About this role
We are now seeking you who, together with us, want to make a difference for those we serve! Växjö Municipality is Kronoberg's largest employer, working every day, year-round, for our residents, businesses, and visitors. Together, we create a sustainable tomorrow and an attractive municipality to live, reside, and work in – today and in the future. This means a job where we challenge ourselves to think innovatively, learn, and develop together. Would you like to be part of something larger where you can truly make a difference? Welcome to Växjö Municipality!
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The position is located in the Strategy and Planning Department, which is part of the Community Development Administration. Here, we work long-term on planning issues, strategies, and development for the entire municipality. You will closely collaborate with both social services and community planning, contributing to bridging traditional organizational boundaries.
Job Tasks
As a Social Sustainability Development Specialist, you will play a key role in developing approaches, processes, and collaboration methods between social services and community planning. Your mission involves translating the new Social Services Act's goals of preventive work, participation, and social services' involvement in community planning into concrete practice.
You will, among other things:
• Create and drive new collaboration forms between social services and community planning.
• Initiate and lead development projects that strengthen preventive and promotional perspectives.
• Participate in municipal planning processes from planning decisions and preliminary studies to detailed plans and design of public spaces, focusing on social perspectives.
• Develop materials, analyses, and methods for social sustainability and social impact assessments.
• Provide support to management and departments on social dimensions of physical planning, housing provision, and investment projects.
• Build networks and lead cross-sectoral collaboration forums.
• Communicate, educate, and disseminate knowledge about socially sustainable community planning.
• Propose indicators and contribute to follow-up and evaluation of social goals.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are seeking candidates who have:
• Academic degree in social sciences, political science, sociology, public health, behavioral sciences, or equivalent with an interest in community planning.
• Several years of experience working on social issues or in similar public sector activities.
• Experience with development, change, or collaboration work across organizational boundaries.
• Good knowledge of social services' mandate, the new Social Services Act, and municipal governance.
• Ability to analyze complex societal issues and transform knowledge into practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
Experience in process leadership, project management, or work with social sustainability in physical planning is considered meritorious.
You are collaborative, analytical, and communicative, with the ability to build relationships, create engagement, and drive development forward. You have a holistic perspective and see connections between social, economic, and environmental issues in community development. You are structured, innovative, and thrive in a role that combines strategic thinking with practical implementation.
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Växjö Municipality's employees should reflect the diversity found in the municipality. We welcome applicants regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, etc.