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The Swedish Armed Forces are in an expansion phase and on a significant growth journey. Do you want to contribute to staffing our operations, ensuring a stronger defense and a safer world? Together with competent and engaged colleagues, you will have responsibility, development, and challenges. All of this with an employer that encourages work-life balance and good health.

Main Responsibilities

As a Recruiter, you will help build a new recruitment function where you will have the opportunity to influence how we work and take the initiative for new approaches to successfully recruit the right competence at the right time. You will work broadly with attraction, recruitment, and onboarding in collaboration with the rest of the recruitment team, managers, and HR.

Together with the rest of the recruitment team, you will be responsible for attracting candidates by participating in events and fairs, designing recruitment campaigns, and more. An important part of your work is also to actively work with search and candidate dialogue. You will drive your recruitment processes independently, from requirement profile to employment, ensuring that recruitment takes place in a competence-based, legally secure, and structured manner. You will work closely with our managers in Central Sweden, and business travel to various operational sites is a natural part of everyday life.

Together with the rest of the recruitment team, you will also be responsible for ensuring that the onboarding of new employees takes place in a professional and efficient manner. As a recruiter, you will primarily recruit IT personnel, but recruitment for other areas may occur. The role also includes supporting the HR department with other tasks within the HR area.

What We Offer

At the Swedish Armed Forces, there is a strong value base built on openness, results, and responsibility. The operations offer great variation and complexity, as well as high security requirements, which means good development opportunities and conditions for internal career mobility. Our employees have several different benefits, including:

• Competence development based on the organization's needs and your career goals
• Three hours of exercise per week during working hours, and you can receive compensation for exercise clothing and start fees
• Good balance between work and leisure with flexible working hours and 28-35 days of vacation depending on your age
• Salary supplement during parental leave and sick leave for children, as well as the opportunity to exchange vacation days for extra pension savings

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in HR/recruitment, or equivalent work experience assessed by the employer as equivalent.
• Several years of experience in competence-based recruitment.
• Current and relevant work experience from, or knowledge of, the IT industry.
• Good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish and good understanding of English.
• Valid driver's license (Category B).

Meritorious Qualifications

• Experience of recruitment within a government agency.
• Experience in driving many complex recruitment processes in parallel.
• Experience working with attraction/employer branding, for example through campaigns, events, etc.
• Experience with onboarding/introduction of new employees.

Personal Attributes

We are looking for you who find it easy to build trusting relationships, both internally and externally. You are receptive and flexible, which makes it easy for you to adapt to changed circumstances. You organize and plan your work well and prioritize activities in an efficient manner. As a recruiter, you set high goals for yourself and work for quality in every recruitment. You take responsibility for your tasks and drive your processes forward, even in challenging circumstances.

Other Information

The position is a permanent full-time civil appointment with placement in Stockholm or Örebro.

The Swedish Armed Forces apply a 6-month probationary period for those who have not previously been employed by the Swedish Armed Forces.

Business travel is common and is a natural part of the work.

Start date: ASAP or as agreed.

Application

Apply no later than 2026-08-16. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter where you explain why you are suitable for this position. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, contact HR Generalist Julia Arvidsson at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). Selection will begin after the final application date.

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Swedish Armed Forces' website.

Information about the Swedish Armed Forces and the recruiting unit:

The Swedish Armed Forces Telecommunications and Information Systems Unit (FMTIS) ensures the Swedish Armed Forces' ability to communicate and command - 24/7, year-round. The unit has overall responsibility for the Swedish Armed Forces' technical command system, which supports military operations at sea, on land, and in the air – in Sweden and abroad. The unit has nearly 2,000 employees at more than 32 locations around the country. Read more at jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis (https://jobb.forsvarsmakten.se/fmtis).

Employment with us involves placement in a security class. Swedish citizenship is usually required. Security clearance with register check will be conducted prior to employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. Employment entails an obligation to be war-placed and to serve abroad. The meaning of this varies depending on the type of position.

A CV and cover letter must be attached to the application for employment. If you proceed in the employment process, certified copies of diplomas and certificates must always be presented. Calls from external recruitment agencies and salespeople are declined.