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About the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården)

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is growing – we are building new facilities, renovating, and expanding, and are now looking for more employees. Our most important goal is to reduce recidivism – to break the vicious cycle. If we succeed, society will become safer and more secure for everyone. We are the agency responsible for prisons, probation services, remand centers, and prisoner transport.

The Finance Department is a national department at the headquarters of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and has the overarching responsibility for the agency's finances as well as procurement and purchasing activities.

The department also has operational responsibility for the asset management object 'Finance, Property, and Procurement'. The assignment includes monitoring and analyzing trends and events in the external environment and acting to further develop systems, structures, and working methods based on these. This includes continuously improving and developing operations with the support of digitalization.

Job Description

As Asset Manager for Finance, Property, and Procurement, you are responsible for leading and developing the asset management object. Together with the IT Asset Manager, you lead the object's digital development and ensure that the organization's needs are translated into efficient, user-friendly, and sustainable digital solutions.

The assignment includes defining the objectives for the object. This also involves coordinating the organization's needs, prioritizing development initiatives, budgeting, and ensuring that the object's resources are used in the best possible way to create operational value.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has the ability to take significant personal responsibility, create collaboration, build relationships, and drive change in a complex organization. You are also quality-conscious and value clear processes.

We are looking for you who have:

• Post-secondary education, with a focus on finance, procurement, law, or other education combined with experience that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service deems relevant
• Experience in working with digitalizing operational processes
• Experience in leading and driving complex assignments with good results
• Experience in working in project form
• Experience in change management
• Experience in process management
• Very good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish
• Knowledge of information security

The following are also meritorious:

• University education in finance, law, or engineering subjects, or other education combined with experience that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service deems relevant
• Experience in working and procurement within public operations
• Experience in working according to an established asset management model
• Experience in cross-functional agile work
• Knowledge of PPS (Public Procurement Act)
• Knowledge of information security

Other Information

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has chosen to remove the personal cover letter and replaced it with selection questions relevant to the position. The answers to the selection questions and the CV form the basis for whether you are qualified to proceed in the process.

To be considered for employment within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, you must meet high demands regarding suitability, judgment, security and confidentiality awareness, and that you follow applicable laws. This means that you stand up for democratic values and the state values that apply to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's operations.

Certain positions are placed in security classes, and a security investigation with register check will be conducted before a decision on employment is made. For some security-classified positions, Swedish citizenship is required. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Read more about security investigation here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/ (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/sakerhetsprovning-vid-rekrytering/)

The position may involve wartime assignment at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Read more about wartime assignment here: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/ (https://www.kriminalvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/rekryteringsprocessen/krigsplacering/)

Individual salary setting applies.

Probationary employment may be applied.

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service strives for an even gender distribution and increased diversity.

To submit your application, click the application link in the advertisement. Questions about how to apply and upload your CV should be directed to Varbi. Questions about specific jobs are answered by the contact person specified in the advertisement.

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of recruitment advertisements. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has procured agreements.