HR Specialist with Expertise in Labor Law and Collaboration

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Vollzeit

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Schweden

Our HR department currently employs dedicated professionals with specialized competencies across various areas. Working together with our operations, we focus on workplace environment, labor law, salary administration, employee engagement, leadership, and strategic workforce planning. For us, it's important to maintain a good work environment where our employees have excellent development opportunities and benefits. We provide qualified support to all managers within the administration on both operational and tactical matters. We strive to lead the way and drive successful, active development work that contributes to organizational growth, proud employees, and satisfied tenants. With strong HR expertise and an understanding of how we collectively contribute to the administration's operational development and engaged employees, we integrate our specialized competencies into a well-functioning whole. Within the HR department, we have excellent collaboration where we always support each other. Responsibilities We are growing and are therefore seeking a new colleague to help drive HR work within our administration. You will work in a broad role with comprehensive responsibilities in the HR field. The role involves providing consultative, strategic, and operational HR support to managers in areas such as workplace environment, rehabilitation, collaboration, and labor law. You will also provide management support to a department and be part of its management group. As part of the role, you will contribute expert support in labor law and work closely with the process owner as one of the administration's specialists in this area. You will ensure that HR work is conducted in accordance with applicable legislation, collective agreements, and guidelines, while providing the organization and managers with qualified, operationally focused HR support. You are also responsible for implementing and following up on work methods and updates within the administration. In this role, you will serve as specialist support to HR colleagues within your area of expertise and support the administration's managers in change processes. Qualifications We are looking for someone with a university degree in HR or other academic education that the employer considers relevant. For this position, several years of experience in qualified HR work with a focus on labor law is required, preferably from a larger organization. You have in-depth knowledge of labor law and are well versed in the application and interpretation of labor law legislation and collective agreements. You also have good experience with union negotiations. You have strong experience providing qualified support and advice to managers on labor law matters and independently handling complex individual cases, labor law disputes, and other personnel matters. You also have experience leading, developing, and implementing processes and work methods within your area of specialization. It is advantageous if you have experience with qualified HR work in municipal operations as well as good knowledge of municipal collective agreements and collaboration agreements. To succeed in this role, you are self-driven and work structurally with the ability to drive issues from analysis to implementation. You are a clear and trustworthy communicator who can convey qualified assessments in an educational manner and create understanding in complex labor law matters. You build good collaborations, are receptive to different perspectives, and have a consultative approach when working with managers and colleagues. You have high integrity and act confidently even in complex situations. You stand behind your decisions and can handle difficult conversations and convey uncomfortable messages in a professional and respectful manner. You are development-oriented, stay current in labor law and HR through market awareness, and implement new knowledge in developing the organization's work methods and processes. Other Information We offer a workplace in development with forward-thinking values. Our employees have broad and diverse competencies. We work in pleasant facilities and offer employee benefits such as flexible working hours, wellness allowance, and cycling benefits. Stadsfastigheter works for a sustainable working life where you can combine an exciting and rewarding career with a rich life outside of work. We offer you a development and innovation climate that provides you with excellent opportunities for career advancement. Within the administration, we apply trust-based leadership based on an inclusive workplace. We strive for equal distribution between women and men and diversity in terms of age across our administration. We want our workplace to be characterized by openness and respect for differences, and we believe that diversity contributes to developing our operations. As an employee of Göteborgs Stad, you are subject to general civil service obligations under the law on total defense duty. Göteborgs Stad applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics; Salary, compensation and benefits - Göteborgs Stad To agencies and recruitment firms: We politely but firmly decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance. About Us Stadsfastighetsförvaltningen creates environments where life can flourish by planning, building, leasing, managing, and developing facilities and outdoor spaces for Göteborgs Stad's operations. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people from Gothenburg work in preschools, schools, care facilities, and other locations that we maintain. Together with the city environment administration, development administration, and urban planning administration, we have coordinated responsibility for urban development in Göteborgs Stad. This means a shared distribution of responsibilities and roles based on phases: planning; implementation and management with the goal of contributing to cohesive, efficient, and transparent urban development for residents, visitors, and businesses in the city.