Regional Coordinator Against Human Trafficking

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Vollzeit

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Schweden

Are you a fearless person ready for new challenges? We are now seeking a regional coordinator against prostitution and human trafficking in the West region, which consists of Västra Götaland and Halland. Gothenburg City is the host municipality for this position, but the assignment comes from the Gender Equality Agency (Jämställdhetsmyndigheten), which is the national coordinator in the work against prostitution and human trafficking. At the regional level, there is close cooperation with the County Administrative Boards in Västra Götaland and Halland. Organizationally, the regional coordinator assignment belongs to the Crisis and Relations Unit within the city-wide department for Children, Family and Safety in the Social Services Administration Center. Work Tasks A regional coordinator works at a capacity-building and strategic level to support and strengthen regional actors in the work against prostitution and human trafficking. The regional coordinator currently also works with support in individual cases. The ambition is to integrate the social perspective with the legal perspective and to develop cooperation between relevant authorities. Your role encompasses everything from participating in and leading certain strategic networks, training various actors within government agencies and civil society, to working operatively on inter-agency initiatives. The position requires that you in certain cases may need to work at inconvenient times and includes some travel within the region and sometimes outside of it. You will be offered supervision to reflect on and develop your work. Qualifications You have a social work degree or what the employer considers equivalent qualifications. We would like you to have experience working against prostitution and human trafficking. It is desirable that you take a systematic perspective and have good knowledge of violence prevention and how to prevent and address victims of violence and crime. You have several years of experience in government authority work, as well as experience meeting people in crisis. Your experience also includes working in cooperation with other authorities. It is advantageous if you have experience in outreach work and knowledge dissemination. You also have experience documenting, following up, and reporting. You have good English skills, both spoken and written. A driver's license is a requirement for this position. Since the work is needs-based, you need to be able to be flexible and adapt quickly, and be able to tolerate not always knowing what will happen next. You can work independently while also enjoying collaborating with others, and you take responsibility for the whole. You are a trustworthy person who is stable, unpretentious, and able to manage complex processes and situations. You are comfortable informing and building competence with cooperation partners/actors about work with the target group. Good communication and a communicative approach with the ability to adapt your communication to the recipient is a prerequisite for the assignment. We place great importance on personal suitability. Welcome with your application! Other Information In this recruitment, you apply without a personal letter. When you apply, you answer questions relevant to the position. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process. Gothenburg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics. Salary, compensation and benefits - Gothenburg City The position is security-classified and a security clearance will be required, which includes giving your consent to a background check conducted by the Security Police (Säkerhetspolisen). Swedish citizenship is a requirement. Gothenburg City is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for Gothenburg's residents, visitors, and businesses. As an employee in the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you get the opportunity for interesting and meaningful tasks. Gothenburg City actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination. For this recruitment, we have decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use and ask that you do not contact us with additional offers of competence placement, advertising and recruitment assistance. About Us We in the Social Services Administration Center work every day to improve the everyday life of residents in central Gothenburg. Our assignments within the social field are many and range from government authority work to promotion and prevention initiatives. We work locally but also have activities that target the entire city to meet our residents' needs. We want to create an equitable and efficient social service with a focus on early intervention for a more equal city. If you are seeking purpose and meaning in your journey and want to work in central Gothenburg - come work with us!