Association Development Manager

Description:

Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Do you want to strengthen Vallentuna's association life and create favorable conditions for engagement and development? The Department of Culture and Recreation is now seeking an association development manager who wants to be a driving force in supporting, developing, and collaborating with the municipality's associations. Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead. Our ambition is to be at the forefront when it comes to innovative solutions, smart working methods, and an efficient organization. As an employee, you play an important role in development work. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by a mutual understanding between politics and operations, where shared interest and responsibility for Vallentuna's best shines through. Conduct, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work for good results and improved quality. Commitment, collaboration, and equal value for all should permeate our organization. You should naturally share our common values. About the Operations: The Department of Culture and Recreation operates, supports, and develops activities that provide all residents with opportunities for an active and meaningful leisure time. This includes sports facilities and trails, libraries and cultural activities, youth and active recreation, senior activities and support for associations, as well as initiatives for outdoor activities and public health with a focus on physical activity. As an association development manager, you are an important part of the management staff, a shared resource and support for the entire department in the overarching strategic mission to develop the culture and recreation sector in Vallentuna Municipality. Work Tasks: As an association development manager, you have a key role in developing cooperation between the municipality and the association sector. You work both operatively and strategically to improve working methods, strengthen dialogue, and provide support to associations within culture, sports, and outdoor activities, as well as other associations within the culture and recreation sector. You participate in and drive development processes within the association area. This could include, for example, developing the work with facility booking and how the municipality's sports facilities, cultural venues, and other relevant facilities are used in an efficient and appropriate manner. It could also involve handling and developing forms of association support, strengthening dialogue with associations, or contributing to new working methods and solutions based on the associations' needs. In this role, you plan and lead dialogues with associations and other actors, identify needs and perspectives, and translate them into concrete improvements. You participate in and lead projects and collaboration initiatives within the association area, with special focus on culture, outdoor, and sports associations, as well as other associations within the culture and recreation sector. You are also an important link between the association sector and the municipality. Through ongoing dialogue, you contribute to long-term relationships and to creating favorable conditions for a strong, inclusive, and sustainable association life in Vallentuna. The assignment also includes working in and being a system administrator for the municipality's booking and grant systems, as well as contributing to the development of the system. Qualifications: We are looking for you who: - Have relevant education or equivalent experience that the employer deems equivalent. - Have experience in collaboration with different actors. - Have good IT skills and experience working in different systems. - Have experience leading dialogues, processes, or development work. - Have education or equivalent experience that the employer deems relevant for the role. - Have good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing. It is meritorious if you: - Have experience working in a politically governed organization. - Have worked with association development, facility booking, or association support. - Have experience working within the culture, sports, or outdoor sector. - Have experience with Power BI or similar tools for reporting and analysis. Personal Qualities: You work toward results, demonstrate reliability, and take responsibility for planning and follow-up of your work. You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information. You develop, improve, seek solutions, learning, and knowledge on your own initiative. You are the link, provide service, show loyalty outward and inward, and monitor the external environment. Common values are visible in your conduct. You are responsive to the associations' needs and have a clear development focus. You are structured and have the ability to drive processes forward, from idea to implementation. We place great importance on personal suitability. Information: As an employer, we want to benefit from the qualities that equal gender distribution and cultural diversity bring. Vallentuna Municipality invests in skills development and a sustainable working life. To provide the best possible conditions in your employee role, Vallentuna Municipality has an employee academy where you will receive training and tools. The employment is a permanent full-time position starting October 1 or by agreement. We apply individual salary setting. Before all new hires, Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks. To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we use the ReachMee tool. We ask you to submit your application by clicking the application link in the ad. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact the person indicated in the ad. You are warmly welcome to send your application with a personal letter and CV by August 10 at the latest. For more information, contact: Birgitta Wahlberg, Head of Staff, Department of Culture and Recreation, 08-587 848 92, [email protected] More information and union representatives can be found at https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/

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job

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active

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public

City

För Vallentuna Kommun är detta ej alktuellt

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[email protected]

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Published

11. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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