Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome to submit your application!
The Functional Support Department is responsible for support, services, and measures for people with disabilities. Within the department are the operational areas: Assessment Unit Functional Support LSS/SoL, Social Psychiatry, Children, Youth and Short-term, Special Housing LSS, Personal Assistance, and Daily Activities.
This position is located within the operational area Special Housing Support LSS, which consists of group homes and service apartments for adults with decisions under the Act on Support and Services for Certain Disabled People. The operational area is led by an Operations Manager and currently comprises 30 units geographically distributed throughout Gävle Municipality. The units are led by 13 unit managers, and the operational area is growing with several planned openings in the coming years.
1 position(s).
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The Special Housing Support LSS operational area is growing, and we are now expanding with an additional Operations Manager. The assignment involves close collaboration with the existing Operations Manager to lead, follow up, and further develop the operational area.
As Operations Manager, you lead the operations through your unit managers and have overall responsibility for leading and developing the business. You are part of the department's management team and contribute to implementing goals and strategies into operations where citizens' needs are at the center.
The assignment includes:
• responsibility for the operational area, finances, quality, and results
• leading, supporting, and engaging your employees
• ensuring efficient and sustainable resource use at the operational level
• creating conditions for your employees to succeed in their assignments
• anticipating and analyzing factors that may affect operations to proactively meet future changes and challenges
• driving development and improvement work based on operational goals and future needs
• collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
You report to the Department Manager, who is also your immediate supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for an experienced and confident leader with the ability to achieve results through others. You thrive in a strategic role where you lead through other managers, drive development, and build trusting relationships. With a trust-based approach, holistic perspective, and commitment, you create conditions for the operation to reach its goals.
For this position, you must have:
• a college or university education that the employer deems relevant for the position
• several years of experience as a manager and leader
• experience leading through other managers.
It is a merit if you have:
• experience with the target group covered by LSS
• knowledge of the Act on Support and Services for Certain Disabled People (LSS)
• experience as a manager in a politically governed organization.
Your personal qualities are important for you to thrive and succeed in the position. You are:
• collaborative: You have an unpretentious approach and work well with others. By creating good relationships and finding solutions that benefit the whole, you contribute to common results.
• trustful in your leadership: You lead from a trust-based approach and create clarity around goals and direction. Through present leadership, you provide responsibility, mandate, and support, which creates conditions for your managers to develop, take responsibility, and succeed in their assignments.
• communicative: You communicate clearly and confidently in different contexts. You create dialogue, explain decisions, and ensure that messages get through in a way that creates understanding and participation.
• change-oriented: You see opportunities in change and development. You drive improvement work, handle challenges constructively, and have the ability to lead operations through both change and complex situations.
• strategic: You have a holistic perspective and the ability to think long-term. By analyzing the external environment, needs, and future challenges, you translate goals and strategies into results. You look to the benefit of the entire organization and contribute to sustainable development across operational boundaries.
Warmly welcome to submit your application!
Employment type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Permanent, start date: 2026-11-01.
Working hours: Daytime.
We offer you
You are important to us! As an employee in Gävle Municipality, you have
• generous vacation terms 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 health insurance and occupational injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner
Our values
Quality, treatment, and collaboration 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, in addition to our other competency requirements, also speak Finnish, it could be a merit.
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The Functional Support Department is responsible for support, services, and measures for people with disabilities. Within the department are the operational areas: Assessment Unit Functional Support LSS/SoL, Social Psychiatry, Children, Youth and Short-term, Special Housing LSS, Personal Assistance,…