Methods Developer, Functional Support

Lerums kommun · Full-time

Bagges Torg, Lerum, Sweden

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic natural settings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is only 20 minutes from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, ranging 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 major city municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas including schools, healthcare and elderly care, economics, culture and recreation, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Do you want to develop the future way of working within functional support? We are looking for someone who wants to make a real difference for both employees and service users. As a methods developer, you will have a central role in developing and quality assuring the organization's working methods. You work closely with the operations and contribute to translating goals and development initiatives into concrete and sustainable methods in everyday practice. In your role, you are an important support to both unit managers and employees, while also helping to build a learning organization where service users' rights, participation, and self-determination are in focus. The work involves identifying and analyzing development needs, driving and following up quality and development initiatives, and ensuring that working methods and procedures maintain high quality and are anchored in applicable legislation and governing documents. You coach and train employees in methodological matters and support managers in their method and quality work. You lead and coordinate support pedagogue networks and collaborate with operations developers to ensure that development initiatives have real impact in the organization. For us, development is not about plans on paper but about improvements that are felt in people's everyday lives. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone driven by development and who wants to contribute to strengthening and quality assuring the organization. To thrive and succeed in this role, you have relevant higher education with a pedagogical or social focus or other education that the employer deems relevant. You have experience from Functional Support and documented experience in coaching, training, and implementing new working methods in work groups. You feel comfortable working within LSS. If you also have previous experience from similar assignments, we see that as an advantage. You have a good understanding of change and development processes and are accustomed to working both analytically and strategically. At the same time, you have the ability to translate ideas and theory into practical working methods that function in everyday practice. As a person, you are structured and self-driven, with the ability to move processes forward. You enjoy collaborating with others, are responsive in your communication, and thrive in a role where you get to support and guide colleagues. We place great emphasis on your personal qualities and are looking for someone who is engaged, curious, and wants to contribute to positive development of the organization. Other Information Driver's license (category B) is required. Interviews will be held on October 13 and 16. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: 2027-01-01. Work hours: Daytime. Development in Lerum Municipality is to be sustainable and our governance is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030. We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, the organization, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment. We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness contributions and employee care programs. Lerum Municipality is covered by the Master Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html and collective agreement General Provisions AB https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting, and the individual salary is affected by both the difficulty of the position and your competence and experience. In accordance with the pay 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 at 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 quality assure the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format. We warmly welcome your application!