Business description

The municipality's overall support and development function mainly includes the functions of personnel, finance, purchasing, IT, attractiveness and development, and committees and investigations. The function is to ensure the municipality's ability to meet the future, where digitization, communication and business development are three priority areas to strengthen. The administration is subordinate to the municipal board.

Duties

You will be part of the municipality's management team, which consists of the municipal director and other heads of administration. As head of administration, you are co-responsible, manage and develop the entire municipality of Gällivare and have the overall personnel and work environment responsibility within the administration. A particular development responsibility will be to clarify the roles between operations and support and development functions. In the absence of the municipal director, you will also step in as acting municipal director with all the tasks included in his assignment.

You have the main responsibility for leading and developing the administration together with and through your management team consisting of five department heads. An important task is to create the conditions for efficient operations, manage the supply of skills, develop the organization and ensure high customer satisfaction internally and externally.

Qualifications

Documented good management and leadership skills. Suitable background is an academic degree and several years of experience as a manager and of strategic work in a politically governed organization or other suitable experience or competence deemed equivalent by the employer, good knowledge in one of the administration's areas of activity and experience in operational and quality development. In your current and previous roles, you have created the conditions for a good working environment.

As a person, you have very good cooperation and communication skills, are transparent, clear, unpretentious, inclusive, goal-oriented and can make decisions and ensure implementation. You have a very good ability to create and inspire confidence and a good ability to interact with political leadership and trade union organizations. You have an engaging and inspiring approach to leadership that harnesses and develops the skills of staff, enabling all employees in the organization to develop their full potential. Great importance is attached to personal suitability. Within the framework of the National Minority Languages Act, Gällivare municipality is the administrative municipality for Sami, Meänkieli and Finnish. Knowledge of one of these languages is an advantage when applying for employment in Gällivare municipality.

Gällivare municipality offers you:

• Fresh care benefit in the form of strength training/group training/Dundret
• Fresh care hour
• Take part of the workplace's Trivselpeng
• Membership in GKFF (Gällivare kommuns fritidsförening)
• The opportunity to exchange vacation days for days off
• Gällivare municipality's leadership development program

Here you can read more about what it is like to work in Gällivare municipality: https://gallivare.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobb-praktik-och-ideellt-arbete-

Arbetstid/Varaktighet:

Heltid, Tillsvidareanställning med tidsbegränsat chefförordnande. Probationary period may apply.

Salary

Monthly salary. Please indicate salary requirements in your application.

Access/Application

We would like to receive a CV with your application. Original documents will be provided upon request. Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis

Start date: according to agreement.

Last date for applications: 2026-05-24

Information

Municipal Director Jon Åström Gröndahl, 0970-818 112, mailto:jon.astrom.grondahl@gallivare.se or

Human Resources Manager Anna Johansson Miettinen 0970-818103

Union representatives

Vision and the leaders - can be reached via Gällivare municipality's switchboard.

Welcome with your application!