Are you confident with change and want to sharpen your leadership skills? We are now looking for heads of unit for the municipality's IT and digitalization activities. Come and contribute with your leadership in an organization that wants more! Our mission is to develop products and to hold together digitization work in a broad organization that improves life in Umeå - from preschool to elderly care. Now we are looking for you who want to be involved in leading and developing the organization. Our organization is responsible for developing the municipality's capacity for digital transformation with broad expertise. We have leaders, system developers, architects and specialists in IT and digitization who drive and hold together the municipality's journey into the future. It is a meaningful and developing mission that we are proud to have. We have around 100 sharp employees who care about job satisfaction and community. About the job As a unit manager, together with team leaders, product owners and process managers, you lead a number of employees in an organization that embraces change. You work closely with the various leaders of the business to facilitate work and constantly coach our teams and employees towards curiosity and change. Your focus revolves around people management and unlocking employee potential, which includes: Leading and coaching employees in constant change Creating job satisfaction and maintaining a good working environment Developing employees' skills and capabilities Removing barriers for teams and employees As a Head of Unit, you will work with specialists in our operations. You will have the opportunity to learn a lot from our staff and colleagues in these areas: Agile teams and product development Systems development and management IT architecture and cybersecurity Service desk and client management Network and server operations About you We are looking for you with a higher post-secondary education and several years of experience in management roles. You will lead employees in areas with an ever-increasing pace of development. Experience in one or more of these areas is an advantage: Workplace well-being and happiness Skills development and employer branding Leadership development and trust-based leadership We believe that applicants for this position are courageous and want to develop. You are responsive and have the ability to see other people's potential. You are driven by coaching employees to surpass themselves (and even you). Through good social skills and respectful treatment, you create a good climate of cooperation and mutual trust. You are structured and can maintain order when needed, and have a good sense of when it would be better to change or get rid of a limiting structure. You have good communication skills and know both Swedish and English to a good level, both in speech and writing. Through thoughtful listening and courageous communication, you will help our employees and our organization grow. The transition that our municipality (and the whole of society) is facing involves a lot that is unexplored or needs to be questioned. In what we do, all the answers will not be available in advance, and a lot will be unclear. In this situation, you need to be able to act and exercise confident leadership, together with like-minded people! Great importance is attached to your personal qualities. Do you feel like a match? Welcome with your application! Follow Umeå Municipality on Linkedin! About Umeå municipality Umeå municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 employees. The municipality has about 440 managers and the business is divided into eight administrations. Our jobs and our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust and continuous improvement. Umeå is a cultural city in constant development. To meet the target of 200,000 inhabitants by 2050, we need more people working for growth and welfare. We know that diversity enriches and welcome everyone to apply for jobs with us. Over the next ten years, we will be hiring around a thousand people every year. Do you want to join us? Find out what it's like to live in Umeå here: https://www.umea.se/flytta Umeå municipality is part of three administrative areas for Finnish, Meänkieli and Sami www.umea.se/minoriteter. As an employee of Umeå municipality, you can take advantage of a number of benefits. Take part of our benefits https://umea.se/jobbochforetagande/jobbochpraktik/kommunensomarbetsgivare/varaformaner.4.1b4d24fb1752122eb843bf.html Do you sell ads or offer recruitment support? Please do not contact us about it! We select and contact the companies we work with ourselves.