Emergency Preparedness Strategist for the Elderly Administration

Stockholms kommun · Full-time

Älvsjö stationsgata 21, Älvsjö, Sweden

Stockholm – our capital with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we're looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm. The Elderly Administration is responsible for city-wide matters concerning elderly care, and for coordinating, developing, and monitoring elderly care in the city in dialogue with the district committees. Welcome to us The Elderly Administration has approximately 180 employees and consists of four departments and one independent unit: Stockholm's Safety Hotline, the department for city-wide elderly care matters, the department for digitalization and IT, the administrative department, and the unit for communication, external relations, and emergency preparedness. We are responsible for, among other things, questions regarding regulatory authority, planning, monitoring, digitalization, health and medical care, and education. We are now seeking an experienced emergency preparedness strategist who wants to work in an organization with great opportunities to develop and strengthen elderly care's emergency preparedness. Here you will have the opportunity to work on strategically important emergency preparedness issues, while being part of a unit with close collaboration, workplace joy, and collegial learning. We warmly welcome your application! What we offer you an exciting, important, and developmental assignment that contributes to social benefit health and wellness allowance winter and summer working hours flexible working hours the opportunity for holiday exchange that can mean five or six additional vacation days the opportunity to work from home when work allows Your role As an emergency preparedness strategist, you will drive, develop, and implement solutions to strengthen elderly care's emergency preparedness. You will analyze and provide suggestions on how new legislation and new requirements can be converted into practically usable solutions for elderly care operations while also contributing to Stockholm's city's overall emergency preparedness capacity. You will work in close collaboration with district administrations, specialized departments, and the city management office. Together with the Elderly Administration's security coordinator, you will stay informed about emergency preparedness and security matters as well as civil defense issues to be able to advise management on these matters. Your work is largely strategic, but as part of the unit for communication, external relations, and emergency preparedness and the Elderly Administration's crisis organization, you need to be prepared for rapid adjustments and operational work. You will work with, among other things: Interpreting new legislation in the emergency preparedness field and how it affects especially elderly care and social services Converting new legislation and new requirements into practically feasible measures within elderly care and social services Planning and conducting exercises Project management and group leadership Participating in the Elderly Administration's crisis management (for example, as chief of staff) Together with, among others, the security coordinator at the Elderly Administration, conduct planning for crisis and heightened emergency preparedness Your competence and experience We are looking for you who have: Relevant education for the position from a university or college, for example in security, emergency preparedness, political science, or another area that the employer considers equivalent multiple years of experience working in a relevant role with a focus on emergency preparedness and crisis management, for example as an investigator, strategist, or emergency preparedness coordinator very good ability to communicate both orally and in writing We consider it meritorious if you have: experience working with emergency preparedness and/or civil defense matters within municipal operations or government agencies good knowledge of current and upcoming legislation in the emergency preparedness field affecting municipalities, including the Act on Civil Protection, the Act on Crisis Preparedness and Civil Protection, and the Act on Total Defense and Heightened Preparedness We will place great emphasis on personal qualities, suitability, commitment, and motivation for the position. The following qualities form the basis for our competence-based recruitment process: As an emergency preparedness strategist with us, you need to be committed, development-oriented, and persistent, with a good ability to drive issues in the long term. Change and development can take time, which requires patience, perseverance, and the ability to hold fast to the long-term direction even when the process is complex. You have good communication and relationship-building abilities and build trust and collaboration with various actors, both internally and externally. At the same time, you have a strategic holistic perspective and can switch between long-term strategic work and more concrete operational needs. You see opportunities for development and have the ability to convert strategies and goals into practical action that strengthens elderly care's and the Elderly Administration's emergency preparedness. Other information The recruitment process may include work psychological testing. References and background checks on the final candidate will be conducted. We recruit without a personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only base our evaluation on your CV and a number of questions you will answer when you apply for the position. We wish for you to answer concretely and concisely on the questions, and that there is a clear connection between your answers and your CV. We warmly welcome your application! Stockholm City works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thereby counteracting discrimination.