Are you the one? Jokkmokk is a municipality with its sights set on the future!
We are a place where community and responsibility take center stage, where your skills and ideas can help shape the path forward. If you value a high quality of life with easy access to both nature and community, Jokkmokk offers a rich cultural life and affordable recreational opportunities to enjoy.
Welcome to a municipality that combines drive and a spirit of cooperation—here, you can help create something new.
Would you like to combine strategic HR work with providing close support to our managers? As HR Manager for the Municipality of Jokkmokk, you’ll play a key role in developing the municipality’s employer policies, strengthening leadership, and creating the right conditions for our operations to achieve their goals. We’re looking for someone with broad HR expertise, a solid understanding of labor law and workplace safety, and a strong commitment to people and development.
Do you want to lead and develop HR efforts in a municipality where being close to the operations makes a difference?
Jokkmokk Municipality is seeking a dedicated and driven HR Manager who wants to help develop our organization and strengthen our position as an attractive employer. We offer a varied and responsible role where you’ll have the opportunity to combine strategic development work with close, hands-on support for the municipality’s managers.
The HR department works to ensure professional, legally sound, and development-oriented support for the municipality’s operations, as well as to contribute to a positive work environment, sustainable working life, and long-term talent acquisition.
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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
As HR Manager, you will lead and develop the municipality’s HR work and have overall responsibility for ensuring that the HR function contributes to the development of the operations and the achievement of their goals.
The role includes, among other things:
• Leading, coordinating, and developing the municipality’s HR processes.
• Providing expert support to managers on labor law issues and personnel matters.
• Providing support in workplace health and safety, rehabilitation, and collaboration issues.
• Be responsible for and develop the municipality’s employer policy.
• Drive initiatives related to talent acquisition, recruitment, and leadership development.
• Collaborate with labor unions as well as internal and external partners.
• Participate in municipality-wide development and change initiatives.
• Be responsible for developing and monitoring policies, guidelines, and other governing documents.
This role requires you to be able to switch between strategic perspectives and operational initiatives. You are expected to be closely involved with the operations and to provide clear support to the municipality’s managers in their day-to-day work.
QUALIFICATIONS
• We are looking for someone who has:
• A college degree in human resources, labor relations, law, or another field deemed equivalent by the employer.
• Several years of experience in specialized HR work.
• Strong knowledge of labor law and occupational health and safety.
• Experience supporting managers in complex personnel matters.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Swedish.
The following are considered a plus:
• Experience in a leadership role.
• Experience working in municipal or other politically governed organizations.
• Experience with change management and organizational development.
Personal Qualities
To succeed in this role, we look for someone who is:
• Strategic and analytical, with the ability to see the big picture.
• Operational and decisive, with a strong ability to put ideas into practice.
• A team player and effective communicator.
• Confident in your professional role and possessing high integrity.
• Structured, solution-oriented, and independent.
You have a genuine interest in leadership, development issues, and creating the right conditions for managers and employees to succeed in their roles.
We offer
With us, you’ll play a key role in the municipality’s continued development. You’ll become part of an organization with short decision-making paths, close collaboration between departments, and ample opportunities to make a difference.
In Jokkmokk Municipality, we operate based on our core values of Respect, Responsibility, and Equality, which permeate our work and our interactions with employees, residents, and partners.
Employment Type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start date: Start date to be agreed upon.
Work hours: Daytime.
Jokkmokk Municipality strives for gender balance as well as ethnic and cultural diversity in our operations. Knowledge of the Sámi language and Sámi culture is considered an asset. Our core values aim to define the principles that should guide all activities in Jokkmokk Municipality, where our guiding principles are respect, equality, responsibility, courage, commitment, and competence.
To ensure the quality of our recruitment process and facilitate effective communication with our applicants, we ask that you submit your application digitally via the “Apply Here” link, and not via email or in paper format.
To staffing, placement, and recruitment agencies, and to sales representatives:
We kindly but firmly request that placement and recruitment agencies, as well as other external parties and sales representatives, refrain from submitting additional job postings.
The salary range for this position is between XX and XX,000 SEK per month for full-time employment. We determine salaries on an individual basis based on your experience and qualifications.