Safety and Security Coordinator

Svalövs kommun · Vollzeit

SVALÖV, Schweden

Svalövs kommun – with a strategic location within the Helsingborg family – offers proximity, optimism, and a favorable climate for work and life. Good transportation makes commuting easy. The municipality is home to approximately 14,500 residents. The Municipal Management Office consists of Finance, HR, and the Chancellery, which are cross-organizational support functions. Together, the sector works to create safe, efficient, and forward-thinking operations. With us, you get to participate and influence—both strategically and operationally—in matters that affect the entire municipality. 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Are you a communicative and driven person who wants to work with strategic security and crime prevention issues? Are you interested in having a key role where you collaborate with colleagues, the police, and civil society? Then you might be the person we're looking for at Svalövs kommun! As a Safety and Security Coordinator, you have a municipality-wide and central role in our crime prevention and safety-creating work. Your primary task is to coordinate and drive forward the municipality's crime prevention efforts according to the statutory responsibility that municipalities have. In a smaller municipality, this often means varied work where you move between overarching strategic policies and concrete, operational initiatives in daily operations. These issues are current and highly prioritized by both political and administrative leadership. You report to the Chancellery Director, but you also have direct contact with the Municipal Director, sector heads, and council members. The position is located at the Municipal Management Office's Chancellery, in a group with three additional staff members who primarily work on emergency preparedness issues. You will also be part of the crisis management function. Your main responsibilities - Crime prevention coordination: Lead, develop, and follow up on the municipality's crime prevention work in accordance with applicable legislation and adopted policy documents. - Situation assessment and analysis: Compile and analyze local situation assessments together with the Police and other authorities to implement the right measures in the right locations. - Networks and collaboration: Be the municipality's contact person with respect to the police, fire service, civil society, and business community. - Safety-creating measures: Initiate and lead safety dialogues and drive other local projects. - Emergency preparedness and security: Support the municipality's managers in systematic security work, risk and vulnerability analyses, and in case of any crises. - Fire protection: Coordination and support regarding business operators' systematic fire protection. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone who finds it easy to build trusting relationships and who is good at getting different actors to work toward the same goal. Qualifications: - Relevant university degree in, for example, criminology, political science, law, sociology, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. - Experience working with safety and security issues, preferably from a municipality or other public sector organization. - Good understanding of crime prevention work and collaboration with the police. - Excellent ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish. Merits: - Experience developing and working with structured situation assessments. - Knowledge of emergency preparedness and security protection. - Experience leading networks or project groups. - Experience working in politically governed municipalities. As a person, you are self-directed, analytical, and solution-oriented. You are confident in yourself and have a pedagogical ability to reach different target groups with information. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. We offer a stimulating workplace with short decision-making processes where you can truly influence the municipality's development and residents' daily lives. We apply individual salary setting and good opportunities for professional development. Employment form: Permanent employment. We ask you to apply for the position through the link in this notice to facilitate our handling of incoming applications and to ensure the quality of our selection process. It is of utmost importance that you are careful when filling out your application as it will be evaluated against other applicants. An application to Svalövs kommun is a public record. Information on how we handle your personal data can be found on our website www.svalov.se. 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