Public Services

Rana Municipality

Rana municipality, with its 2,200 employees, is the largest workplace in the municipality. In Norway, the municipalities are required to administer and perform various tasks:
 Kindergarten
 Primary school
 Health and welfare: for elders, handicapped and other with nursing and care needs.
 City development and technical tasks
 Social services such as child welfare and integration
 Culture and sports: (libraries, cultural schools, churches
 Administration, economy, and politics: administrative positions, case processing, consulting, development tasks and operations are carried out in various subject areas. Finance, personnel, and ICT are important support functions.
Thus, the municipality offers several different jobs.
Rana is an exciting and modern municipality with a high level of activity, with the aim to provide the best possible service to the city’s population.

Rana Municipality

Photo: Rana Municipality

Rana Culture School

The culture school is a arena for cultural leisure activities e. The school has 20 staff and about 400 pupils, taking classes in music, visual arts, and theatre. The employees teach in visual arts, theatre, instruments and music theory. Students can receive instruction either alone or in groups.

Rana Culture School

Photo: Rana Culture School

Rana Development Agency

Rana Development Agency is the Rana Municipality’s business agency, and their vision is to be the region’s foremost partner to give direction and power for sustainable growth.
The company’s most important task is to facilitate new business activities and help to improve the framework conditions for businesses. Rana Municipality has a growth vision, that Mo i Rana shall be an engine for regional growth and development, and that this will be fulfilled through new establishments and relocation to Helgeland.
The company will develop and secure existing businesses and welcome new ones, with emphasis on long-term profitability. By offering free consultations as part of the start-up service as well as offering assistance that contribute to growth and development for companies in the region.
Currently the agency is involved in several important projects, ranging from sustainable city development and large infrastructure projects to green industries and tourism.

Rana Development Agency

Photo: Rana Development Agency

The National Library

The National Library is both located in Oslo and in Mo i Rana.
The National Library is one of the largest and most important cultural institutions in the country. It collects and acts as guardian for what is published in Norway within all types of media, including books, magazines, newspapers, music, film, photography, music, film, magazines, broadcasting, and online publications. Its main task is to preserve “the past for the future”.
Hence, the institution present itself as a modern library, with both a physical presence and a digital appearance.

The National Library

Photo: The National Library

The National Collection Agency

The Norwegian National Collection Agency (NCA) is an agency organized under the Norwegian Tax Administration. The NCA’s task is to collect on various state claims. The Agency employs approx. 370 people in Mo i Rana.
Main tasks: written and oral case processing and counselling. They also work with record keeping, mail processing, registration of requirements and document handling.

The National Collection Agency

Photo: The Norwegian Tax Agency

The Norwegian Welfare Administration (NAV)

NAV is the Norwegian public welfare agency, and is responsible for administrating programs such as unemployment benefits, pensions, child benefits etc.
In Mo i Rana NAV has two departments: NAV economic support and NAV service centre. In total these departments have 235 employees, with different backgrounds: sociologists, social scientists, lawyers, humanists, economists, educators and others with a university or college background.

The Norwegian Welfare Administration

Photo: NAV Nordland

The Norwegian Health Economics Administration (Helfo)

Helfo is the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs external agency. Its responsibilities include making payments from the National Insurance scheme to healthcare providers and suppliers
Helfo has a department in Mo i Rana.

Helfo

Photo: Helfo