Quality Strategist for Education Gävle

Do you want to be part of making Gävle even better with us? In Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to provide our residents with a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace of trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application! Do you want to work in a strategic role where your analyses and insights contribute to development and improved results for children, students, and learners? We are now seeking a Quality Strategist for Education Gävle. You will become part of a strategic support function that works across sectors on behalf of the sector manager and in close collaboration with operations managers, principals, board secretaries, and other support functions. The work covers the entire educational chain – from preschool to municipal adult education, including adapted school forms. As a Quality Strategist, you have an important function in contributing to cohesive governance and development of the sector's quality work through analysis, follow-up, and strategic development work. You will have the opportunity to influence how Education Gävle works with quality, development, and goal fulfillment. You support the sector management's work as well as the primary and secondary school board and the upper secondary and adult education board by developing analyses, follow-ups, and well-substantiated decision-making materials. You will become part of a competent support function where different professions together contribute to Education Gävle's development. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a Quality Strategist, you will have a central role in Education Gävle's strategic development work. You are responsible for developing and coordinating the sector's systematic quality work and contribute to ensuring that governance, follow-up, and analysis become a support for the operations' development and goal fulfillment. You work closely with sector management and are a strategic support in matters concerning quality, operations development, and goal-based management. The role involves many contact points where you collaborate with managers, principals, and support functions and present analyses and decision-making materials to both management and political leadership. Your work tasks include: • Lead, coordinate, and further develop Education Gävle's systematic quality work. • Ensure that quality work complies with the Education Act requirements and national steering documents. • Coordinate follow-up, analysis, and quality reporting for the sector's operations. • Develop, analyze, and quality assure decision-making materials for sector management and boards. • Contribute to dialogue between the management organization and political leadership through well-substantiated analyses and materials. • Drive and coordinate cross-sector development and improvement initiatives. • Support managers, quality developers, and operations in analysis, goal-based management, and quality development. • Monitor the external environment and contribute to the development of governance, follow-up models, and operations development. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone who wants to use their experience in quality, analysis, and operations development to contribute to the development of future education. You thrive in a strategic role where you can alternate between analysis, development, and collaboration and where you contribute qualified support to managers, specialists, and political leadership. You have: • An academic degree in pedagogy, political science, social sciences, or other education that the employer considers relevant for the position. • Several years of experience with qualified quality, development, or analysis work within public operations. • Experience in analyzing, compiling, and presenting complex information and developing decision-making materials for management or political bodies. It is meritorious if you have a master's degree and education in quality management, change management, or operations development. We also view positively experience from the education sector, municipal operations, work close to political governance, school development, or supervision and inspection processes. To succeed in the role, you are: • Communicative – you express yourself clearly and pedagogically, deliver presentations with confidence, and adapt your message based on audience and situation. • Strategic – you see the whole picture, identify development opportunities, and translate the organization's goals into concrete development initiatives. • Analytical – you see logic and connections in complex information and use your analyses as the basis for well-substantiated conclusions and decisions. • Structured – you plan, prioritize, and drive your work forward with high quality while meeting set deadlines. • Relationship-building – you build trusting relationships, work unpretentiously, and create engagement through collaboration toward shared goals. Interviews are estimated to be conducted during weeks 38 and 39. As a final candidate in the recruitment process, it is a requirement that you provide a valid extract from the criminal record register for work in the school system. Type of Employment: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: 2027-01-01. Working Hours: Daytime. We offer you You are important to us! As an employee in Gävle Municipality, you have • generous vacation benefits and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation already during your first year of employment • compensation for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months • several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example, sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included. Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner Our Values Quality, treatment, and cooperation are the most important success factors for fulfilling our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly expressed values. Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work in Gävle Municipality here: https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs Here you can read more about our organization: https://www.gavle.se/organisation Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it may be a merit. Information to recruitment consultants and ad sellers: We decline all contact regarding advertising and recruitment services.

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