Do you want to be part of creating a sustainable and good society in Enköping? We are now looking for an Operations Manager for the Social Services Department with responsibility for Individuals and Families.
Enköping Municipality is the workplace for those who want to be part of creating a sustainable and good society. Here you have the opportunity for personal development while making a real difference for everyone who lives and works in Enköping. We expect you to be competent, curious, and ready to take on significant responsibility. What good ideas do you want to help bring to life?
At our Social Services Department, we work together to help Enköping residents who find themselves in difficult and vulnerable life situations.
We have close leadership and actively work to develop the organization. We are leading the transition to the new Social Services Act and actively work to increase accessibility to support and help for our citizens.
With approximately 200 employees, we have the perfect size for a department in terms of leadership, governance, and community, which is reflected in our high employee satisfaction index. You are expected to lead according to a model where department managers complement each other and take responsibility for the whole.
For us, you as an employee are our most important resource. We strive for a work environment characterized by our core values: responsibility, participation, development, legal certainty, collaboration, and respect.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
As Operations Manager, you have overall responsibility for leading, developing, and monitoring operations within Individuals and Families. You lead through managers and participate in the social services management team where you contribute to the department's overall development.
You ensure that operations are legally sound, maintain high quality, and develop based on residents' needs with special focus on early intervention and preventive measures.
In this role, you will:
• Manage operations, budget, and personnel
• Ensure legally compliant authority exercise
• Drive development of outpatient services and preventive work
• Lead through your unit managers and create sustainable structures
• Contribute to strategic development in the management team
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
• Represent and present matters at Social Services Board meetings
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who:
• Has relevant university education (e.g., social work, law, or behavioral science)
• Has several years of leadership experience in social services
• Has good knowledge of authority exercise and current legislation
• Is a confident leader with experience leading through others
• Has experience with budget and operations responsibility
It is an advantage to have experience in change management and working in a politically governed organization. We also welcome experience as a manager of managers or other supervisory positions.
Your personal qualities are important to us. You are a strategic and clear leader who creates engagement and trust. You have the ability to see the bigger picture while driving development and improvement. You are stable, collaborate well, and thrive in a complex and changing environment. In this recruitment process, we conduct background checks on final candidates as part of our procedure.
Employment Type: Permanent employment.
Duration: Indefinite.
We welcome your application!
It is of utmost importance that customers and clients within the social services can feel secure in the care for which the municipality is responsible. Therefore, you must provide a certificate from the criminal record register before being offered employment. Processing time for a certificate is approximately three weeks, and you order it yourself through the police website. We recommend ordering the certificate at the same time you submit your application so everything is ready if you advance in the recruitment process. The certificate must be sealed and not older than 6 months.
Order your criminal record certificate on the police website here:
https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/
To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the application link.
Your application documents are subject to the principle of public access and may therefore be disclosed as public records following a confidentiality assessment. If you want to know more about how Enköping Municipality generally handles personal data, you can find more information on our website.
For those with a protected identity, here is information on how to apply for the position:
https://enkoping.se/underwebbar/jobb-och-karriar-i-enkoping/jobba-hos-oss/var-rekryteringsprocess.html
We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this announcement.Do you want to be part of creating a sustainable and good society in Enköping? We are now looking for an Operations Manager for the Social Services Department with responsibility for Individuals and Families.
Enköping Municipality is the workplace for those who want to be part of creating a sustainable and good society. Here you have the opportunity for personal development while making a real difference for everyone who lives and works in Enköping. We expect you to be competent, curious, and ready to take on significant responsibility. What good ideas do you want to help bring to life?
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