About Us

Hello! Are you our new childcare worker at Fjälldalen Preschool?

We are currently seeking a Sami-speaking childcare worker for our Sami minority language department, Heavdni.

Fjälldalen Preschool is a six-department preschool 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 support our children in their earliest educational experiences and their first steps in lifelong learning—and as an educator, you play a vital role in this journey.

Learn more about what it’s like to work at the preschool: https://gallivare.se/lararjobb

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 and nurturing education where care, development, and learning form a cohesive whole.

As a preschool teacher, you’ll work with your team to design a safe and enriching educational experience for the children at the preschool. The work is challenging, exciting, and creative, and is carried out in close collaboration with your work team and colleagues at the preschool. As a childcare worker, you are part of a work team and participate in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the educational programs offered to the children. You’ll collaborate with the 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 has other training deemed equivalent by the employer) and speaks Sami (such as Northern Sami or Lule Sami).

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 prerequisite 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.

For this position, you must provide an extract from the Swedish Police’s criminal record registry (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/) and present valid identification.

Gällivare Municipality offers you:

• a wellness benefit in the form of strength training, group training, or a day pass to Dundret.
• free access to the pool/swimming.
• You’ll have access to the workplace’s “Well-being Allowance.”
• One wellness hour per week (mental or physical activity).
• membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality’s recreational association).

Work Hours/Duration

Permanent position, 100%. A probationary period may apply.

Salary

Monthly salary—we use individual salary determination. Please indicate your salary expectations in your application. As a Sami-speaking childcare worker in our Sami minority language department, you will also receive a 10% salary supplement.

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. Appointment is contingent upon the position not being filled by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons.

Start date: August/September 2026.

Application deadline: August 10, 2026.

Information

If you have any questions, please contact:

Helena Johansson, Principal, Fjälldalens Preschool

Phone: 0970-81 80 41

Email: helena.johansson@gallivare.se

Union Representatives

Kommunal, tel. 010–4429919

We warmly welcome your application!