Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!
The Department of Overarching Planning is part of Gävle Municipality and works with strategic development and planning to make Gävle an attractive place for residents and businesses. We focus on sustainability, long-term thinking, and close collaboration within the municipality. The Department consists of two units: Strategic Urban Planning and the Environmental Strategy Unit.
This position is located in the Environmental Strategy Unit, led by a unit manager who will also be your direct supervisor. The unit currently has 9 employees with various specializations.
The workplace for this position is located in newly renovated premises in the City Hall, just a short walk from Gävle Central Station and bus connections. There is an opportunity to work from home part of the time by agreement with your manager.
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DUTIES
We are now seeking an engaged and driven sub-project manager who wants to take a key role in Gävle's climate transition. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference by mobilizing the power of citizens, civil society organizations, and communities.
Together with businesses, the public sector, and academia, we are developing the Gävle Climate Agreement, one of Sweden's most ambitious local climate collaborations with the goal of achieving a climate-neutral and competitive Gävle by 2030.
About the Role
Gävle Municipality is driving ambitious climate work based on established goals. To reach the finish line, we need to strengthen engagement among citizens and civil society.
As a project manager, you will lead the launch of a new and strategically important focus area within the Gävle Climate Agreement focused on citizens' transition. This is a developmental role where you combine strategy, innovation, and practical implementation.
You will build relationships, initiate collaborations, and drive processes together with the non-profit sector and other actors, thereby helping to create entirely new pathways to reach climate goals.
As part of the Gävle Climate Agreement office, your primary task will be to lead and develop a new focus area focused on civil society and citizens' climate transition. You will also contribute to the Gävle Climate Agreement's overall work. The work includes, for example:
• participating in the planning and implementation of working group activities and meetings
• planning, developing, and conducting collaboration and dialogue processes
• monitoring external dialogue and collaboration processes within the climate field
• developing project ideas
• reporting and follow-up
• participating in project meetings and certain activities and events.
This position is a project employment of 14 months from the start date.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who wants to contribute to climate transition by creating engagement, building relationships, and driving development together with others. You thrive in a role where collaboration is central and where you can combine structure and planning with innovative thinking and initiative.
For this position, you must have:
• higher education or university degree in environment or urban planning, or alternatively another degree combined with experience that the employer deems equivalent
• experience working in projects
• excellent knowledge of Swedish, spoken and written
• good knowledge of English, spoken and written
It is a merit for this position if you have:
• experience working on and reporting EU projects
• experience with collaboration projects involving multiple stakeholders
• documented experience or knowledge within environmental or climate work
• experience with external communication.
Your personal qualities are important for you to thrive and succeed in this role. You are:
• relationship-oriented and have an easy time building and maintaining good relationships and networks both internally and externally. You enjoy collaborating and creating engagement around common goals
• organized and have the ability to plan, organize, and follow up on multiple activities, collaboration processes, and communication initiatives in parallel
• confident and take initiative. You handle unclear situations, see opportunities in change, and adapt to different conditions
• communicative and can adjust your message and content to different target audiences, contexts, and communication channels.
We warmly welcome your application!
Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: 2026-08-31 Start date by agreement, ends: 2027-10-27.
Working Hours: Daytime.
We Offer You
You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have
• generous vacation benefits and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation already in your first year of employment
• compensation for wellness and exercise benefits when employed for more than three months
• several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and work injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner
Our Values
Quality, respect, and collaboration are the most important success factors for fulfilling our mission in the best way possible. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base our actions on our jointly expressed values.
Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs
Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/organisation
Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore, in addition to our other competency requirements, also speak Finnish, it can be a merit.
Information to recruitment consultants and advertising sales: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!
The Department of Overarching Planning is part of Gävle Municipality and works with strategic development and planning to make Gävle an attractive place for residents and businesses. We focus on sustainability, long-term thinking, and close collaboration within the municipality. The Department…