Unit Manager of Meeting Places and Youth

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop in your role and grow as a person. We welcome your application! The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more vibrant. Every day we provide people with experiences while we build, develop, and shape today's and tomorrow's society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the daily lives of Gävle residents. We offer you meaningful, stimulating, and developmental work. The Unit for Meeting Places and Youth consists of two different parts. One is the Kulturskolan (Culture School) in Gävle, which is a unique meeting place for music and theater, visual arts and media, circus and dance for children and young people up to 20 years old. Kulturskolan has age-divided groups in visual arts, circus, dance, film, photography, choir singing, theater, as well as several orchestras and ensembles each week. The other part is a group that manages school holiday activities and youth recreation centers. 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Do you want to lead the Unit for Meeting Places and Youth? Does it also sound appealing to lead other managers? Then you could be the Unit Manager we're looking for. The assignment involves leading and developing the Unit for Meeting Places and Youth with a focus on meaningful leisure time for children and young people. The unit includes the Culture School, school holiday activities, and responsibility for the municipality's association-run youth recreation centers, as well as the municipality's sober school leaving event "Proud and Sober." Your Role As unit manager, you lead the operations together with an assistant manager and coordinator. You contribute to a good work environment and develop the unit's work by trustfully directing and leading your employees toward good results in your shared daily work. In your role, you have overall responsibility for leading and developing the unit's work. You shall plan, drive, follow up, and develop your area of operations based on goal and results-oriented thinking, with children and young people as your focus. Some of Your Work Tasks Collaboration both internally and externally is an important part, and through clear and communicative leadership, you create good conditions for the operations to develop. With environmental awareness and innovative thinking, you become an important part in the development of the entire department. • You will have direct personnel responsibility for part of the Culture School's staff as well as the assistant unit manager and coordinator. • You report to the operations manager and are part of the culture department's management group together with other unit managers and operations managers. • You are expected to drive development work in collaboration with colleagues, elected representatives, and civil society. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with higher education of at least 180 credits in a field relevant to the position, where the employer determines the relevance of the education. You also have professional experience as a manager/leader and with budget and personnel matters. It is important that you have professional experience in the Culture sector and experience working with larger personnel groups. Meritorious • Leadership training • Experience in a politically governed organization You as a Person • Give confidence and build trust, and have the ability to spread calm and stability. • Have an unpretentious approach in your collaboration with colleagues, citizens, and stakeholders. • Based on an understanding of the bigger picture, you have the ability to set direction for the operations and clarify the goals and why they are important. • Delegate, provide room for action, and encourage individual development to create motivation. • Support employees through present-minded leadership. • Communicate clearly and explain the background to decisions, and build arguments with facts. • Converse and act in a confidence-inspiring manner in different contexts and are good at creating open dialogue. • Give, seek, and accept constructive feedback. • Dare to try new working methods that develop the operations and can handle unclear situations, see possibilities and solutions. • Ability to lead in change. • Identify and develop boundary-crossing visions and plans. • Take into account multiple issues that span and relate to the entire organization. • Have the ability to create results through subordinate managers that are based on shared ownership. Employment Form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-12-01. What We Offer You You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have • generous vacation terms, 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 when employed for more than three months • several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included. Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner Our Values Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for completing our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values. Read more about us as an employer and what it's 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, in addition to our other competence requirements, also speak Finnish, that could be a merit. Information to recruitment consultants and ad sellers: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.

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