Vacant job

Work on democracy, case preparation, law, and citizens' rights is a central and important part of Region Gotland.

The City Secretariat is part of the Regional Council unit. Within the City Secretariat, the City Secretary, together with the Council Secretary, is responsible, among other things, for providing Region Gotland's elected officials in the Regional Assembly, Regional Executive Board, and associated preparatory committees and committees with summonses and documents, for conducting meetings, and for writing minutes.

Currently, important work is underway to improve and quality-assure the case preparation process, where the City Secretariat plays a central role.

Your responsibilities

As a City Secretary, you are part of the City Secretariat within the Regional Executive Board Administration. You will be one of three City Secretaries and work in close collaboration with the Regional Director, Council Manager, Council Secretary, other civil servants, and elected officials.

Your main responsibilities are to plan and conduct meetings with the Regional Executive Board, committees, preparatory committees, and the Regional Assembly, together with the relevant civil servants and elected officials. This involves long-term planning for the entire year, shorter-term planning before each meeting, and detailed planning for each case. The role of City Secretary also includes supporting case handlers in case preparation and other committee secretaries in the case process.

In the role of City Secretary, you will work with business development issues and drive prioritized improvement work regarding case preparation, both within your own administration and overall within Region Gotland, together with the unit manager and employees in the City Secretariat. You will also conduct training for case handlers, managers, and other relevant parties.

Region Gotland offers you an independent and varied job where you are at the center of the case preparation process and political decision-making, where you become part of a larger whole, and where our mission contributes to making everyday life better for all residents of Gotland.

Who are you?

We see that you have a relevant university education, preferably in law or social sciences.

We consider it highly meritorious if you have previous experience in case preparation, administrative work, public access and secrecy legislation, Local Government Act, and Administrative Procedure Act. If you have previously worked in a regionally or municipally politically governed organization as well as with processes and case flows, this is meritorious.

As a person, we see that you are meticulous in your work, you easily see connections, and can switch between an overarching holistic perspective and detailed issues. You possess good administrative skills. We would appreciate that you have experience working with business development. You place great value in and feel great responsibility for your assignments, their implementation, and results.

Since you will work closely with elected officials and civil servants at different levels in Region Gotland, it is important that you enjoy creating good relationships and that you find it easy to collaborate with others. To succeed in the role of City Secretary, you must have a pedagogical and structured working method, the ability to work with several parallel processes simultaneously, and be a good communicator who expresses yourself effortlessly in speech and writing.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

Why choose Region Gotland?

We are the island's largest employer – with over 200 different professions and 7,000 employees in Sweden's only combined region and municipality. Together we are developing a sustainable, safe, and prosperous Gotland for everyone who lives on and visits the island.

On Gotland, there is a rich cultural life, magnificent nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. Over 61,000 people have chosen to call Gotland their home, year-round. Are you not one of us yet, but curious to become? Read more about life on the island at www.gotland.com/flytta-hit (http://www.gotland.com/flytta-hit)

We care about our employees and are proud of our benefits. Please read more at www.gotland.se/formaner (http://www.gotland.se/formaner)

On the Instagram account @viarregiongotland you can follow our employees and see the breadth of our various operations.

How we recruit

We work according to a competency-based recruitment method and therefore place great emphasis on personal suitability in accordance with the competencies described in the advertisement. In this way, we also actively work to counter discrimination.

We are keen on safety and quality in our recruitments, and you may therefore be subject to checks prior to employment. If relevant, you will receive more information from the recruiter. ID documents and police record certificate must always be presented.

The position is filled subject to the condition that it does not need to be offered to employees with priority rights.