The City of Kokkola and its group companies employ a total of approximately 2,400 professionals from different fields. Together, we develop the local services, strengthen the vitality of Kokkola and ensure that the everyday life of our residents flows smoothly. We value each other, keep our promises and serve our residents the best we can. We create a common service culture for the workplace communities and act respectfully and responsibly. Welcome!

We support the combining of work and private life. We offer employee benefits such as extensive occupational health care, ePassi (culture, sport and massage), employee bike and other employee benefits. We support independent study. In many of our expert tasks, you can work remotely partially.

We employ for both permanent and fixed-term positions. In addition, we take on temps throughout the year, especially to the education services and the early childhood education and care services.

The City of Kokkola is committed to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion and these have also been added to the city strategy. Promoting diversity and equitable treatment are skills that are important for anyone working for the City of Kokkola and for the city’s prosperity. We use anonymous recruitment in some of our vacancies. The aim of anonymous recruitment is to create a fairer and more equitable recruitment process where the focus lies on skills and qualifications and equal treatment of candidates.