Qualified Emergency Management Coordinator

Länsstyrelsen i Skåne län · Full-time

Skeppsbrokajen 4, Karlskrona, Sweden

The County Administrative Board of Skåne is a state authority at the regional level responsible for state administration in the county. We work to ensure that national goals are implemented in the county based on regional conditions. Within our assignments, we work with advisory services, permits and supervision, plans and strategies. We manage natural areas and distribute financial support. We collaborate with stakeholders throughout the county. We have approximately 600 employees and offices in Malmö and Kristianstad. Description The Government has decided that Sweden shall be divided into six larger geographical areas for civil leadership and coordination, civil areas. In six counties, there are county administrative boards responsible for civil areas. The Governor in these counties is the civil area manager for their respective civil area. The County Administrative Board of Skåne is the responsible county administrative board with the assignment to lead and coordinate the southern civil area consisting of Skåne, Kronoberg, and Blekinge counties. Each county will continue to have responsibility for planning within the county. The Governor of Skåne County, in the capacity of civil area manager, shall lead the civil area's work and has an emergency management office based in Malmö to support this work. The Civil Area Office is seeking a qualified emergency management coordinator. The employment is permanent with a six-month probationary period. Start date as soon as possible by agreement. Your placement will be in Malmö, Karlskrona, or Växjö with some possibility to work remotely from home. Travel is part of the position. We are looking for someone with a strong interest in societal development who, with a holistic perspective and a solution-focused approach, can contribute to developing total defense in the southern civil area. Responsibilities The Civil Area Office's assignments include case handling, project management, planning, exercise activities, collaboration, and preparations for and during heightened readiness within the civil area. This position is primarily focused on collaboration with the military defense and the Swedish Armed Forces. You will be part of a working group and collaborate with external stakeholders at both regional and national levels. In your role, you will have contact with the Swedish Armed Forces and the county administrative boards within the southern civil area, other county administrative boards, authorities, and actors within total defense. The civil area has an exciting role in developing society's readiness. As an employee with us, you have three roles: employee, colleague, and service provider. As an employee, you represent the authority; together with your colleagues, you contribute to the collective results; and as a service provider, you create societal value based on your expertise. Qualifications The County Administrative Board seeks to have employees with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and life experience. The interaction between employees' differences and similarities is one of the County Administrative Board's success factors. We are looking for someone who has an academic degree in the social sciences or other education in combination with experience that the employer considers equivalent. It is important that you have very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish and a good ability to express yourself in English. You have experience working digitally and in digital business programs, as well as good knowledge of the most common parts of the Office suite. Swedish citizenship is a requirement. It is advantageous if you have several years of experience with: defense or total defense planning in public administration or state-owned companies with related assignments work in an emergency management authority project management or leading processes analysis or investigation work case handling with consideration of public access and confidentiality collaboration and cooperation with various stakeholders in society You take initiative and responsibility for activities and work in a structured manner by planning and implementing your work efficiently within set or self-determined timeframes. You are good at working together with others by relating to them in an attentive, unpretentious, and flexible way. You listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts constructively. You adapt easily to changing circumstances and can quickly change your perspective and approach. You easily see opportunities in changes. You also have an analytical ability that shows through your way of analyzing problems and conditions from different perspectives and offering solutions. We place great importance on personal suitability and consider it self-evident that you contribute to a good working environment. Security Clearance The County Administrative Board has an important coordinating role during societal disruptions and therefore we place high demands on our employees' security and confidentiality awareness. Some of our positions are security-classified and may also involve wartime placement at the authority, which means that security vetting must be conducted before an employment decision is made. In some cases, Swedish citizenship is required in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585). Other Information We ask that you apply for the position using the link in this advertisement to facilitate our handling of incoming applications and to ensure the quality of our selection process. Please note that your application becomes a public document. In our recruitment process, we have chosen to remove the personal letter and the possibility of attaching files. It is therefore of utmost importance that you are careful when filling out your application as it will be assessed against an established competency profile and against other applicants. Do you have protected personal information? Contact then the responsible HR specialist Jenny Thorssell Montant, 010-22 41 321 who will help you register your application. Please do not proceed with your application here. In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact from media sales, recruitment websites, and similar. 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