About the project
RFSL Stockholm has been granted project funding from Arvsfonden for the project Children of our time. The aim of the project is to empower children living in rainbow families by offering their parents social, empowering and supportive activities as well as access to practical, medical and legal information relevant to LGBTQ parenting. By rainbow family we mean a family where at least one of the adult family members defines themselves as LGBTQ. The project also aims to increase the knowledge of family formation outside the heteronorm among a number of key people who meet rainbow families in their professional role. The target group for this training initiative will be staff in social services, BVC, MVC and maternity care in Stockholm County. We are now looking for project managers for the first year of the project.
About the service
The position includes developing, setting up and continuously evaluating a range of social, supportive and informative activities for children and adults living in different types of rainbow families. It also includes building a website with practical, medical and legal information relevant to LGBTQ parenting. The service also includes developing a pedagogical approach for the project's educational efforts, conducting the training and developing a procedure for evaluation and follow-up of the educational efforts.
The project will be led by two project managers who will work very closely together during the course of the project and will be jointly responsible for managing the project. This will involve applying for and accounting for project funds and seeking new avenues for funding.
Prior to the project, a survey was conducted with the target group of LGBTQ people in Stockholm who are/want to become parents, which showed that rainbow families consisting of two women and their common children are clearly overrepresented among the project's target group. The project leaders will therefore have an active role in highlighting and making visible other types of rainbow families in all parts of the project.
Requirements
In order to apply for the post you must:
- Have experience working as a project manager in project-based work.
- Have experience in working in a process-oriented way with groups.
- Support RFSL Stockholm's statutes (link) and the RFSL Program of Principles (link).
- Have knowledge of LGBTQ people's opportunities for parenthood based on legal and physical conditions.
- Have knowledge of norm-critical work.
- Have experience in text communication and the production of text-based information dissemination.
- Feel comfortable working in Swedish and English.
It is an advantage if you:
- Have experiences of parenting outside the heterosexual norm; these experiences may be personal and/or acquired through work or study.
- Has experience in training based on norm-critical pedagogy.
- Has experience in motivating and engaging others.
- Experience working on issues related to fertility and reproductive medicine.
- Has experience in website development.
To enjoy the job, we believe you need to thrive on varied and changing tasks, and on working closely with colleagues.
Recruitment process
The application is made on a special form that you fill in and send by mail to re*********@************sl.se. You can find the form here:Application form Children of our time
Mark the email ”Children of our time”
ATTENTION! Applications in other formats are processed EJ.
The deadline for applications is 14/4-2014. But please send your application as soon as possible.
The forms will be anonymized, checked against the job description and the competence requirements of the position and a first selection will be made.
Those who progress from this selection will be given a work sample in the form of cases, i.e. thinking scenarios dealing with tasks that the project manager will have. They will be answered in writing and after a further selection will be invited for interviews.
Terms and conditions
100% visstidsanställning med möjlighet till förlängning, med start i maj 2014 till 31 december 2014 med möjlighet till förlängning.
At RFSL Stockholm we have a collective agreement, 37.5 hour work week, 30 days vacation, wellness hour and wellness allowance.
Questions about the service will be answered by Sanna Frost: said*********@************sl.se
Trade union questions will be answered by Jojo Stenberg: yes***********@************sl.se
