Operational plan for the Human Resources Office

This is the operational plan for the HR Office 2026.

Remit and responsibilities

The Human Resources Office (HRA) provides strategic and Professional Services to the university management and core operations and is responsible for standardising and developing employer policy and HR processes at KI. This covers areas such as ​labour law, work environment and health, laboratory safety, equal opportunities and gender equality integration, recruitment of senior teaching positions and docents, skills supply, payroll management and local collective agreements.​

Leadership development for a dialogue-based approach at all levels (A1)

  • Strengthening KI's management teams through management team development​
  • Review and, in the long term, introduction of revised skills development for managers​

Long-term and systematic work on dimensioning, recruitment and skills provision (C1)

  • Review and introduction of new qualification requirements for teaching positions and subsequent decisions on new employment regulations and instructions for the employment regulations for teachers at KI​
  • Introduction of three new combined positions (lecturer, senior lecturer, assistant lecturer)​
  • Collect and secure data information for the production of documentation on current and future competence needs​

An efficient and quality-assured process for the recruitment of professors and lecturers (C2)

  • Digitisation of the process for senior teaching positions​

Streamlining and quality assurance of HR operations

  • Procurement and implementation of a new chemical management system​
  • Conducting employee surveys and reporting back to KI management and employees ​
  • Conduct a preliminary study of HR/payroll systems​
  • Conduct a preliminary study of a Learning Management System (LMS) for employees​
  • Initiate mapping and definition of managerial positions and roles​
  • Establishment and implementation of a strengthened Faculty Board and its sub-bodies​
  • Review processes for automation​

Coordination and development of the HR department's activities

  • Integration of GVS local HR support 

Environment focus area

  • Continued integration of KI's environmental policy within the framework of the department's mission. ​
  • Procurement and implementation of a new chemical management system​
  • Digitisation of the process for senior teaching positions​
  • Overall responsibility for employer issues and salary management​
  • Responsibility for and operation of two gyms​
  • HR objects: Primula, Varbi, HR archive, HR pulse, Wondr, IA system, pre- and onboarding, WinLAS, KLARA.

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  • Academic employment
  • Labour law and health and safety
  • Skills supply
  • Payroll and controlling

SEK 102 million