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Do you want to work with investments that make a real difference in Northern Sweden? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

At Tillväxtverket (the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth), we work for competitive businesses and sustainable development in all parts of Sweden. We offer knowledge, networks, and opportunities for investment. This provides direct benefits to companies, as well as prerequisites for companies, municipalities, and regions to meet future challenges. Tillväxtverket is a national authority with a regional presence in nine locations.

You will belong to the unit Regional Development Northern Sweden, part of the Department of EU Investments and National Support at Tillväxtverket. We are a dedicated group of project advisors and a few program managers driving the work with the EU Regional Fund program in Northern Sweden. We work in a data-driven manner, with great responsibility and close collaboration with both local and national actors.

Your workplace is in Luleå. You will work on issues primarily concerning Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Jämtland, and Västernorrland. Travel is included in the position.

About the position

As a project advisor within the EU Regional Fund, you help decide how public funds are invested – in innovation, green transition, digitalization, and stronger businesses. You will have a varied and analytical role where you follow projects from idea to result. At the same time, you build knowledge about the regions' needs and work with assessments that require good ability to interpret legal frameworks, analyze economic materials, and contribute to smart, sustainable solutions. You participate in Tillväxtverket's efforts for strengthened regional competitiveness and sustainable development.

The role includes work with information, mobilization, counseling, follow-up, result dissemination, and result communication, as well as processing project applications within the regional structural fund programs.

We offer a modern and flexible work environment with a balance between remote work and collaboration in the office.

Your workplace is: Luleå

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree from a university or college within social sciences/economics/law or another area that Tillväxtverket considers relevant for the position
• Experience of working with case processing within the public sector or the EU's structural fund programs. Alternatively, experience of working with regional development.
• Established networks and/or good knowledge of the area's regional development organizations and growth-promoting actors
• Experience of working with economic and legal materials
• Very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish, with a focus on making complex information accessible

The following are meritorious:

• Experience with Nyps2020 (case management system)
• Experience of working with issues within the regional innovation or business promotion system
• Experience of working with green transition (environmental and climate issues)
• Good knowledge of state aid rules
• Good knowledge of renewable energy, smart energy systems, and circular economy
• Longer work experience with a focus on the EU's structural fund programs or regional development work in any of the four northernmost counties
• Driver's license B

As a person we are looking for someone who is structured, result-oriented, independent, communicative, and service-oriented.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

We expect you to live up to our employee and manager policy which expresses the expectations we have on all employees.

We assume that you share our value base, which is the public sector value base. It unites all who are state employees, regardless of activity and profession. The value base aims to create an administration that is efficient, legally secure, and free from corruption and abuse of power.

Employment type and last application date

The employment is a permanent position.

Last application date is August 16, 2026

More information and contact

For more information about the tasks, you are welcome to contact acting unit manager Henrik Berven, phone 08-681 66 70 until and including August 11, thereafter recruiting manager John Wallon, phone 08-681 65 41. Questions about the recruitment process are answered by HR specialist Gunilla Perméus, phone 08-681 91 48.

Union representatives

ST: Contact person Robert Berggren, e-mail [email protected]

Saco: Contact person Susanna Lindbom, e-mail [email protected]

Both can be reached by phone via switchboard number 08-681 91 00

We work on a competence-based basis and the recruitment process will include selection questions, possible tests, interviews, and reference checks. In order for you to receive as fair and correct an assessment as possible, it is very important that you state the year and month for each employment as well as a short description of the tasks in your CV.

If you have protected personal data, we ask you to contact the HR partner in this recruitment.

We are centrally located in modern premises where you choose your place of work daily based on your tasks. Tillväxtverket strives for a way of working where digital and technical solutions facilitate daily work.

Tillväxtverket wants to utilize the qualities that an even gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the operations. We strive for a work environment where every employee is given the opportunity to combine professional and private life for balance in life.

Welcome with your application to create your and Sweden's future!

In this recruitment, Tillväxtverket has already taken a stand on desirable recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore politely but firmly decline calls from advertising agencies or salespeople.