About Us

Hello! Are you our new colleague at Fjälldalen Preschool?

Fjälldalen Preschool is a preschool with six classes, located close to nature and the mountains, where you, as an educator, will have a unique opportunity to help shape the preschool of the future.

The preschool opened in January 2025, and we’re now looking for someone who wants to join a wonderful team of colleagues and build a long-term career at the preschool. At the preschool, we meet our children as they begin their first educational experience and take their first steps in lifelong learning—and as an educator, you play a vital role in this process.

Job Responsibilities

The preschool curriculum (Lpfö18) outlines the preschool’s core values and mission and includes goals and guidelines for the work at the preschool. Children in preschool should receive a safe educational experience where care, development, and learning form a cohesive whole. As a childcare worker, you’ll work with your team to design a safe and enriching educational environment for the children at the preschool.

The work is challenging, exciting, and creative, and takes place in close collaboration with your team and colleagues at the preschool. As a childcare worker, you’ll be part of a team and participate in planning, implementing, and evaluating the educational activities offered to the children. You’ll collaborate with your team to provide the children with a fun and educational learning experience.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a certified childcare worker or is currently studying to become one, or who has other training that the employer deems equivalent.

It is important:

• that you are familiar with our guiding document, the Preschool Curriculum (Lpfö18),
• that you are a confident and clear leader, take the initiative easily, are positive, and have faith in children’s diverse abilities,
• that you value trusting relationships with children and guardians and have strong collaboration skills,
• that you utilize pedagogical discussions and pedagogical documentation in your work,
• that you use visual aids and TAKK (signs as an alternative and augmentative means of communication),
• that you are interested in developing the preschool.
• Excellent proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written, is a requirement for this position. Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and suitability for the role.
• Under the National Minority Languages Act, Gällivare Municipality is the administrative municipality for Sami, Meänkieli, and Finnish. Proficiency in any of these languages is considered an asset when applying for employment with Gällivare Municipality.

This position requires an extract from the Police’s Suspicion and Criminal Record Registry, as well as presentation of valid identification.

Work Hours/Duration

Temporary position, full-time: October 5, 2026 – July 2, 2027

Salary

Monthly salary – we use an individualized salary structure. Please include your salary expectations in your application.

Start Date / Application

Please include a cover letter and your resume with your application. Original documents must be presented upon request. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis during the application period, so please do not delay in submitting your application. The appointment is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be filled by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons. Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and suitability.

Start date: October 5, 2026, or as agreed

Application deadline: September 28, 2026

Information

Principal Helena Johansson, tel 0970-81 80 41

Recruiter Ann-Louise Johansson, tel 076 137 80 78

Recruiter Natalia Castro, tel 070 287 37 52

Union representatives

Kommunal, tel: 010-4429919, Gallivare.norrbotten@kommunal.se

Other Information

Gällivare Municipality offers you:

• a wellness benefit in the form of strength training, group exercise, or a day pass to Dundret.
• free swimming.
• you’ll have access to the workplace’s “Well-being Fund.”
• one wellness hour per week
• membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality’s recreational association).

We warmly welcome your application!