Solna Municipality is seeking an engaged and strategic department head who wants to contribute to developing our operations during a time of change, with a focus on quality and sustainable results.
About Us
The Care and Support Administration in Solna Municipality is responsible for planning, managing, and monitoring the municipality's care and support activities. This includes elderly care, support for persons with disabilities, municipal healthcare, and governmental authority. The administration ensures that residents receive high-quality services, that legislation is followed, and that operations develop based on needs, quality, and efficiency. The Care and Support Administration's budget totals 1.1 billion kronor, of which Humanities Care and Support accounts for 350 million kronor, corresponding to approximately 32 percent (2026).
Humanities Care and Support is the municipal provider in Solna Municipality and is responsible for elderly care, support for persons with disabilities, municipal healthcare, and preventive activities.
As the current department head is retiring, we are now seeking a department head for Humanities Care and Support. This is an assignment for you who wants to help shape the future of welfare during a time marked by change, with a focus on sustainability, collaboration, and strategic development.
Our Offer
We offer a strategically important and dynamic role where you get to help shape the future of care and support. You will become a key person in the Care and Support Administration and will be given significant scope to influence both direction and results.
With us you will get:
- A clear mandate to develop operations and help shape the future of welfare in a growing municipality.
- An assignment with strategic focus and real impact.
- The opportunity to develop modern working methods within Humanities Care and Support.
- Development opportunities working with engaged and professional colleagues in meaningful work.
What Does the Work Involve?
As a department head, you have overall responsibility for operations, budget, and personnel for Humanities Care and Support. You are responsible for leading, developing, and monitoring the organization and ensuring that goals and results are achieved. You ensure high quality in operations through continuous monitoring, analysis, and implementation of relevant measures. You lead through your area managers and contribute with modern, trust-based, and clear leadership throughout the organization. As a leader, you create conditions for your employees to succeed in their assignments. You have a good ability to create engagement and get managers and employees on board with change and development work.
It also involves monitoring external developments and translating relevant initiatives into concrete benefits for the organization. You need to understand how digitalization, welfare technology, and data-driven monitoring can contribute to operational development. Furthermore, you are expected to actively contribute to the administration's management group and influence the overall direction of operations.
Labor cooperation is a natural part of your leadership, where you work toward good dialogue and common solutions.
Who Are We Looking For?
We are seeking someone who is a confident and experienced leader with strategic ability and who thrives in a changing environment. You have experience in senior leadership roles in complex organizations where many perspectives must be balanced.
We see that you have:
- An academic degree, for example as a social worker, behavioral scientist, economist, or equivalent education.
- Several years of experience in a senior leadership position at a strategic level within care and support and in leading through managers.
- A good ability to drive and lead change work and development processes in complex operations.
- A good ability to conduct efficient operations with high quality and strong user focus.
- Good knowledge of systematic quality and monitoring work.
- Good knowledge of relevant legislation within care and support.
- Good understanding of how a politically governed organization functions.
It is a merit if you have experience leading large labor-intensive operations with responsibility for finance, operational development, and change work, as well as a good ability to create operations with high quality and efficient resource use.
As a person, you are a modern leader who creates engagement, clarity, and trust in the organization. You are strategic and analytical, with a good ability to see the whole picture and make well-considered priorities. You also have strong communication skills and are skilled at building relationships, while having a desire to be present and visible in operations.
More Information About the Application
The position is a permanent full-time employment with start date by agreement. If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Helena Åman, Administration Manager, [email protected]. We warmly welcome your application by August 16, 2026. In this recruitment, you apply without a personal letter. When you apply, you will answer questions relevant to the position.
NOTE! If you do not have a current extract from the criminal record register, we recommend that you order one as soon as possible as we need to see this before you can start your employment with us.
We will also conduct a background check as part of this recruitment.
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For union contact person for the position, see www.solna.se/jobba-hos-oss/fackliga-kontaktpersonerSolna Municipality is seeking an engaged and strategic department head who wants to contribute to developing our operations during a time of change, with a focus on quality and sustainable results.
About Us
The Care and Support Administration in Solna Municipality is responsible for planning, managing, and monitoring the municipality's care and support activities. This includes elderly care, support for persons with disabilities, municipal healthcare, and governmental authority. The administration ensures that residents receive high-quality services, that legislation is followed, and that…