Digitaliseringsmyndigheten Seeks CIO/Division Head for IT

Technology doesn't create change on its own. People who use it the right way do. Now we're building Sweden's new Digital Agency and we're looking for you to lead the digital transformation from the start. As CIO/Division Head for IT, you'll create the digital capability that strengthens the entire agency—today and in the future. We work with what everyone takes for granted. The ability to communicate. With us, you'll ensure it works now and in the future. For everyone. About the Role As CIO/Division Head for IT, you'll be part of the leadership team for the new Digital Agency and have the opportunity to shape both the agency, its culture, and its ways of working from the beginning. The Digital Agency is being formed by merging the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) and the Swedish Agency for Digital Government (Digg) into a single organization. The goal is to strengthen Sweden's capacity in digitalization, digital infrastructure, security, and preparedness. As CIO/Division Head for IT, you're responsible for developing and ensuring the entire agency's IT delivery so it supports the organization's goals and needs. You lead the agency's strategic IT governance and create a unified direction for how IT, technology, and digitalization should contribute to operational development, efficiency, and long-term capability. The division has both responsibility for delivering the agency's public services and internal IT support. Your area of responsibility includes the agency's IT capability, digitalization, IT security, and technical development as well as digital workplace, architecture, development, management, and operations. The task involves both stable and secure delivery as well as developing the agency's future digital capability. A central part of your assignment is to balance development and innovation with requirements for robustness, IT and cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and cost efficiency. The division also has an important responsibility for translating the organization's needs into sustainable digital solutions through governance, architecture, and unified delivery. As CIO, you have an agency-wide perspective and work closely with other parts of the organization to translate needs and strategic goals into priorities and strategic and technical decisions. You need to see both today's needs and tomorrow's opportunities and create conditions for new technology, data, and AI to be used where they provide concrete operational value. The division is responsible for, among other things, creating the conditions for a data-driven organization, exploring new technology, and identifying, developing, and implementing AI solutions. You lead through other managers and are responsible for operations, budget, work environment, and results within the division. As a member of the agency's leadership team, you're also responsible for the agency as a whole and work together with the Director General and other division heads to provide common direction, prioritizations, and the agency's long-term development. This role is right for you if you're motivated by combining strategic leadership with development and delivery and want to build a modern, robust, and operationally driven IT capability in a new agency. About You To succeed in this role, you build trust through dialogue and collaboration and work unpretentiously across organizational boundaries. You actively contribute to the agency's overall goals and create good conditions for collaboration, both within and outside your own division. You have a strategic perspective and the ability to see wholes, long-term consequences, and connections. You translate political direction, the agency's goals, and strategic priorities into clear direction, prioritizations, and decisions within your area of responsibility. As a leader, you're confident and stable and act with good judgment even when conditions are complex, changing, or pressured. You create clarity, direction, and calm during change. At the same time, you're action-oriented and take responsibility for driving work forward. You translate decisions and strategies into action and create results and sustainable development through others. We place great importance on your personal qualities and your leadership. We're looking for you who have: Academic degree relevant to the assignment or other experience that the employer deems equivalent. Several years of experience with strategic management in large and complex operations. Experience leading and creating results through other managers. Experience with personnel responsibility, budget work, and operational planning. Experience leading larger IT operations. Experience with strategic IT governance at the organization-wide level. Experience leading transformation and operational development through digitalization and modern technology. Good ability to express yourself well in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing. It's a merit if you have: Experience working in agency leadership or other strategic management functions. Experience from state operations or other politically controlled organization. Documented knowledge of how data and AI can be used to streamline operations and drive change. Experience with IT security work. Experience leading in crisis, incident, or other event-driven operations. Experience with cross-functional work and creating results in complex organizations. Experience with external collaboration and representing the organization at a strategic level. Experience with international work or international collaborations. Good to Know The position is a permanent employment with an initial six-month probationary period. Placement in Stockholm with start as soon as possible according to agreement. Your job title will be Division Head. The position is classified as a security position. Swedish citizenship is therefore required for employment. To ensure we make a fair and objective assessment of your qualifications, we ask you not to include a photo, personal ID number, or address in your CV. We've chosen not to request a cover letter; instead, we use selection questions. This allows us to focus on your experience and qualifications, which contributes to a more efficient and fair recruitment process. Tests will be part of the process. If you have protected information, please contact our HR specialist. For questions about the role and assignment, please contact Acting HR Director Linn Arnewing at [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, contact HR Specialist Lotta Kantsjö at [email protected]. For questions related to our local trade union organizations, please email [email protected] or [email protected] Welcome to submit your application by September 15.

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