IT Strategy Lead at Södermalm District Administration

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we're looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for Stockholm's residents. Södermalm District Administration is one of the city's largest and is responsible for a significant portion of municipal services within the district, such as preschool, social services, elderly care, and urban development. Over 130,000 residents live and work here in neighborhoods like Södermalm, Hammarby Sjöstad, and Gamla stan. We work closely with residents, businesses, and other stakeholders to create a safe, vibrant, and sustainable district. Do you want to help contribute to sustainable, operationally-focused digital development on Södermalm? Welcome to us You'll join an operation where IT and digitalization are central to the administration's development and support for its activities. The HR and IT unit works both strategically and operationally to create the best possible conditions for leadership, team engagement, and effective and accessible IT support. With us, you'll become part of an engaged and operationally-focused organization where collaboration, responsibility, and development are at the center. We work closely with operations and support the administration's various areas. The work is characterized by cooperation, a focus on development, and close support for managers and employees. About the team The IT function is a small and experienced team with broad expertise and diverse backgrounds in IT, coordination, and operational support. Work is conducted close to operations and in collaboration with other administrations and central functions across the city. The team consists of people with different experiences, competencies, and work styles, which requires strong collaboration skills and the ability to create structure and coherence. Your role The role involves coordinating responsibility for holding the team's work together, creating structure and clarifying priorities, without formal personnel responsibility. You'll contribute to developing work methods and handle both long-term development issues and operationally-focused IT support, such as client environments, telephony, user support, and coordinating the operation's IT needs. You'll report to the HR Manager and work closely with operational managers, coordinators, project managers, and central functions within Stockholm city. Your role includes, among other things: participating in and in some cases driving major IT projects within the administration and together with other city administrations leading and driving digital transformation projects formulating and following up requirements for procurements and management of contracts for digital systems and tools working with environmental monitoring in IT and digitalization developing the unit's strategies and contributing to the administration's strategic goals developing and improving work methods and strengthening collaboration internally and externally mapping local IT processes and proposing development initiatives implementing and further developing the IT governance model PM3 coordinating and leading the IT function's work and contributing to structure, prioritization, and a holistic perspective in the team serving as a link between operations, the city's central IT organization, and external partners Your competence and experience We're looking for someone who has: post-secondary education in IT, data/systems science, informatics, or other education and experience that the employer deems equivalent broad experience in the IT field experience leading or coordinating projects and/or development work experience as a project manager/coordinator/team leader experience with operationally-focused IT support and collaboration with multiple stakeholders experience with change management and digitalization experience working both strategically and operationally in parallel good organizational and analytical skills very good ability to express yourself clearly in Swedish, both orally and in writing Meritorious: experience with PM3 experience with Stockholm city's governance and organization knowledge of public procurement knowledge of data communications and networks knowledge of AI and new digital solutions knowledge of GDPR and information security experience from a municipal, regional, or other large organization with a complex IT environment Personal skills and competencies You are service-oriented, positive, and solution-focused, with the ability to support operations based on their needs. You have good holistic perspective and understand the interaction between IT, operations, and organization. You move between strategic and operational issues and prioritize based on the team's mandate and operational goals. You have very good collaboration skills and work closely with operations, other administrations, and central functions. You are receptive, unpretentious, and solution-oriented, and you build trusting relationships. You are structured and can plan, prioritize, and organize effectively. You bring clarity to complex situations and handle multiple tasks in parallel. You are stable and calm under pressure, maintain focus, and make well-considered prioritizations between strategic and operational needs. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. Your application We recruit without a personal letter. Instead, you'll answer a number of questions related to your experience and competence. Psychological work tests may be used. Stockholm city practices competency-based recruitment, which aims to recognize each person's competence and thus counteract discrimination. Welcome to Södermalm District Administration! Södermalm is a cultural and vibrant neighborhood in the inner city with engaged residents and a big heart. With us, you can really make a difference. Together with our Södermalm residents, we're developing an even better neighborhood to live, work, and reside in. As an employee with us, you have a secure employment with fair terms, where we believe that diversity and equal gender balance strengthen our operations. We like to think differently – we hope that you, as an applicant, want to develop Södermalm together with us! You can read more about Södermalm District Administration here, and you're also welcome to visit our Facebook page.

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