Leisure Leader

As an employee of Götene Municipality, you become part of a whole where engagement and collaboration across boundaries are a given. Here, we value courage and innovation in everything we do, and we strive for workplaces that stimulate creativity, initiative, and responsibility. With us, you will have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful and socially beneficial efforts that make a difference in people's everyday lives. We have a clear vision – we aim to become Sweden's best rural municipality. Götene Municipality is a place where people, whether young, old, or in the midst of life, feel secure and have the conditions to develop. Here, children are at the center. We harness every young individual's drive and creativity by offering top-class education, a rich cultural life, and meaningful leisure activities that allow children and youth to develop into their best selves. The tranquility, community, and simplicity we offer, combined with the vibrancy of the surrounding cities, provide the conditions for a rich life, regardless of where one is in life. Just around the corner awaits Vänern and Kinnekulle, offering an outdoor life that many can only dream of. Do you want to help shape Sweden's best rural municipality? Learn more about Götene Municipality at http://www.gotene.se, and what life in Skaraborg has to offer at https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/kommuner/gotene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCtx-cGrzis The Leisure Unit, which includes Youth Leisure, Association Leisure, and soon also the swimming pool, is led by the Leisure Unit Manager. **Description** We are currently seeking an engaged leisure leader with experience working in youth center operations, projects, and events aimed at various groups of young people, who wants to help further develop our youth activities in Götene Municipality. Within the Culture and Leisure Sector, we offer activities and programs for all ages in Götene Municipality, and we see great opportunities to expand collaboration between units to advance cultural and leisure work. Therefore, we are looking for someone who wants to help develop new working methods and collaborations and who is committed to the overall development of the Culture and Leisure Sector. The Culture and Leisure Sector currently has about 39 employees across our various operations: Youth Leisure, Senior Leisure, the Culture School, Libraries, and the Cultural Area. Youth leisure activities are currently conducted in the municipality's four urban areas, primarily in the evenings. **Responsibilities** As a leisure leader, you are an important part of the team working within Youth Leisure. In the role of leisure leader, you will collaborate with your colleagues in the open leisure activities based on a supportive approach, where you help create an active, developing, and meaningful leisure time for the children and youth of Götene Municipality. In this role, you will work with your colleagues in Youth Leisure across all of Götene Municipality, where the youth centers are one of several meeting places. The activities are based on planned events and activities in both indoor and outdoor environments, in collaboration with schools, student health services, and social services. You will collaborate with several units within the Culture and Leisure Sector and carry out activities, planning, and larger events. **Qualifications** We are looking for someone who is a trained leisure leader or social pedagogue, or has another education/experience that the employer deems equivalent. You have good experience working with young people in some form of preventive social work or leisure activities. A driver's license is required as you will be working in the urban areas of Götene, Hällekis, Källby, and Lundsbrunn. Documented experience in engaging and working with children and youth with special needs and neuropsychiatric variations is considered an asset. Experience from municipal operations is also desirable. **Who are you?** - You are secure and have an easy time building good relationships. - You are passionate about creating good conditions for children and youth. - You are positive, creative, and solution-oriented. - You are flexible and work well in collaboration. - You can work independently as well as in a group. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. **Conditions** Permanent employment at 100% with a start date to be agreed upon. Interviews may be conducted continuously during the application period, so please submit your application today. At a potential interview, you must be able to provide valid identification, such as a passport or ID card. For employment, a clean extract from the criminal record must be presented. You can apply for an extract via the police's website. We welcome your application! We only accept applications electronically via our website. Staffing and recruitment companies, as well as job advertisement sellers, are kindly requested to refrain from contacting us. Götene Municipality applies a smoke-free working environment. Götene Municipality strives for gender equality and diversity in our operations and actively works for an even gender distribution and ethnic and cultural diversity.