Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural areas 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 away from Gothenburg and is currently in an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, 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 municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as schools, healthcare and elderly care, economy, culture and recreation, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is truly a Super Municipality!
The Labor Market Unit is one of four units within the Working Life and Support service in the Support and Care Sector.
At the Labor Market Unit, we base our work on BIP research, which emphasizes the importance of an individual's resources, motivation, and belief in their own abilities to achieve establishment in the labor market.
1 position(s).
JOB DUTIES
As a coordinator, you will have a central role in creating pathways to employment and self-sufficiency for people outside the labor market. You will serve as the link between participants, employers, the Swedish Public Employment Service, municipal services, and other collaboration partners.
Through active and relationship-building work, you will develop and maintain collaborations with both private and public employers. You will work to identify employers' competency and recruitment needs and contribute to creating opportunities for participants through internships, work training, skills development, and employment.
Your work tasks include:
• Actively working to create internship positions, work training positions, and employment opportunities
• In collaboration with labor market case officers, map the target group's competencies, resources, and support needs
• Match participants to internships, work training, and employment, and follow up and quality assure placements
• Map employers' workforce needs and identify sought-after skills in the labor market
• Plan and conduct seminars together with case officers to strengthen the target group's opportunities for self-sufficiency through courses, training, and other skills-enhancing initiatives
• Coordinate study visits, information meetings, and other activities in collaboration with employers and external partners
• Plan, coordinate, and develop the municipality's holiday work programs by ensuring access to holiday positions and taking responsibility for follow-up
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone with post-secondary education and experience from similar work that the employer considers relevant for the assignment.
You have experience working with one or more of the following target groups: long-term unemployed, individuals with reduced work capacity, newly arrived persons, or people in social vulnerability. You have a professional and goal-oriented working approach with a focus on individual development.
You have knowledge and/or experience working with people with mental and physical functional variations, mental health issues, and work rehabilitation. It is a merit if you have experience with people with psychiatric and substance abuse issues and collaboration with authorities and private employers.
We also see that you have good knowledge of subsidized employment and labor market initiatives, good digital skills, documentation experience, and good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing.
To succeed in this role, you are communicative, structured, and solution-focused. You work purposefully with individual development, adapt support based on needs and circumstances, and follow up on initiatives in a systematic way. You are flexible and unpretentious and enjoy working both independently and in close collaboration with others.
We also value that you have the ability to identify development needs and contribute to the development of the organization in a changing world.
Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.
Employment form: Permanent employment.
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 individuals, 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 personal 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 your individual salary is influenced by both the difficulty level of the position and your competence and experience.
In accordance with the pay transparency directive, we have made salary 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 at Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for identification 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 e-mail or paper format.
We warmly welcome your application!
Regarding this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We politely but firmly decline to be contacted with further offers of competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural areas 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 away from Gothenburg and is currently in an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, 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 municipality category (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish…