About this role
The Swedish Board of Agriculture exists to promote increased and sustainable food production and good animal welfare throughout Sweden. We contribute to a vibrant rural community. Approximately 1,850 people work with us. The main office is located in Jönköping, but we also have significant regional operations.
We actively work to ensure that our employees are sustainable and thrive at work! We invest long-term in our employees and want them to develop alongside us! We offer a good working environment with generous benefits, including up to 35 vacation days, wellness grants, and wellness time. In many of our positions, we offer flexible working hours, the opportunity to work remotely, and the ability to work part of the time from home.
Learn more about what it’s like to work at the Swedish Board of Agriculture on our website: www.jordbruksverket.se/jobbahososs
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about ensuring healthy animals in Sweden, want to work on combating serious animal diseases, and thrive in a dynamic environment? Then this job is for you.
The Disease Control Unit works with preventive measures to prevent serious animal diseases, prepare for outbreaks, and combat such serious animal diseases when they occur.
We at the Disease Control Unit need to strengthen our organization with someone who has solid experience in animal health and disease control. With us, you will work operationally on disease control issues, but also extensively with legislation, EU work, disease surveillance, and preparedness efforts. We work in teams, and the teams are largely responsible for their working methods, priorities, and tasks. The team shares the responsibility for monitoring the team's email inbox, responding to emergency calls, and other tasks that are essential for the operation to function.
The work is often event-driven as we handle suspicions and outbreaks of, among other things, avian influenza, Newcastle disease, and anthrax. Periodically, we dedicate a lot of work to disease control investigations, but it is also important that we prioritize our preparedness work, meaning we are prepared to tackle outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition to disease outbreaks in terrestrial animals, we also manage outbreaks in aquaculture animals and bees.
You will have contacts with external actors we collaborate with, such as authorities, companies, and organizations, as well as animal keepers and private individuals. You will have the opportunity to influence EU legislation by preparing for and participating in EU meetings alongside colleagues. The work involves disseminating knowledge and information about disease control in various contexts and representing the Swedish Board of Agriculture. Our issues generate significant public interest, which means we often have contact with the media. You will also work on the team's other ongoing tasks such as general disease control issues, disease monitoring, and regulatory work.
In connection with suspicions and outbreaks of infectious animal diseases, the work is often intense and may involve working outside regular hours and on weekends, especially during periods when avian influenza is present. Even though it is an intense job, it is important that we work sustainably and long-term.
The position may require you to work in the crisis organization of the Swedish Board of Agriculture.
Travel, both within Sweden and internationally, may be required as part of the job.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone with an academic background as a veterinarian, agronomist, or other education that we deem suitable. You have previously worked with disease control, which may involve both preventive measures and handling disease spread.
The position requires excellent knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written. You also hold a B driver's license as travel is part of the job.
It is an advantage if you have previously worked within a government agency. Experience in outbreak control, for example operationally during outbreaks or as a case officer or similar in outbreak investigations, and work related to agricultural animals is also considered advantageous.
We also view it positively if you have experience with the animal species that the team primarily handles, which are poultry and aquatic animals.
We seek someone who is confident and can act calmly even in situations with many uncertainties. The work requires you to quickly find solutions to emerging problems on many occasions. You need to be a stable person who can handle intense periods but also has the ability to recover to feel good at work.
The work requires you to be structured, able to plan your work, and maintain good order in sometimes chaotic situations with complex information and many tasks. Since we work in teams, there are high demands for good communication and collaboration, where we continuously strive to achieve good results together. We will place great emphasis on your personal abilities.
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The work location is Jönköping, Uppsala, or Landskrona with the possibility to work part of the time remotely.
It is important to us that all competencies in the labor market are utilized. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity. We typically apply a 6-month probationary period.
We intend to recruit two permanent positions and one fixed-term position, which will extend until December 31, 2026.
In preparation for the recruitment process