Project Manager for the Unit of Digitalization and Innovation
Workplace: Härnösand, Sverige
Expires: August 11, 2025
Lead and manage digital development projects to support strategic digitalization initiatives in a government agency focused on special education, collaborating closely with core operations, IT, and external suppliers to create accessible and innovative digital solutions.
Main requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree relevant to the position, e.g., technology, systems science, digitalization, or business development
  • At least three years of experience managing digital development projects
  • At least three years of experience leading agile teams consisting of solution architects, designers, developers, and testers
  • Strong collaboration skills and experience working in cross-functional teams
  • Ability to understand user, business needs, and technical solutions
  • Documented experience working strategically and practically to develop business through digitalization
  • Proficiency in spoken and written Swedish, including sign language
  • Good ability to explain technical possibilities and limitations
  • Good IT skills
Responsibilities:
  • Lead and manage one or more digital development projects as part of agency-wide strategic digitalization
  • Work closely with core operations, IT, and external suppliers
  • Plan, follow up, and secure progress in digital development assignments and projects
  • Drive project from initiation through directives creation, planning, requirement specification, procurement if needed, development, and implementation
  • Identify needs and opportunities, and inspire development of digital solutions in line with business development
  • Lead agile teams
  • Conduct workshops to gather requirements
  • Participate in procurement processes
  • Lead meetings with suppliers to specify, estimate, discuss, order, and follow up development and solutions
  • Coordinate and plan alongside parallel projects
  • Report progress and results to steering groups and receiving units
  • Plan testing activities
  • Receive deliveries and ensure they meet expectations
  • Plan training and rollout and participate in change management
  • Prepare for handover to maintenance
Required hard skills:
  • Project management of digital development projects
  • Leading agile teams
  • Strategic and practical digital business development
  • Technical knowledge to explain possibilities and limitations
  • IT proficiency
  • Requirement gathering and needs analysis
  • Workshop facilitation
Recommended hard skills:
  • Project management certification
  • Scrum certification
  • Strong ability to identify and realize digitalization opportunities
  • Experience in business development and change management
  • Experience managing projects in large organizations
  • Knowledge of service design
  • Knowledge in system development and maintenance
Soft skills:
  • Structured and independent planning and prioritization
  • Driven and proactive with initiative and responsibility
  • Good communication to create engagement and anchor digital solutions and changes
  • Receptive and collaborative with ability to translate business needs into digital solutions
  • Flexible and pragmatic problem-solver capable of handling unexpected challenges legally and practically
  • Humble and respectful of laws, guidelines, and public structures while driving change
Frameworks:
  • Scrum
Natural languages:
  • Swedish (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
  • Commitment to diversity and equal value
  • Respect for public sector frameworks
  • Collaboration in cross-functional teams
  • Sustainability focus
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