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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 (Enterprise and Innovation Agency), we work for competitive businesses and sustainable development throughout Sweden. We offer knowledge, networks, and opportunities for investment. This provides direct benefits to businesses, as well as prerequisites for businesses, 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 Division for EU Investments and National Support at Tillväxtverket. We are a dedicated group of project advisors and program managers driving the work with the EU Regional Development 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 placement is in Luleå. You will work on issues primarily concerning Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Jämtland, and Västernorrland. Travel is included in the role.

About the role

As a project advisor within the EU Regional Development 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 on assessments that require a good ability to interpret legal frameworks, analyze economic materials, and contribute to smart, sustainable solutions. You contribute to Tillväxtverket's efforts to strengthen regional competitiveness and sustainable development.

The role involves work with information, mobilization, advisory services, follow-up, result dissemination, and result communication, as well as processing project applications within the regional structural funds programs.

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

Your workplace is: Luleå or Östersund

We are looking for you who have:

• 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 in the public sector or the EU's structural funds 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 support 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 focused on the EU's structural funds programs or regional development work in any of the four northernmost counties.
• Class B driver's license.

As a person we are looking for you who are 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 of all employees.

We assume that you share our value base, which is the public sector value base. It unites all who are state-employed, 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 16 August 2026.

More information and contact

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

Trade union representatives

ST: Contact person Robert Berggren, email [email protected]

Saco: Contact person Susanna Lindbom, email [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 location 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 regarding desirable recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly but firmly decline calls from advertising agencies or sellers.