{"data":{"id":161866,"slug":"forskning-och-utvecklingsledare-till-ny-fou-enhet-2","type":"job","title":"Research and Development Manager for New R&D Unit","description":"Skaraborgs Kommunalf\u00f6rbund is a collaboration and development organization for Skaraborg's 15 municipalities. By combining strength, knowledge, and perspectives, we drive shared development initiatives that have greater impact than what each municipality can achieve on its own.\n\nWith us, you work closely with both political and administrative levels in an environment where dialogue, trust, and shared responsibility are central. We strengthen the municipalities' long-term development capacity and convert shared ideas into concrete value.\n\nThe work is varied, meaningful, and developmental. The federation functions as a motor, enabler, and unifying force on issues where municipalities need to find common solutions.\n\nWithin the welfare development area, we work on cross-municipal issues related to social services, municipal health and medical care, and public health.\n\nThe new social services law places increased demands on evidence, proven experience, follow-up, and analysis. Therefore, the board has decided to establish a joint R&D unit for Skaraborg's municipalities.\n\nNow we are looking for you to lead this work.\n\n1 position(s).\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nAs an R&D manager, you will have a key role in building a new R&D function for Skaraborg's municipalities. The assignment has great strategic significance and involves making research, proven experience, and operations-based knowledge a natural part of the municipalities' development work.\n\nYou develop structures, working methods, and collaborations that strengthen the municipalities' ability to work systematically with knowledge, analysis, and learning. An important part is building sustainable relationships with universities and other knowledge actors.\n\nThe assignment involves bringing together municipalities, academia, and other actors around shared challenges and creating forms for long-term collaboration. You lead development and collaboration processes and contribute to new working methods gaining traction.\n\nThis is a role with great opportunity to influence direction, working methods, and priorities in close dialogue with the municipalities, colleagues at the federation, and other collaboration partners.\n\nThe role includes:\n\n\t\u2022 initiate, lead, and coordinate the development of the R&D unit together with the municipalities and colleagues at the municipal federation\n\t\u2022 develop long-term collaborations with universities and other knowledge actors\n\t\u2022 create structures for how research can be applied in practice and contribute to operational development\n\t\u2022 support municipalities in work with knowledge-based working methods, follow-up, and analysis\n\t\u2022 process lead networks and collaboration arenas within the welfare area\n\t\u2022 contribute to identifying shared development needs and initiating relevant initiatives\n\t\u2022 monitor the external environment for research, policy, and good examples, and contribute to skills development\n\t\u2022 represent Skaraborg in regional and national contexts related to R&D\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\nWe are looking for someone who has:\n\n\t\u2022 experience driving or coordinating development work, projects, or processes\n\t\u2022 experience collaborating between different organizations and actors\n\t\u2022 experience working within social services or municipal health and medical care\n\t\u2022 relevant academic education at least at bachelor's level\n\t\u2022 experience with research-related work or collaboration between academia and practice\n\t\u2022 very good ability to communicate and collaborate\n\nIt is a merit if you have:\n\n\t\u2022 relevant academic education at master's or equivalent level\n\t\u2022 experience building and developing networks or collaboration structures\n\t\u2022 knowledge of knowledge management within the welfare area\n\t\u2022 research education\n\nYou may have your background from, for example, a municipality, region, university, government agency, or research institute.\n\nTo succeed in this role, you need the ability to build trusting and long-term relationships. You thrive in settings where multiple actors need to collaborate and easily create structure and direction in complex environments.\n\nYou are initiative-taking and persistent, with the ability to drive work forward together with others. You are receptive to different perspectives and can adapt your working method according to context and needs.\n\nEmployment form: Permanent employment.\nDuration: Permanent, start date: Start date by agreement.\n\nWe offer you a strategic and development-focused assignment with great opportunity to influence how R&D work within social services and municipal health and medical care develops in Skaraborg.\n\nYou will become part of an organization with a strong collaboration profile, engaged colleagues, and close connection to the municipalities' leadership.\n\nThe workplace is an activity-based office in central Sk\u00f6vde, with the possibility of some remote work. We offer flexible working arrangements and good opportunities for skills development.\n\nEqual and equitable operations are very important to us. Different backgrounds and affiliations we see as an asset. Our workplaces should also be free from discriminatory structures.\n\nWe are happy to receive calls from anyone interested in the job, but we decline those selling ads and recruitment services.\n\nIf you have protected personal information, you should contact the contact person specified in the ad.\n\nWant to know more about what Skaraborg has to offer in terms of housing, leisure activities, and experiences? Visit livetiskaraborg.se","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Forskning- och utvecklingsledare till ny FoU-enhet","description_original":"Skaraborgs Kommunalf\u00f6rbund \u00e4r en samverkans- och utvecklingsorganisation f\u00f6r Skaraborgs 15 kommuner. Genom att samla kraft, kunskap och perspektiv driver vi gemensamma utvecklingsfr\u00e5gor som f\u00e5r st\u00f6rre genomslag \u00e4n vad varje kommun kan \u00e5stadkomma var f\u00f6r sig.\n\nHos oss arbetar du n\u00e4ra b\u00e5de politisk och tj\u00e4nstepersonsniv\u00e5 i en milj\u00f6 d\u00e4r dialog, tillit och gemensamt ansvarstagande \u00e4r centralt. Vi st\u00e4rker kommunernas l\u00e5ngsiktiga utvecklingsf\u00f6rm\u00e5ga och oms\u00e4tter gemensamma id\u00e9er till konkret nytta.\n\nArbetet \u00e4r varierat, meningsfullt och utvecklande. F\u00f6rbundet fungerar som motor, m\u00f6jligg\u00f6rare och sammanh\u00e5llande kraft i fr\u00e5gor d\u00e4r kommunerna beh\u00f6ver hitta gemensamma l\u00f6sningar.\n\nInom utvecklingsomr\u00e5de v\u00e4lf\u00e4rd arbetar vi med kommun\u00f6vergripande fr\u00e5gor som r\u00f6r socialtj\u00e4nst, kommunal h\u00e4lso- och sjukv\u00e5rd samt folkh\u00e4lsa.\n\nDen nya socialtj\u00e4nstlagen st\u00e4ller \u00f6kade krav p\u00e5 evidens, bepr\u00f6vad erfarenhet, uppf\u00f6ljning och analys. D\u00e4rf\u00f6r har direktionen beslutat att inr\u00e4tta en gemensam FoU-enhet f\u00f6r Skaraborgs kommuner.\n\nNu s\u00f6ker vi dig som vill leda arbetet.\r\n\r\n1 plats(er). \r\n\r\nARBETSUPPGIFTER\r\nSom FoU-ledare f\u00e5r du en nyckelroll i att bygga upp en ny FoU-funktion f\u00f6r Skaraborgs kommuner. Uppdraget har stor strategisk betydelse och handlar om att g\u00f6ra forskning, bepr\u00f6vad erfarenhet och verksamhetsn\u00e4ra kunskap till en naturlig del av kommunernas utvecklingsarbete.\n\nDu utvecklar strukturer, arbetss\u00e4tt och samarbeten som st\u00e4rker kommunernas f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att arbeta systematiskt med kunskap, analys och l\u00e4rande. En viktig del \u00e4r att bygga h\u00e5llbara relationer med l\u00e4ros\u00e4ten och andra kunskapsakt\u00f6rer.\n\nUppdraget inneb\u00e4r att samla kommuner, akademi och andra akt\u00f6rer kring gemensamma utmaningar och skapa former f\u00f6r l\u00e5ngsiktig samverkan. Du leder utvecklings- och samverkansprocesser och bidrar till att nya arbetss\u00e4tt f\u00e5r genomslag.\n\nDet h\u00e4r \u00e4r en roll med stor m\u00f6jlighet att p\u00e5verka inriktning, arbetss\u00e4tt och prioriteringar  i n\u00e4ra dialog med kommunerna, kollegorna inom f\u00f6rbundet och andra samarbetspartners.\n\nI rollen ing\u00e5r att:\n\n\t\u2022 initiera, leda och samordna uppbyggnaden av FoU-enheten tillsammans med kommunerna och med kollegorna p\u00e5 kommunalf\u00f6rbundet\n\t\u2022 utveckla l\u00e5ngsiktiga samarbeten med l\u00e4ros\u00e4ten och andra kunskapsakt\u00f6rer\n\t\u2022 skapa strukturer f\u00f6r hur forskning kan oms\u00e4ttas i praktiken och bidra till verksamhetsutveckling\n\t\u2022 st\u00f6dja kommunerna i arbete med kunskapsbaserade arbetss\u00e4tt, uppf\u00f6ljning och analys\n\t\u2022 processleda n\u00e4tverk och samverkansarenor inom omr\u00e5det v\u00e4lf\u00e4rd\n\t\u2022 bidra till att identifiera gemensamma utvecklingsbehov och initiera relevanta insatser\n\t\u2022 omv\u00e4rldsbevaka forskning, policy och goda exempel samt bidra till kompetensutveckling\n\t\u2022 representera Skaraborg i regionala och nationella sammanhang kopplat till FoU\r\n\r\nKVALIFIKATIONER\r\nVi s\u00f6ker dig som har:\n\n\t\u2022 erfarenhet av att driva eller koordinera utvecklingsarbete, projekt eller processer\n\t\u2022 erfarenhet av samverkan mellan olika organisationer och akt\u00f6rer\n\t\u2022 erfarenhet av arbete inom socialtj\u00e4nst eller kommunal h\u00e4lso- och sjukv\u00e5rd\n\t\u2022 relevant akademisk utbildning p\u00e5 minst kandidatniv\u00e5\n\t\u2022 erfarenhet av forskningsn\u00e4ra arbete eller samverkan mellan akademi och praktik\n\t\u2022 mycket god f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att kommunicera och samarbeta\n\nDet \u00e4r meriterande om du har:\n\n\t\u2022 relevant akademisk utbildning p\u00e5 master- eller magisterniv\u00e5\n\t\u2022 erfarenhet av att bygga och utveckla n\u00e4tverk eller samverkansstrukturer\n\t\u2022 k\u00e4nnedom om kunskapsstyrning inom v\u00e4lf\u00e4rdsomr\u00e5det\n\t\u2022 forskarutbildning\n\nDu kan ha din bakgrund fr\u00e5n exempelvis kommun, region, l\u00e4ros\u00e4te, myndighet eller forskningsinstitut.\n\nF\u00f6r att lyckas i rollen beh\u00f6ver du ha f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att bygga f\u00f6rtroendefulla och l\u00e5ngsiktiga relationer. Du trivs i sammanhang d\u00e4r m\u00e5nga akt\u00f6rer beh\u00f6ver samverka och har l\u00e4tt f\u00f6r att skapa struktur och riktning i komplexa milj\u00f6er.\n\nDu \u00e4r initiativtagande och uth\u00e5llig, med f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att driva arbete fram\u00e5t tillsammans med andra. Du \u00e4r lyh\u00f6rd f\u00f6r olika perspektiv och kan anpassa ditt arbetss\u00e4tt efter sammanhang och behov.\r\n\r\nAnst\u00e4llningsform: Tillsvidareanst\u00e4llning.\r\nVaraktighet: Tillsvidare, tilltr\u00e4de: Tilltr\u00e4de enligt \u00f6verenskommelse.\r\n\r\nVi erbjuder dig ett strategiskt och utvecklingsinriktat uppdrag med stor m\u00f6jlighet att p\u00e5verka hur FoU-arbetet inom socialtj\u00e4nst och kommunal h\u00e4lso- och sjukv\u00e5rd utvecklas i Skaraborg.\n\nDu blir en del av en organisation med stark samverkansprofil, engagerade kollegor och n\u00e4ra koppling till kommunernas ledningar.\n\nArbetsplatsen \u00e4r ett aktivitetsbaserat kontor i centrala Sk\u00f6vde, med m\u00f6jlighet till visst distansarbete. Vi erbjuder flexibla arbetsformer och goda m\u00f6jligheter till kompetensutveckling.\n\nJ\u00e4mst\u00e4llda och j\u00e4mlika verksamheter \u00e4r v\u00e4ldigt viktigt f\u00f6r oss. Olika bakgrunder och tillh\u00f6righeter ser vi som en tillg\u00e5ng. V\u00e5ra arbetsplatser ska ocks\u00e5 vara fria fr\u00e5n diskriminerande strukturer.\n\nVi tar g\u00e4rna emot samtal fr\u00e5n dig som \u00e4r intresserad av jobbet, men vi tackar nej till dig som s\u00e4ljer annonser och rekryteringstj\u00e4nster.\n\nHar du skyddade personuppgifter ska du kontakta den kontaktperson som finns angiven i annonsen.\n\nVill du veta mer om vad Skaraborg har att erbjuda i form av boende, fritidsaktiviteter och upplevelser? 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