{"data":{"id":175637,"slug":"avdelningschef-till-avdelningen-for-internationella-adoptioner","type":"job","title":"Department Manager for the International Adoptions Department","description":"Welcome to the Authority for Family Law and Parenting Support (MFoF)!\n\nThe Authority for Family Law and Parenting Support (MFoF) offers socially important and developmental work in a knowledge-based and dynamic workplace. With us, you contribute to strengthening the conditions for children, parents, and families in Sweden.\n\nMFoF is a knowledge authority in parenting support, family counseling, and family law matters handled by social welfare committees. We are also responsible for ensuring that adoptions to Sweden take place in a legal, safe, and ethically acceptable manner. MFoF respects children's rights in all decisions and actions affecting children, and operations are conducted in close collaboration with other authorities, municipalities, organizations, and research actors. Our employees have diverse professions and backgrounds, and we place great emphasis on collaboration, knowledge exchange, and professional conduct.\n\nMFoF is tasked with promoting equality and equal parenting in its role as a gender equality authority and serves as an LGBTQI-strategic authority. Through our work, we contribute to a more equal society and equal rights and opportunities for LGBTQI individuals.\n\nMFoF has experienced very positive development since the authority relocated to Skellefte\u00e5 in 2018 with new assignments and increasing confidence in our areas of operation. The authority currently has approximately 55 employees. We continue to grow and are now seeking a department manager for the International Adoptions Department.\n\nAs a department manager, you will work in an ambitious and competent team. The department consists of employees with diverse competencies and extensive experience who together work to maintain high quality in the authority's mission delivery.\n\nResponsibilities and Duties\n\nAs a department manager at the Authority for Family Law and Parenting Support, you will have a central role in leading, developing, and monitoring operations within the International Adoptions Department. You are responsible for ensuring that operations are conducted efficiently, with legal certainty, and with high quality in accordance with the authority's mandate, applicable legislation, and agreed-upon goals.\n\nThe role includes leading and developing operations from both an operational and strategic perspective. You are part of the authority's management group and actively contribute to the authority's development through collaboration both internally and externally. The role requires trust-based leadership where you create favorable conditions for employees to develop and contribute to operational results.\n\nThe following duties are included in the role:\n\n- Lead the department consisting of a team of employees.\n- Conduct employee reviews and salary conversations and be responsible for workplace environment matters for direct reports.\n- Manage operations efficiently and with legal certainty.\n- Promote collaboration with other departments.\n- Ensure that governing documents, decided priorities, and other decisions are implemented and that operations are conducted efficiently and with legal certainty.\n- Conduct development work and quality assurance of assignments.\n- Establish and maintain contact with the Government Offices and other collaborative partners regarding current and future government assignments.\n- Externally represent the authority in various national and international forums.\n\nQualification Requirements\n\nWe are seeking someone who has:\n\n- A university degree in law, behavioral science, social work, public health, or experience and qualifications in combination with education that the employer deems equivalent.\n- At least three years of experience in management or leadership roles with personnel, budget, and operational responsibility.\n- Experience as a manager in the public sector.\n- Experience leading qualified employees with diverse competencies.\n- Experience writing, reviewing, assessing, and quality-assuring various types of materials and texts.\n- Experience giving oral presentations.\n- Solid knowledge of legislation relevant to the role, such as the Administrative Procedure Act, the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act, and the Work Environment Act.\n- Excellent knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing.\n- Excellent knowledge of English in speech and writing.\n\nIt is meritorious if you have:\n\n- Experience as a manager at a state authority.\n- Experience handling complex government assignments.\n- Experience working with adoption matters at the national and international level.\n- Experience leading employees remotely by building strong relationships through digital tools, ensuring good information sharing, and promoting effective team collaboration.\n\nYour Personal Qualities\n\nWe are seeking someone who is strategic, has leadership qualities, is results-oriented, communicative, analytical, and has strong collaboration skills.\n\nEmployment\n\nThe position is a permanent full-time role and begins with a six-month probationary period. Start date by agreement. You will work from the office in central Skellefte\u00e5 but have the opportunity to work remotely up to two days per week by agreement with your manager.\n\nApplication\n\nWe welcome your application no later than September 17, 2026. Attach a CV and cover letter and answer the screening questions in the application form. In preparation for the recruitment process, MFoF has determined recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore decline contact from media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.\n\nMFoF processes personal data in connection with job applications submitted to MFoF. Personal data is processed so that MFoF can administer applications and fill the position. Processing for position filling is carried out as part of MFoF's exercise of authority, and other processing is conducted to perform a task of public interest.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Avdelningschef till avdelningen f\u00f6r internationella adoptioner","description_original":"V\u00e4lkommen till oss p\u00e5 Myndigheten f\u00f6r familjer\u00e4tt och f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraskapsst\u00f6d (MFoF)!\nMyndigheten f\u00f6r familjer\u00e4tt och f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraskapsst\u00f6d (MFoF) erbjuder ett samh\u00e4llsviktigt och utvecklande arbete p\u00e5 en kunskapsbaserad och dynamisk arbetsplats. Hos oss bidrar du till att st\u00e4rka f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningarna f\u00f6r barn, f\u00f6r\u00e4ldrar och familjer i Sverige.\nMFoF \u00e4r en kunskapsmyndighet inom f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraskapsst\u00f6d, familjer\u00e5dgivning och socialn\u00e4mndernas familjer\u00e4ttsliga \u00e4renden. Vi ansvarar \u00e4ven f\u00f6r att adoptioner till Sverige sker p\u00e5 ett lagligt, s\u00e4kert och etiskt godtagbart s\u00e4tt. MFoF beaktar barnets r\u00e4ttigheter i alla beslut och \u00e5tg\u00e4rder som p\u00e5verkar barn, och verksamheten bedrivs i n\u00e4ra samverkan med andra myndigheter, kommuner, organisationer och forskningsakt\u00f6rer. V\u00e5ra medarbetare har olika professioner och bakgrunder, och vi l\u00e4gger stor vikt vid samverkan, kunskapsutbyte och ett professionellt bem\u00f6tande.\nMFoF har som uppdrag att fr\u00e4mja j\u00e4mst\u00e4lldhet och ett j\u00e4mst\u00e4llt f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraskap i sin roll som JiM-myndighet samt att vara en hbtqi-strategisk myndighet. Genom v\u00e5rt arbete bidrar vi till ett mer j\u00e4mst\u00e4llt samh\u00e4lle och lika r\u00e4ttigheter och m\u00f6jligheter f\u00f6r hbtqi-personer.\nMFoF har haft en mycket positiv utveckling sedan myndigheten 2018 omlokaliserades till Skellefte\u00e5 med nya uppdrag och allt st\u00f6rre f\u00f6rtroenden inom v\u00e5ra verksamhetsomr\u00e5den. Myndigheten har i dag cirka 55 anst\u00e4llda. Vi forts\u00e4tter v\u00e4xa och s\u00f6ker nu en avdelningschef till avdelningen f\u00f6r internationella adoptioner.\nSom avdelningschef kommer du arbeta i ett ambiti\u00f6st och kompetent team. Avdelningen best\u00e5r av medarbetare med olika kompetenser och bred erfarenhet som tillsammans arbetar f\u00f6r h\u00f6g kvalit\u00e9 i utf\u00f6rande av myndighetens uppdrag.\nAnsvar och arbetsuppgifter\nSom avdelningschef vid Myndigheten f\u00f6r familjer\u00e4tt och f\u00f6r\u00e4ldraskapsst\u00f6d har du en central roll i att leda, utveckla och f\u00f6lja upp verksamheten inom avdelningen f\u00f6r internationella adoptioner. Du ansvarar f\u00f6r att verksamheten bedrivs effektivt, r\u00e4ttss\u00e4kert och med h\u00f6g kvalitet i enlighet med myndighetens uppdrag, g\u00e4llande lagstiftning och beslutade m\u00e5l.\nI rollen ing\u00e5r att leda och utveckla verksamheten ur s\u00e5v\u00e4l ett operativt som ett strategiskt perspektiv. Du ing\u00e5r i myndighetens ledningsgrupp och bidrar aktivt till myndighetens utveckling genom samverkan s\u00e5v\u00e4l internt som externt. Rollen f\u00f6ruts\u00e4tter ett tillitsbaserat ledarskap d\u00e4r du skapar goda f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningar f\u00f6r medarbetare att utvecklas och bidra till verksamhetens resultat.\nF\u00f6ljande arbetsuppgifter ing\u00e5r i rollen:\nLeda avdelningen som best\u00e5r av ett team med medarbetare.\nGenomf\u00f6ra medarbetarsamtal och l\u00f6nes\u00e4ttande samtal samt ha ansvar f\u00f6r arbetsmilj\u00f6uppgifter f\u00f6r underst\u00e4lld personal.\nDriva verksamheten p\u00e5 ett effektivt och r\u00e4ttss\u00e4kert s\u00e4tt.\nFr\u00e4mja samarbete med andra avdelningar.\nTillse att styrdokument, beslutade prioriteringar och andra beslut f\u00e5r genomslag samt att verksamheten bedrivs p\u00e5 ett effektivt och r\u00e4ttss\u00e4kert s\u00e4tt.\nBedriva utvecklingsarbete samt kvalitetss\u00e4kring av uppdrag.\nUppr\u00e4tta och bibeh\u00e5lla kontakt med Regeringskansliet och andra samverkansparter i fr\u00e5gor om nuvarande och framtida regeringsuppdrag.\nExternt representera myndigheten i olika nationella och internationella forum.\n\nKvalifikationskrav\nVi s\u00f6ker dig som har:\nH\u00f6gskoleexamen inom juridik, beteendevetenskap, socialt arbete, folkh\u00e4lsa eller erfarenhet och kvalifikationer i kombination med utbildning som arbetsgivaren bed\u00f6mer som likv\u00e4rdiga.\nMinst tre \u00e5rs erfarenhet av chefs- eller ledaruppdrag med personal-, budget- och verksamhetsansvar.\nErfarenhet som chef i offentlig sektor.\nErfarenhet av att leda kvalificerade medarbetare med olika kompetenser.\nErfarenhet av att skriva, granska, bed\u00f6ma och kvalitetss\u00e4kra olika typer av material och texter.\nErfarenhet av att h\u00e5lla muntliga presentationer.\nGod kunskap om f\u00f6r rollen relevant lagstiftning, s\u00e5som f\u00f6rvaltningslagen, offentlighets- och sekretesslagen samt arbetsmilj\u00f6lagen.\nMycket goda kunskaper i svenska i tal och skrift.\nMycket goda kunskaper i engelska i tal och skrift.\n\nDet \u00e4r meriterande om du har:\nErfarenhet som chef p\u00e5 statlig myndighet.\nErfarenhet av att hantera komplexa regeringsuppdrag.\nErfarenhet av arbete med adoptionsfr\u00e5gor p\u00e5 nationell och internationell niv\u00e5.\nErfarenhet av att leda medarbetare p\u00e5 distans genom att skapa goda relationer via digitala verktyg, s\u00e4kerst\u00e4lla en god informationsdelning och fr\u00e4mja ett v\u00e4lfungerande samarbete i teamet.\n\nDina personliga egenskaper\nVi s\u00f6ker dig som \u00e4r strategisk, har ledaregenskaper, \u00e4r resultatinriktad, kommunikativ, analytisk och har god samarbetsf\u00f6rm\u00e5ga.\nAnst\u00e4llningen\nTj\u00e4nsten \u00e4r en tillsvidareanst\u00e4llning p\u00e5 heltid och inleds med provanst\u00e4llning i sex m\u00e5nader. Tilltr\u00e4de enligt \u00f6verenskommelse. Du utg\u00e5r fr\u00e5n kontoret i centrala Skellefte\u00e5 men har m\u00f6jlighet att arbeta p\u00e5 distans upp till tv\u00e5 dagar i veckan enligt \u00f6verenskommelse med chef.\nAns\u00f6kan\nV\u00e4lkommen med din ans\u00f6kan senast den 17 september 2026. Bifoga CV och ans\u00f6kningsbrev samt besvara urvalsfr\u00e5gorna i ans\u00f6kningsformul\u00e4ret. Inf\u00f6r rekryteringsarbetet har MFoF tagit st\u00e4llning till rekryteringskanaler och marknadsf\u00f6ring. Vi undanber oss d\u00e4rf\u00f6r kontakt med medies\u00e4ljare, rekryteringssajter och liknande.\nMFoF behandlar personuppgifter i samband med att en ans\u00f6kan om arbete skickas in till MFoF. Personuppgifterna behandlas f\u00f6r att MFoF ska kunna administrera ans\u00f6kningarna och tills\u00e4tta tj\u00e4nsten. Behandlingen f\u00f6r tills\u00e4ttning av tj\u00e4nsten sker som ett led i MFoF:s myndighetsut\u00f6vning och \u00f6vrig behandling sker f\u00f6r att utf\u00f6ra en uppgift av allm\u00e4nt intresse.","price":null,"currency":"SEK","status":"active","noindex":true,"location":{"address":null,"full_address":null,"city":"Skellefte\u00e5","country":"SE","latitude":64.749541127938,"longitude":20.950849836792},"metadata":{"region":"V\u00e4sterbottens l\u00e4n","duration":"Tills vidare","employer":"Myndigheten F\u00f6r Familjer\u00e4tt och F\u00f6r\u00e4ldraskapsst\u00f6","postcode":"93131","positions":1,"profession":"Avdelningschef, statlig","salary_type":"Fast m\u00e5nads- vecko- eller timl\u00f6n","employer_url":"https:\/\/mfof.se\/","scope_of_work":"100\u2013100 %","working_hours":"Heltid","contact_person":"Carolina Holting","employment_type":"full_time","occupation_field":"Chefer och verksamhetsledare","employer_workplace":"Myndigheten f\u00f6r familjer\u00e4tt och f\u00f6r\u00e4ldrarskasst\u00f6d (MFoF)","experience_required":true,"employment_type_label":"Vanlig anst\u00e4llning"},"user_id":null,"is_sponsored":false,"views_count":9,"ai_views_count":9,"bot_views_count":2,"ai_vendor_counts":{"other":4,"openai":2,"anthropic":3},"visibility":"public","submission_source":null,"submission_ai_name":null,"has_owner_email":true,"can_contact_owner":true,"phone":"+46101901109","owner_email":"Carolina.Holting@mfof.se","images":[],"published_at":"2026-08-27T08:43:48+00:00","expires_at":"2026-09-17T23:59:59+00:00","created_at":"2026-08-28T03:20:03+00:00","updated_at":"2026-09-16T02:49:56+00:00"}}