The Pre- and Compulsory Education Administration works on behalf of the Pre- and Compulsory Education Committee. The administration is a mission-focused and professional educational organization based on the school principal's responsibility for an equal education of good quality. The Pre- and Compulsory School Board has overall responsibility for ensuring that all children registered in the municipality have access to pre-school and educational care, as well as schooling in the municipality's own or independent activities. The board is responsible for municipal preschools, including preschools in minority languages, educational care in the form of daycare and night-time activities, preschool classes, compulsory schools, adapted compulsory schools and after-school clubs. The Board must ensure that municipal education is based on fundamental democratic values and the equal value of all children and pupils. The Board's activities involve around 3 700 employees and around 19 600 children and pupils. The total budget is 2.3 billion. We are now looking for a security and emergency preparedness coordinator for the Board Office of the Pre- and Compulsory Education Administration. Welcome with your application! Duties and responsibilities Security and preparedness coordinator is a newly created position that means that you will have a central role in building up, running and coordinating the pre- and compulsory school administration's work with the School Act's security chapter that came into force on July 1, 2025 and other preparedness issues within the framework of the administration's civil preparedness. You are part of a working group with premises planning expertise and collaborate with other functions within the administration and in the municipality's other administrations in your work to develop the pre-school and compulsory school's processes in security and preparedness issues. You will also provide advice and support to the organization on, for example, the design of pre-school and school playgrounds, accessibility adaptations and conduct safety tours of our premises. The preschool and primary school administration is facing major challenges linked to demographic changes and a reduction in the number of children. This means that we need to be able to adapt our processes, working methods and resources quickly and efficiently. You will report to the Permanent Secretary but will also play an important role in supporting the administrative management and the administration's principals in preschools and compulsory schools in security and preparedness issues. Your work is both strategic and operational and you are part of the pre-school and primary school administration's crisis management organization and in a municipality-wide network for security issues. Your duties will include, among other things: developing the administration's crisis organization and ensuring that the necessary plans are in place, known and practiced planning, implementing and monitoring training and exercises to strengthen the preventive capacity of the pre-school and primary school administration provide advice and support to the organization on school safety issues, safety enhancement measures coordinate and develop work on risk and vulnerability assessments and continuity management develop and provide support in the work on the contingency plans of the activities and the administration cooperate with other administrations, municipalities and authorities About you You have a high level of security awareness and a good ability to structure, prioritize and take initiative in your work. As a person, you inspire confidence in working with others and demonstrate good judgment and integrity. You are analytical, solution-oriented and confident in handling complex information. You also have good organizational and planning skills. The work involves a lot of written and oral communication, so you need to be able to express yourself well. You are used to preparing documents and presenting cases and have a good ability to adapt your communication to the target audience in an educational way. We are looking for you who have: an appropriate university degree with a specialization in emergency preparedness, risk management and civil protection or other education/professional experience deemed equivalent by the employer it is an advantage if you have work experience of coordinating preparedness and security work in a public organization Swedish citizenship as the position involves placement in a security class. A security check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) will be carried out before employment B-driving license. In the selection, we attach great importance to personal suitability. About Umeå municipality Umeå municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 brave 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 is like to live in Umeå: https://www.umea.se/flytta We will become more and therefore we are looking for you? Do you also want more? We offer fair conditions, https://www.umea.se/jobbochforetagande/jobbochpraktik/kommunensomarbetsgivare/varaformaner.4.1b4d24fb1752122eb843bf.html and good development opportunities for lifelong learning. And jobs that are important to all those who live and work here. We look forward to hearing from you.