Department Head for Administration and Public Guardianship Unit at Söderhamns Municipality

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Do you want to combine strategic responsibility with operational leadership in two central operations? Description The Governance and Support Sector coordinates work between Söderhamns Municipality's four sectors and is responsible for strategic development at the overall level. We work closely with political decisions, with specialist expertise and service for citizens and our colleagues. Your Assignment In this management role, you are responsible for two central areas within the Governance and Support Sector – the Administration Unit and the Public Guardianship Unit. As head of the Administration Unit, you are responsible for operations within records management, archives, legal affairs, board secretariat, and the political case management process. You lead the work with preparations for the municipal board, municipal council, and support to the service organization. The administration office works closely with citizens, elected officials, and other operations. An important part of the assignment is to lead and coordinate election work before and during elections, where the administration office functions as the election administration office on behalf of the election board. You are also head of the Public Guardianship Unit with two employees who work on behalf of the public guardianship board. The unit is responsible for matters concerning guardianship, trusteeship, and custodianship. You have responsibility for work environment, budget, and personnel for the units and lead the daily work together with competent employees. In the role, you work closely with the HR Manager/Deputy Municipal Director, who is your immediate superior. You contribute to good cooperation and a strong sense of unity where the municipality's core values – citizen focus, engagement, and trust – permeate the work. Your Competence As a person, your strengths should be organizing based on order and structure, along with high service awareness and sense of responsibility. You can create conditions for positive engagement and co-creation among employees within all areas of the unit, allowing them to take responsibility and giving them the mandate to succeed. You are flexible and unpretentious, want to work operatively, and have close collaboration with your employees. You enjoy change and appreciate variety and challenges in your work. You have relevant academic education in the field, such as political science or law, or alternatively other education or experience that the employer considers equivalent. You have several years of management experience. You should have good knowledge of the service's areas of responsibility and solid knowledge of and experience working in a politically governed organization. Since large parts of the operations are law-governed, you need to understand the political board's goals and assignments and have the drive to transform them into activities within the unit's assignment. You will be an important part of creating conditions for development and quality assurance of the political case management process. You need to have very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written. The position may require the candidate to undergo a security clearance. We Offer Your well-being is important to us! Söderhamns Municipality actively works with health, wellness, and work environment. We have health ambassadors and you have wellness benefits. For us, it is also important that there is a balance between work and leisure, and we care about our employees getting the recovery they need. Read more about some of our benefits: Benefits and Advantages - Söderhamns Municipality (soderhamn.se) In the archipelago municipality of Söderhamn - where Hälsingland meets the sea, we think big and innovatively. We have the ambition to grow to 28,000 inhabitants and every day we start from the people of Söderhamn and their needs when we shape and develop our operations. Together we make a difference for individuals and society. We use competence-based recruitment to create an inclusive and fair process. This means that we assess candidates based on their competence, experience, and abilities in an equal and equitable manner. Our goal is objective recruitment where everyone has the same opportunity to show what they can contribute. In this recruitment, we have already made our choices of advertising channels and collaboration partners. We politely but firmly decline all forms of assistance with recruitment from external parties.Do you want to combine strategic responsibility with operational leadership in two central operations? Description The Governance and Support Sector coordinates work between Söderhamns Municipality's four sectors and is responsible for strategic development at the overall level. We work closely with political decisions, with specialist expertise and service for citizens and our colleagues. Your Assignment In this management role, you are responsible for two central areas within the Governance and Support Sector – the Administration Unit and the Public Guardianship Unit. As head of the…

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City

Söderhamn

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Söderhamns kommun

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61.3057323, 17.0412717copyopen in

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Published

26. 6. 2026

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1. 8. 2026

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