Do you want to work with investments that make a real difference in northern Sweden? Then you might be the person we're looking for.
At the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket), we work for competitive enterprises and sustainable development in all parts of Sweden. We offer knowledge, networks, and investment opportunities. This provides direct benefits to businesses and also creates conditions for companies, municipalities, and regions to meet future challenges. Tillväxtverket is a national authority with regional presence in nine locations.
You will join the Regional Development Northern Sweden unit, part of the EU Investments and National Support department at Tillväxtverket. We are a dedicated team of project advisors and a couple of program managers driving work with the EU's regional fund programs in northern Sweden. We work data-driven, with great responsibility and in close collaboration with both local and national actors.
Your placement will be in Luleå. You will work on issues primarily concerning Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Jämtland, and Västernorrland. Travel is part of the position.
About the Position
As a project advisor within the EU's regional fund, you participate in determining how public funds are invested – in innovation, green transition, digitalization, and stronger enterprises. You get a varied and analytical role where you follow projects from idea to results. At the same time, you build knowledge about the regions' needs and work with assessments that require a strong ability to interpret legal regulations, analyze economic documents, and contribute to smart, sustainable solutions. You participate in Tillväxtverket's efforts to strengthen regional competitiveness and sustainable development.
The role includes work with information, mobilization, advice, follow-up, results dissemination and results communication, as well as processing project applications within the regional structural fund programs.
We offer a modern and flexible work environment with balance between remote work and collaboration at the office.
Your place of work is: Luleå
We are looking for you who have:
A degree from a university or college in social sciences/economics/law or another field that Tillväxtverket considers relevant for the position
Experience working with case management in the public sector or with the EU's structural fund programs. Alternatively, experience working with regional development.
Established networks and/or good knowledge of the region's regional development organizations and growth-promoting actors
Experience working with economic and legal documents
Very good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish, with a focus on making complex information accessible
The following are merits:
Experience with Nyps2020 (case management system)
Experience working with issues within the regional innovation or business promotion system
Experience working with green transition (environmental and climate issues)
Good knowledge of state aid rules
Good knowledge of renewable energy, smart energy systems, and circular economy
Longer work experience focused on the EU's structural fund programs or regional development work in one of the four northernmost counties
Driver's license category B
As a person, we are looking for you who is structured, results-oriented, independent, communicative, and service-minded.
We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.
We expect you to live up to our employee and manager policy, which expresses the expectations we have of all employees.
We expect that you share our values, which are the state values. These unite all state employees, regardless of activity and profession. The values aim to create an administration that is efficient, lawful, and free from corruption and abuse of power.
Type of Employment and Application Deadline
The employment is a permanent position
Application deadline is August 16, 2026
More Information and Contact
For more information about the tasks, you are welcome to contact acting unit manager Henrik Berven at phone 08-681 66 70 until August 11, after that recruiting manager John Wallon at phone 08-681 65 41. Questions about the recruitment process are answered by HR specialist Gunilla Perméus at phone 08-681 9148
Trade Union Representatives
ST: contact person, Robert Berggren, e-mail [email protected]
Saco: contact person, Susanna Lindbom, e-mail [email protected]
Both can be reached by phone via switchboard 08-681 91 00
We recruit based on competence and the recruitment process will include screening questions, possible tests, interviews, and reference checks. To give you as fair and accurate an assessment as possible, it is important that you provide the year and month for each employment as well as a brief description of the tasks in your CV.
If you have protected personal information, we ask you to contact the HR partner in this recruitment.
We are located centrally in modern facilities where you daily choose your workspace based on your tasks. Tillväxtverket strives for a working method where digital and technical solutions facilitate daily work.
Tillväxtverket wants to take advantage of the qualities that an even gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the organization. We strive for a work environment where each employee is given the opportunity to combine professional and private life for balance in life.
Welcome with your application to create your and Sweden's future!
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At the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket), we work for competitive enterprises and sustainable development in all parts of Sweden. We offer knowledge, networks, and investment opportunities. This provides direct benefits to businesses and also creates conditions for companies, municipalities, and regions to meet future challenges. Tillväxtverket is a national authority with regional presence in nine locations.
You will join the…