Recreation Leader

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural settings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only 20 minutes from Gothenburg and is currently facing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate. Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the large city municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas including schools, healthcare and care, finances, culture and recreation, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is truly a Super Municipality! Lerum Municipality, Sector Community Development and the Recreation Department, is now seeking a recreation leader for open youth activities. The Recreation Department is part of the Culture and Recreation business area, which also includes the Culture and Library Department and the Cultural School. Lerum Municipality has a rich and engaged recreation and association life, with a large proportion of children and young people in the population. We want to create good opportunities for active, developmental, and social recreation for the municipality's children and young people. Social sustainability, participation, and accessibility are important starting points in our work. The Recreation Department currently employs 11 recreation leaders working with open youth activities at three recreation centers in the municipality's urban areas, as well as with open activities for young adults. The department consists of a total of 23 employees and also includes janitorial and administrative responsibilities for facilities, hiking trails, swimming areas, association support, and association development. 1 position(s). JOB DUTIES As a recreation leader, you work with young people aged 12-20 and serve the entire Lerum Municipality. You approach youth recreation from a holistic perspective and work promotively and preventively. The role includes: • planning, implementing, and following up on activities and initiatives based on the department's goals and young people's needs, • building safe and trustful relationships with young people and creating conditions for participation and influence, • being responsive to young people's wishes and ideas and giving them the opportunity to influence the content of activities, • work in a coaching manner and be a safe and good role model, • collaborate with actors within and outside the municipality to develop preventive and promotional work, • work for integration, diversity, and equal value for all. The work involves meeting the target group at different times, both during daytime and evenings and weekends. Your main placement is in Floda, with the Floda recreation center as your base. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have: • recreation leader education or other post-secondary education in a relevant area, alternatively experience and knowledge that the employer deems equivalent, • experience working with children and young people, preferably within open youth activities or similar activities, • good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written, • a B-category driver's license. It is a merit if you have experience in: • support processes and project management, • other activities directed at the target group, • work in an organization affiliated with KEKS and knowledge of the cooperation model. To thrive and succeed in the role, we see that you are: • independent and driven - you take initiative and make decisions within your assignment, while maintaining good dialogue with colleagues, your manager, and young people, • engaged in the bigger picture - you understand the shared mission and actively contribute to the development of the activities, • relationship-building and outward-looking - you easily build trustful relationships and create networks, both internally and externally, • structured and responsible - you plan your work, follow up on your tasks, and ensure that you complete what you have started, • a good communicator - you express yourself clearly and professionally in both speech and writing. We are looking for you who want to help create a safe, meaningful, and developmental recreation for children and young people in Lerum Municipality. We welcome your application! Start date: As soon as possible or by agreement. Employment form: Fixed-term employment. Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: August 31, 2026, end date: June 1, 2027. Working hours: Schedule. Development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030. We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, activities, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and harassment. We value a good work environment where you can balance work and recreation. As an employee with us, you have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness allowance and employee care programs. Lerum Municipality is covered by the Master Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html and the collective agreement General Provisions AB https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting and the individual salary is influenced by both the difficulty level of the position and your competence and experience. In accordance with the Salary Transparency Directive, we have made salary statistics available on our website and you can find information about our collective agreement, our employee benefits, and the applicable salary range for the current position here: https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as information for you as a job seeker. As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system login or other verification. To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not by email or in paper format. Warm welcome with your application! Regarding this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted with further offers for competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

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