Unit Manager, Communications Department

Migrationsverket · Vollzeit

Sturegatan 15, Sundbyberg, Schweden

At the Swedish Migration Agency, we work with one of our time's major societal issues – migration. In total, we have approximately 6,000 employees here, and we have an exceptionally important job! At the Swedish Migration Agency, we work with one of our time's major societal issues – migration. In total, we have approximately 6,000 employees here, and we have an exceptionally important job! We are seeking a Unit Manager for the Communications Department. With us, you will work with current societal issues that are shaped by what happens in our surrounding world. Issues that matter and engage people. We offer a dynamic work environment with secure employment where continuous improvements and meeting with people are in focus. Your Assignment The Swedish Migration Agency is in a development phase where the need for change communication and the ability to communicate proactively, uniformly, and clearly to different target groups is of great importance. At the same time, digital development creates new opportunities and conditions for communications work. You will be one of three unit managers who, together with the Communications Director and the department's employees, develop working methods and strengthen internal and external collaborations. You lead a unit responsible for planned communication, overall language care work, and plain language and accessibility work in the agency's templates and forms. The unit also works with employer branding, management communication, and developing the department's capacity for crisis and crisis communication in acute situations. Your assignment is to lead and coach the unit's 15 employees in various tasks, and develop the unit's expert support to operations in different assignments, during change, and in crisis situations. You are part of the department's management team, take active responsibility for the whole, and contribute at the strategic level that work in a management team entails. You have personnel, budget, and work environment responsibility for your employees. Who Are You? You are an experienced leader with the ability to work in a coaching, visionary, and strategic manner. We place great emphasis on our managers having the personal qualities required to successfully lead an operation in transition. It is therefore important that you demonstrate decisiveness and have the ability to drive issues forward and achieve results. As a leader, it is important that you demonstrate humility, confidence, good judgment, and strong collaboration and communication skills. You lead through courage, empathy, and clarity, and create involvement and conditions for your employees to grow and take responsibility in an environment that inspires work joy, decisiveness, efficiency, and strong accountability. You have a natural ability to build relationships, are transparent, inclusive, and confident in making decisions even in complex and rapidly changing situations. You Have Academic education in communications, journalism, or social sciences, or other education combined with current and relevant experience Managerial experience in communications with personnel, budget, and work environment responsibility Experience driving and developing communications in a complex and politically governed organization Experience working in a management team Good skills in speaking and writing in both Swedish and English It Is Advantageous If You Have Worked in a crisis/staff organization or in an operation with high demands for preparedness and rapid communication Experience developing management communication Information Employment form: Permanent employment (probation period applies) Working hours: Office hours with possibility of agreement on trust-based working hours Salary form: We apply individual salary setting Work location: Stockholm or Norrköping, travel to other locations occurs in the position Start date for the position: by agreement If you have questions about the position, please feel free to contact Eva Carlstedt. Welcome to submit your application materials by October 4. We receive your application through our recruitment system Varbi. Tests may be used in the process. We plan interviews during week 42 and week 45. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ About the Recruitment Process For us, it is important that all competence on the labor market is utilized. We therefore welcome all applicants and strive for equal gender distribution and diversity. As a state agency, we recruit based on merit and competence. You can read more about what this means at arbetsgivarverket.se. You do not need to attach a personal letter with your application, but we wish that you answer the selection questions as clearly and thoroughly as possible so that we can make a fair assessment of your experience and whether you are qualified to proceed in the recruitment or not. In certain recruitments, we also use tests to assess how well your competence matches the position you are applying for. In a possible interview, you may also be asked questions related to security. If you want to get in touch with trade union representatives, contact information for Saco-S, Seko, and ST can be found at the bottom of the page "Vacant Positions and Interest Registration" on migrationsverket.se: Questions and Answers about Applying for a Job at the Swedish Migration Agency To work at the Swedish Migration Agency, you must have the right to stay and work in Sweden on one of these grounds: Swedish citizenship (required for certain positions), Nordic citizenship, EU citizenship, or permanent residence permit. If you have protected personal data, or other information that you yourself consider protected, you should contact [email protected] before you submit your application so we can tell you more about our security procedures. 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