Horticulturist at Gamla Linköping

Linköpings kommun · Full-time

Linköping, Sweden

The position is placed within the Department of Culture and Leisure, which is one of eight departments in Linköping Municipality. We offer everyone living and working in Linköping Municipality a broad and varied range of cultural and leisure activities. Would you like to enrich everyday life and improve the quality of life for Linköping residents? With us, you can make a significant difference and help make Linköping an even better place. Welcome to us! Your Work Tasks Gamla Linköping – a unique cultural-historical open-air museum in the heart of the city – is now seeking a dedicated and driven horticulturist. You will contribute to preserving and developing our unique cultural-historical gardens, which are a central part of the museum's living history. You enjoy working physically and in outdoor environments. Your main responsibility is to oversee the long-term care, maintenance, planning, and development of Gamla Linköping's cultural-historical gardens and other cultivated areas. You are our expert in green cultural heritage and work in an environment that meets visitors daily. You are responsible for implementing events and programs related to gardens, green cultural heritage, and cultivation, as well as giving tours of the gardens to various groups. For example, you will serve as sub-project leader for the event Jätte Grönt. You will also work in the museum's clone archive in collaboration with the National Gene Bank at SLU. We host interns, seasonal workers, and publicly employed workers in our activities, and as a horticulturist you play an important role in this social mission. You will mentor and supervise these colleagues, which means adapting tasks based on each individual's circumstances, creating a positive work environment, and contributing to their development. Here you have the opportunity to combine cultural-historical craftsmanship with giving people valuable work experience. Your Workplace As a horticulturist, you belong to the unit Museums and Cultural Heritage. The unit consists of the open-air museum Gamla Linköping, the image archive Bild Linköping, and municipal support for the Castle and Cathedral Museum. Your workplace is Gamla Linköping, one of Östergötland's most visited attractions and one of Sweden's most visited museums. Gamla Linköping depicts Linköping during the period around 1700-1970. The museum consists of three parts: the city quarters, the rural Valla gård, and the nature reserve Vallaskogen, with peasant forest that is managed as it was in earlier times. Here city and countryside meet within walking distance of Linköping city center. In the open-air museum there are some 50 cultural-historical gardens. Responsibility for gardens is included in the operational area of Operations and Living Collections, which is led by an operations manager. Some weekend work occurs in connection with events and during the summer, as well as 2-3 regular weekend shifts/year. About You We are looking for someone who is trained as a horticulturist or has other education that the employer deems relevant for the assignment. You have good knowledge of cultural-historical plants and gardens. Previous experience with the care of these is meritorious. We also see that you have previous experience in mentoring or work supervision, as you will be responsible for mentoring our publicly employed workers, interns, and seasonal workers. You need to have good communicative skills in Swedish, both spoken and written. If you have knowledge of clone archives and gene banks through previous experience or education, we view that as meritorious. To succeed in the assignment, good leadership qualities and a strong ability to work in a coordinating and supportive role are essential. As an individual, you are confident both in your competence and as a person. You plan and prioritize your work in an efficient and purposeful manner. You enjoy working with other people, are communicative, and have a good ability to create engagement and participation. Does this sound like an assignment for you? We welcome your application! Other Information When you apply for a position in Linköping Municipality, you register your application by logging in with e-identification (such as BankID or FrejaID) instead of an email address. Do you lack e-identification? Please contact the responsible HR consultant or manager, and they will help you register your application. Start date: 2026-12-01 or by agreement Employment type: Fixed-term employment until 2027-11-30 Employment rate: 100% Number of open positions: 1 Ref. no.: 17748 No personal letter should be attached to this application Together We Shape the Future City Linköping is one of Europe's most innovative cities and a municipality of possibilities. With energy, courage, and heart, we make our city even better. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to find new solutions. And by enriching everyday life and improving the quality of life for our residents.