The City Building Administration in Umeå municipality consists of Building Permits, Detailed Planning, Surveying, Environmental and Health Protection and a staff with support functions. The administration has about 200 employees.

The Building Permit Department is divided into three units with a total of about 40 knowledgeable employees who handle building permits with associated site visits and technical consultations, and decide on cases regarding housing adaptation grants. The department also carries out supervision and provides advice and information to the public.

Housing adaptation is a smaller group that works together to process housing adaptation applications. Housing adaptation grants are a municipal grant that people with permanent disabilities can apply for to have their permanent home adapted in an appropriate way, according to the Housing Adaptation Grants Act.

Your duties

As an administrator, you will independently process incoming applications, investigate and assess the measures applied for, evaluate certificates and make decisions on grants for individuals based on the Housing Adaptation Grants Act (2018:222). This means that you mainly work with the exercise of authority. The work involves both office work and visits to the individual's home environment. You document continuously during the case process.

In your work, you have many contacts, both internally and externally. The external contacts can be the applicant, relatives, caregivers, property owners, contractors and others who come into contact with housing adaptation. As an administrator, you also act as a consultant to the certificate providers and are advisory in questions about the business from, for example, applicants and relatives.

Within the unit, quality work is constantly underway to develop the business, which you are expected to participate in together with colleagues and the unit manager. The work also includes keeping up to date with current legislation, regulations and judgments that affect the administration of housing adaptation grants.

The work is varied in difficulty and varies between independent work and working together with colleagues and other people involved. We are a small unit that together takes support from each other in close cooperation.

We offer you

• A fun job, where you make a difference every day!
• A challenging and stimulating work with many contacts within and outside our organization.
• A small and committed team of colleagues where there is goal focus, care and close cooperation.
• Participation and responsibility for creating the conditions to develop the business to meet the needs of the future.

About you

As a person, you are responsive, calm, confident and flexible. You will have close contact with the applicants and their relatives, which requires you to have good communication skills in Swedish in both speech and writing. Furthermore, we consider it important that you are service-oriented and have an interest in meeting people with disabilities and their relatives in the home environment, which places special demands on the treatment. You have good collaboration skills and are good at creating and maintaining good relationships.

Your ability to plan, organize and prioritize your work is good and you are easy to see the big picture. You are confident in your role as an authority and have a good ability to perform your duties carefully, legally and efficiently. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability and interest in working with people.

Requirements

• Trained building engineer, other building technology education or other equivalent experience.
• Many years of work experience in the professional field.
• B-driver's license.
• Unimpaired knowledge of the Swedish language in speech and writing.

Advantageous

• Experience of current legislation on housing adaptation grants and / or building design.
• Experience in the exercise of authority.
• Expertise in accessibility issues.
• Knowledge and experience of working in documentation systems, e.g. BAB-online.

We look forward to receiving your application, welcome!

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About Umeå municipality

Umeå municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine departments and together we work to make Umeå grow with care. Our values are based on citizen focus, transparency, trust and continuous improvement. Together with us, you get to work in socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå continuing to be safe, secure and fun.

Umeå is northern Sweden's largest city with a rich range of experiences and opportunities. We are a city of associations and culture that offers a richer Umeå life even outside work. Here you can find out what it's like to live in Umeå: Move - Umeå municipality

We are going to become more and therefore we are looking for you? Do you also want more? We offer fair conditions, good benefits and good development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as jobs that are important to all those who live and work here. We look forward to hearing from you.