Location: Borås – Community Development Administration
Borås City is in an expansive phase with several exciting development projects within the community development process. The Community Development Administration plays a key role in this. We are now seeking two planning architects for the Planning Unit who want to drive development forward.
The administration consists of approximately 110 employees and works with everything from building permits and detailed planning to strategic urban planning, land development and exploitation, as well as environmental and climate issues. There is also support from finance and HR functions.
With more than 115,000 residents, Borås is Sweden's thirteenth largest municipality and is large enough for a wide range of entertainment, culture, and services. At the same time, everything is within convenient distance. The good location and the university in the city center make Borås attractive for both residents and business. With well-developed public transportation, Borås is connected to Gothenburg and Jönköping as a labor market region. Much positive progress has occurred in Borås and many major challenges remain.
The Community Development Administration has an important role in this development.
The workplace is centrally located with good services and excellent public transportation.
Your Next Workplace
The Planning Unit at the Community Development Administration works with everything from small residential projects to large detailed plans for business land, urban transformation projects, and complex planning programs.
All employees of Borås City share a common mission: to facilitate and improve people's daily lives. To accomplish this in the very best way, all leadership and employee practices must be characterized by trust. We are a work team that works toward common goals. This requires a results-oriented and trustful approach toward colleagues, politicians, and the public.
Your Employment
Employment form: Permanent position, full-time. 100% Start date: To be agreed upon
Salary structure: According to agreement
Your Responsibilities
You will work on several projects simultaneously and also contribute to developing the Planning Unit's operations and provide support to your colleagues as needed. The breadth of projects and development in Borås makes work as a planning architect with us both varied and challenging. As a planning architect, you will primarily lead detailed planning projects but also work as an assistant case handler in others' projects. You will also have the opportunity to lead various types of development projects.
We work in project form on our detailed plans, where each plan is handled by work groups that bring together the necessary expertise. As a planning architect, your task is to lead these work groups. This requires good communication, clarity, and coordination both internally within the municipality and externally with consultants, authorities, and partners. You must be able to balance different interests and make trade-offs, take responsibility for timelines, structure and coordination of consultants, preparation of planning documents and materials for political decisions, etc. You are also expected in your work role to provide well-founded recommendations to decision-makers.
Political engagement is high around our detailed plans, and there is clear prioritization of which projects we work on. This is reviewed and revised annually.
You
You have a strong interest in leading larger projects and have good knowledge of the different phases in the community development process. You have an interest in leading everything from densification projects, complex urban development projects, infrastructure projects, analysis work in early phases, to cross-administrative development work.
You are educated within community development such as planning architect, architect, landscape architect, or other education that we consider equivalent. You have several years of experience working as a planning architect with case handling responsibility and experience in driving, maintaining your own planning projects and producing required documents. Work with detailed planning in municipal operations is a merit. Knowledge of current planning and building legislation and the Environmental Code is important, as is an interest in good urban design and planning.
We are looking for someone who is communicative, creative, analytical, responsive, and good at collaborating. You have a good ability to hold together, plan, and drive a work process and work group forward.
Since a large part of work as a planning architect involves communicating with people, it is important that you have good pedagogical skills and can express yourself in Swedish in speech and writing.
We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.
Application
Welcome to submit your application by August 23, 2026.
In this recruitment, we are cooperating with Capus. For additional information about the position, please contact Johanna Wållgren at 072-660 18 68 or [email protected], or Pia Strandh at 073-340 92 13 or [email protected]
If you become relevant for this position, you must provide a certificate from the Police Authority.
In accordance with the Wage Transparency Directive, information about the salary range for the position will be provided when called for interview.
Union Representatives:
Emma Lanner SACO, 033–358401 or [email protected]
Available weeks 31, 33, and 34.Location: Borås – Community Development Administration
Borås City is in an expansive phase with several exciting development projects within the community development process. The Community Development Administration plays a key role in this. We are now seeking two planning architects for the Planning Unit who want to drive development forward.
The administration consists of approximately 110 employees and works with everything from building permits and detailed planning to strategic urban planning, land development and exploitation, as well as environmental and climate issues. There is…