Preschool Teacher at Gällivare

Type of Employment Full-time

Job position Preschool Teacher

Work model On location

Application due date 2 November 2026

Sami-speaking teacher for the Fjälldalen Preschool

Gällivare, Sverige

Type of Employment Full-time

Job position Preschool Teacher

Work model On location

Application due date 2 November 2026

Are you the one?

About Us

Hello! Are you our new teacher at Fjälldalens Preschool?

We are now looking for a Sámi-speaking teacher for our Sámi minority language department, Heavdni

Fjälldalen Preschool is a preschool with six departments, located close to nature and the mountains, where you, as a teacher, 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 journey.

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Job Responsibilities

The preschool curriculum (Lpfö18) describes 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 your team to provide the children with a fun and educational learning experience.

As a preschool teacher, you’ll be part of a team and will be responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating the educational programs offered to the children. You will collaborate with the work team to provide the children with a fun and educational learning experience. As a preschool teacher, you have a special responsibility to lead the goal-oriented processes and, in your teaching, ensure that:

care, development, and learning form a cohesive whole; planning and implementation are based on the curriculum and on the knowledge and experiences the children have previously acquired,
spontaneously arising activities and interests, as well as everyday activities and routines in preschool, become part of the teaching, and
developing educational content and environments that inspire development and learning, challenge and stimulate the children’s interest and curiosity, and hold their attention.

As a Sámi-speaking preschool teacher, you will work in our Sámi minority language department, Heavdni, and focus on strengthening the children’s Sámi language and Sámi culture. We strive to ensure that the Sámi language is integrated into the children’s daily lives and into the various situations they encounter at preschool.

Qualifications

We are looking for a licensed preschool teacher or childcare worker who speaks Sami (such as Lule Sami or Northern Sami).

It is important:

that you are thoroughly familiar with the curriculum (Lpfö18),
that you are a confident and clear leader, take initiative, are positive, and have faith in children’s diverse abilities,
that you have knowledge of and use various teaching tools,
that you have trusting relationships with children and guardians, and that you have strong collaboration skills. Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and suitability for the role.
that you use pedagogical conversations and pedagogical documentation in your work,
that you use visual aids and TAKK (signs as alternative and augmentative communication),
that you develop and drive the preschool forward in accordance with the curriculum.
Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a prerequisite for this position.
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 Police’s Suspicion and Criminal Record Registry, as well as present a valid ID card indicating your citizenship and a valid work permit.

Gällivare Municipality offers you:

a wellness benefit in the form of strength training, group exercise, or a day pass to Dundret.
free access to the pool/swimming.
You’ll have access to the workplace’s “Well-being Allowance.”
One hour of wellness activities per week
Membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality’s Recreational Association).