-month probationary period.

We have chosen our recruitment channels and do not wish to be contacted by recruitment agencies.