Jokkmokk is a municipality with an eye on the future! We are a place where community and responsibility are at the center, where your skills and ideas can be part of shaping the way forward. If you value a high quality of life with proximity to both nature and community, Jokkmokk offers a rich cultural life and affordable leisure opportunities to experience. Welcome to a municipality that combines drive and helpfulness - here you can help create something new. The Children and Education Department is responsible for preschool, after-school care, compulsory school and adapted compulsory school grades F-9. In total, we are about 120 people who work to provide good activities for our children and students and prepare them for the future. As a staff member in our department, you work with us to create the conditions for children and pupils to have a desire to learn and the opportunity to succeed. Within the Children and Education Department, development work is underway to achieve increased goal attainment, form a sustainable organization with a good working environment that can meet the challenges facing preschool and school. We are looking for a principal for our middle and upper secondary school. Östra skolan is since the fall of 2023 a newly established grades 4-9 school with about 200 students. In the spring of 2023, the school was renovated and adapted to meet current needs. WORK TASKS As principal, you are responsible for operations, staff, work environment and finances within your organization. To help you, you have a school administrator. You will work in close collaboration with the management team, student health and the school's first teacher. Together with the other principals and quality developers, you will be part of a central management team led by the Head of School. Support is also provided by the Business Economist and HR Strategist. In the role of headteacher, you carry out active systematic quality work that focuses on how you can create the conditions for staff to offer pupils a high-quality school. You are responsible for ensuring that activities are developed in accordance with the Education Act, curriculum and other policy documents' goals and intentions. As a principal, you have a broad mandate and responsibility to lead and organize your school. You drive development forward, and inspire your staff to contribute and be co-leaders in this work. In your role as principal, you lead your school with well-developed structures and you create good contexts for students, staff and guardians. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have a university degree in education. It is an advantage if you have completed the principal training or other leadership training and have experience of working as a principal or have experience of other types of leadership assignments. OTHER Jokkmokk municipality strives for gender balance and ethnic and cultural diversity in our operations. Knowledge of the Sami language and culture is seen as an asset. Our core values aim to set out the values that should permeate all activities in Jokkmokk municipality, where our key words are respect, equal value, responsibility, courage, commitment and competence. For those offered employment in the school, an extract from the National Police Board's criminal record is required under the Register Control Act. In order to ensure the quality of our recruitment process and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link "Apply here" and not via e-mail or paper format. To staffing, agency and recruitment companies and to you as a salesperson: We kindly but firmly exclude staffing and recruitment agencies as well as other external actors and vendors from further job advertisements. The salary range for this position is between 49 - 55 000 SEK/month. We apply individual salary setting based on your experience and skills. Welcome with your application!