The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (UHR) is a government agency with a broad mandate in the education sector. Our vision is education, exchange, and development for everyone who wants to advance.
In recent years, the agency has progressively expanded and taken on increasingly complex responsibility for large-scale pilot operations. These include the university entrance test and the newly assigned government task of citizenship testing. Both assignments involve activities that are socially important, security-critical, and dependent on a high degree of coordination, security, and stability.
Are you a driven, change-oriented, and experienced business strategist who is accustomed to independently leading extensive, complex, and time-critical assignments? Do you want to help build an entirely new operation and thrive in an environment where not all answers are yet known, but where you have great opportunity to make an impact?
We are now seeking a business strategist with overall implementation and delivery responsibility for one of the division's two upcoming units: the test execution unit.
What you will do/be responsible for
As a business strategist with overall implementation and delivery responsibility, you will play a key role in building our execution capacity within test operations. You will contribute to establishing a coherent and manageable model for national implementation with high requirements for legal certainty, equity, and security, and will help shape the new division.
You will move between strategic establishment and operational execution, with a focus on sustainable structures, clear governance, and long-term value. You are responsible for planning, implementation, and follow-up, and ensure progress by leading and coordinating project managers and coordinators, in close collaboration with managers and other key roles.
Your tasks include, for example:
- Having overall responsibility for sub-areas including test administration and processing, facilities, and resources/personnel, and coordinating the whole.
- Ensuring planning, prioritization, dependencies, synergies, and progress.
- Ensuring that implementation plans, working methods, procedures, and decision-making materials are developed and followed up.
- Leading sub-area managers and working groups toward common deliverables.
Other work tasks may also occur.
You as a candidate
You have:
- An academic degree in social sciences or another field relevant to the position, or work experience that the employer deems equivalent.
- At least 7 years of experience independently leading large projects, assignments, or operational activities in complex environments.
- At least 7 years of experience coordinating multiple projects/assignments/sub-areas and leading project managers/coordinators.
- At least 7 years of experience independently leading, driving, and following up qualified strategic, analytical, and business development work within public administration or another large organization.
- At least 7 years of experience developing and quality-assuring decision-making, analysis, or planning materials in matters with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.
- Excellent skills in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
It is meritorious if you have:
- Experience working in a politically governed organization and knowledge/experience of government steering processes.
- Experience planning and managing large-scale national implementations (tests, logistics, events, etc.).
- Management experience or experience leading others without being a manager.
- Experience leading the establishment and development of operational models with new working methods.
- Experience leading the establishment of operations and/or work during an intensive development or change phase.
- Knowledge/experience in change management.
- Knowledge/experience in program, project, and/or process management.
- Experience in digital development.
To function well in the role of business strategist, you need to be good at:
- Working independently, taking your own initiatives, and feeling confident in driving matters forward (responsibility, initiative-taking, creativity).
- Making choices, making decisions, and creating progress even when conditions are unclear or changing (responsibility, strategic-tactical ability, decisiveness, flexibility).
- Leading others (leadership ability).
- Handling goal conflicts in collaboration between different sectors and professions (clarity, strategic-tactical ability, collaboration ability).
- Being responsive and unpretentious, while also having the ability to clarify choices, consequences, and need for decisions (responsibility, flexibility).
- Communicating in a clear and audience-appropriate manner (communication/writing ability).
We place great emphasis on personal suitability.
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Apply and become one of us!
Welcome with your application in the form of a personal letter and CV marked with reference number 2.1.1-01193-2026. When you apply, we want you to answer a number of selection questions. In the initial selection, UHR will base its evaluation on the answers to these questions. In this way, UHR evaluates candidates on equal terms. CV and personal letter will be read in the next step of the selection process. The application deadline is August 21, 2026.
If you have any questions about the recruitment, you are welcome to contact the recruiting manager Karin Tegefjord, [email protected]. Representative for Saco-S is Kerstin Martínez phone 010-470 04 69 or email: [email protected] and for ST Anneli Schönning phone 010-470 05 76 or email: [email protected].
We answer questions during the vacation period, but between weeks 28 through 31, response time may be slightly delayed.
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In recent years, the agency has progressively expanded and taken on increasingly complex responsibility for large-scale pilot operations. These include the university entrance test and the newly assigned government task of citizenship testing. Both assignments involve activities that are socially important, security-critical, and dependent on a high degree of coordination, security,…