Responsibilities
As a Research and Development Leader, you will have a key role in building a new R&D function for Skaraborg municipalities. The assignment has great strategic importance and is about making research, proven experience, and practice-based knowledge a natural part of the municipalities' development work.
You will develop structures, working methods, and collaborations that strengthen the municipalities' ability to work systematically with knowledge, analysis, and learning. An important part is to build sustainable relationships with universities and other knowledge actors.
The assignment involves bringing together municipalities, academia, and other actors around common challenges and creating forms for long-term collaboration. You will lead development and collaboration processes and contribute to new working methods gaining traction.
This is a role with great opportunity to influence direction, working methods, and priorities in close dialogue with the municipalities, colleagues within the joint municipal authority, and other collaboration partners.
The role includes:
. initiate, lead, and coordinate the development of the R&D unit together with the municipalities and colleagues at the joint municipal authority
. develop long-term collaborations with universities and other knowledge actors
. create structures for how research can be implemented in practice and contribute to operational development
. support municipalities in work with knowledge-based working methods, follow-up, and analysis
. process-lead networks and collaboration arenas within the welfare area
. contribute to identifying common development needs and initiating relevant initiatives
. monitor research, policy, and good examples and contribute to competence development
. represent Skaraborg in regional and national contexts related to R&D
Qualifications
We are looking for someone with:
. experience in driving or coordinating development work, projects, or processes
. experience of collaboration between different organizations and actors
. experience of work within social services or municipal health and medical care
. relevant academic education at least at bachelor's level
. experience of research-related work or collaboration between academia and practice
. very good ability to communicate and collaborate
It is meritorious if you have:
. relevant academic education at master's or equivalent level
. experience in building and developing networks or collaboration structures
. knowledge of knowledge governance within the welfare area
. research training
You could have your background from, for example, a municipality, region, university, public authority, or research institute.
To succeed in the role, you need the ability to build trusting and long-term relationships. You thrive in settings where many actors need to collaborate and have an easy time creating structure and direction in complex environments.
You are proactive and persistent, with the ability to drive work forward together with others. You are responsive to different perspectives and can adapt your working methods according to context and needs.
Other Information
We offer you a strategic and development-oriented assignment with great opportunity to influence how R&D work within social services and municipal health and medical care develops in Skaraborg.
You will become part of an organization with a strong collaboration profile, engaged colleagues, and close connection to the municipalities' leadership.
The workplace is an activity-based office in central Skövde, with the possibility of some remote work. We offer flexible working arrangements and good opportunities for competence development.
Equal and equitable operations are very important to us. We see different backgrounds and affiliations as an asset. Our workplaces should also be free from discriminatory structures.
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As a Research and Development Leader, you will have a key role in building a new R&D function for Skaraborg municipalities. The assignment has great strategic importance and is about making research, proven experience, and practice-based knowledge a natural part of the municipalities' development work.
You will develop structures, working methods, and collaborations that strengthen the municipalities' ability to work systematically with knowledge, analysis, and learning. An important part is to build sustainable relationships with universities and other knowledge actors.
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