Municipal Director, Årjäng Municipality

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Do you want to lead a municipality where decisions make a real difference? Being a municipal director is one of the most important leadership positions that exists. In Årjäng, you have the opportunity to lead an organization with engaged employees, a strong business community, and great opportunities to influence the municipality's future. Here you'll find proximity to both people and decision-making, a strategic location near Norway, and a clear commitment to continued development. Now we are looking for you to help shape the next chapter in Årjäng Municipality's development. Your Assignment As municipal director, you are the municipality's highest-ranking official and are responsible for translating political will into concrete operations and long-term results. You lead the municipality's management group, develop the organization, and ensure that the municipality continues to deliver welfare of high quality and sound financial management. You become an important link between politics and organization and represent the municipality in dialogue with residents, business community, authorities, and regional cooperation partners. The assignment includes, among other things: lead and develop the municipality's operations through managers continue to create favorable conditions for cooperation between politics and organization ensure a long-term sustainable economy drive development and change with clear anchoring strengthen the municipality's attractiveness and growth develop cooperation with business, region, and other actors assume responsibility for the municipality's preparedness and security work. We are looking for a leader who Is a confident leader who builds trust through clarity, presence, and genuine interest in people. You combine strategic thinking with the ability to translate ideas into results, see the big picture, build relationships, and get people to work toward common goals. You are accustomed to making decisions, creating structure, and leading in times of change while remaining unpretentious and receptive. It is important that you as a person build trust between people and organizations are communicative and pedagogical lead with commitment and integrity are analytical and have strong strategic ability are courageous when decisions need to be made have a strong commitment to society. We know that you need multiple years of experience in qualified leadership experience leading other managers documented experience in operations and financial management experience in change management very strong communication skills great commitment to serve the municipality you lead It is meritorious if you have: experience from municipal operations worked in a politically governed organization relevant academic education experience in municipal group management experience with cooperation between business and regional actors experience in crisis management and security work An assignment with great trust As municipal director, you have a central role in the municipality's management and responsibility for matters concerning vital societal operations, security, and preparedness. Therefore, the position is classified as security-sensitive. A security clearance with criminal record check will be conducted before employment in accordance with the Security Protection Act. Swedish citizenship is a requirement for the position. Why Årjäng Årjäng is a municipality with short decision-making processes, great commitment, and high ambitions. Here you'll find an expansive business community, an attractive geographic location, and a strong will to develop together. We believe that the best results are created by a municipal director who wants to be part of the local context. Regardless of whether you already have a connection to Årjäng or are coming from elsewhere, we would like to see that you want to build long-term relationships and create strong roots in the municipality. We are facing important future challenges within skills supply, growth, digitalization, economy, and societal security. For the right leader, this is an opportunity to make a real difference—both for the organization and for the people who live and work here. About the Recruitment Process In this recruitment, we are collaborating with Tacting, where all recruitment consultants are certified according to DNV standards and work with unbiased recruitment. With the help of capacity tests and personal profile analyses, Tacting conducts an objective assessment of how you might handle your new tasks with us while minimizing the risk of discrimination and unfair treatment. If you have questions, you are welcome to contact Bengt Libäck at 070 594 72 77, [email protected] or Ulf Holmgren at 076 307 10 29, [email protected]. We welcome your application by August 18 at the latest.Do you want to lead a municipality where decisions make a real difference? Being a municipal director is one of the most important leadership positions that exists. In Årjäng, you have the opportunity to lead an organization with engaged employees, a strong business community, and great opportunities to influence the municipality's future. Here you'll find proximity to both people and decision-making, a strategic location near Norway, and a clear commitment to continued development. Now we are looking for you to help shape the next chapter in Årjäng Municipality's development. Your…

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Årjäng

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Storgatan 66

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59.393251032997, 12.134069110653copyopen in

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Published

1. 7. 2026

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28. 7. 2026

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