Substitute Municipal Lawyer

Lerums kommun · Full-time

Bagges Torg, Lerum, Sweden

Lerum Municipality is known for its picturesque natural settings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is only 20 minutes from Gothenburg and is currently facing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate. Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the major city municipalities category (2025) - an award based on an extensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas including schools, healthcare and social services, finance, culture and recreation, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is a Super Municipality! We are now seeking a substitute for one of our municipal lawyers who will be on parental leave. The municipal lawyer has an important role in the municipality with the mandate to support both administration and politics and to ensure that the democratic process is conducted correctly and with legal certainty at all levels. The position is centrally placed in the administration. 1 position(s). DUTIES As a municipal lawyer, you need to have great commitment and interest in contributing to the municipality's development within your area of expertise. You support all of the municipality's operations with legal advice in complex situations to guide and present legally sound solutions with a focus on what is best for the administration as a whole. The municipal lawyers develop the municipality's central legal support function and you work together broadly within all legal areas relevant to the municipality, such as municipal and administrative law, public access and confidentiality, urban development, data protection, contract law, school and social law. The tasks are both operational and strategic in nature and include: * Support and advice on legal matters for all of the municipality's operations. * Writing legal investigations and legal assessments. * Handling and preparing cases for political consideration. * Participating in operations development to increase competence in relevant legislation and established governing documents. * Following legal developments at both national and international levels. * Training both administration and elected officials. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with a law degree. To succeed in the assignment, you need to have broad general legal competence and experience working in public operations. Experience with the municipal decision-making process and previous work as a municipal lawyer is a merit. As a person, you are solution-focused and open to new ways of working. You work efficiently, both independently and in collaboration with others, prioritize the needs of the operations, and have the ability to prioritize. You are responsible and structured with high integrity. The assignment involves both driving and developing the function's role in the organization and supporting and consulting handlers, managers, and elected officials. It is therefore important that you have good collaboration skills, high flexibility, and a service orientation. You need to be able to express and convey solutions in both simpler and more complex matters in a clear and understandable way. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. Employment type: Fixed-term employment. Duration: Start date: 2026-11-01, End date: 2027-12-31. Working hours: Daytime. Development in Lerum Municipality shall be sustainable and our governance is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030. We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, operations, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and harassment. We care about a good work environment where you can balance work and leisure. As an employee with us, you have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness allowance and personnel care programs. Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/huvudoverenskommelsehok.8204.html and the collective agreement General Provisions AB https://skr.se/kollektivavtal/allmannabestammelserab.655.html. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting and the individual salary is influenced by both the difficulty of the position and your competence and experience. In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, we have made wage statistics available on our website and you can find information about our collective agreement, our employee benefits, and the applicable salary range for the current position here: https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner Neither the employer nor the job seeker is bound by this information. The information serves only as information for you as a job seeker. As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system login or other verification. To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format. We warmly welcome your application!