Preschool teacher for preschool team
Kiruna, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Preschool teachers
Work model On location
Application due date 20 August 2025
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In Kiruna you can experience everything from a magnificent mountain world to an exciting cultural life, from the midnight sun to the northern lights, from snow-filled winters to light-filled summers. Kiruna municipality is Sweden's northernmost city, which we are now moving to. Kiruna is therefore in an exciting position and there is great confidence in the future. Our employees are our most important resource and we are looking for you who want to help ensure that Kiruna municipality's operations maintain a high quality with the residents in focus. We are each other's work environment and we strive for a climate characterized by our values RASK where respect, responsibility and collaboration in Kiruna municipality are the key words. Kiruna municipality has a total of 12 primary schools, geographically spread across the municipality. The task of primary schools is to provide pupils with knowledge and values and develop their ability to acquire them. We prepare our pupils for active life choices in the future. Kiruna municipality has a total of 21 preschools geographically spread across the municipality. Usually the preschools have two to three departments, but there are also smaller preschools. The largest has five departments. The preschool's task is to stimulate children's development and learning and to offer them safe care. Our activities are always based on the needs of the child. We have secure employment with good benefits and offer you the opportunity to develop both personally and professionally. JOB DESCRIPTION As a preschool teacher in the team, you will work with leading teaching at preschools that lack regular preschool teachers. In the assignment, you will have at least two preschools at a time and work on a semester basis at these preschools. The assignment means that you will have vacation duty. In addition to the assignment as a preschool teacher, the following general assignments apply to preschool teachers in work teams, under the leadership of the principal, you will, among other things: - Supervise teams to ensure that teaching takes place according to the curriculum objectives. - Support/coach teams to develop and work for a high and equal quality in the activities. - Lead identified processes that develop learning and contribute to goal achievement. - Work in a group of children to teach both planned and spontaneous lessons and to be able to take advantage of the children's interests and promote their participation in teaching. - Work in a group of children to be a good role model in the preschool during all the moments that take place in the preschool's everyday life. - Keep abreast of current research and disseminate it in their activities/teaching. - Work to ensure that teaching is based on scientific principles and proven experience. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are a licensed preschool teacher. You have good collaboration skills and are independent, proactive and goal-oriented. A positive attitude is a prerequisite. You have an interest in developing new working methods and sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues. You must also have demonstrated a particularly good ability to improve the achievement of objectives and a strong interest in developing early childhood education. You must also be assessed by the principal as being particularly qualified for teaching and teaching-related tasks and have good experience of early childhood education. You have a particularly good ability to drive the development of teaching and learning, have an interest in taking part in current research in areas relevant to teaching in preschool and an ambition to link theory and practice. You should also have the ability to supervise others in a collegial learning with good results and the ability to work systematically with evaluation, analysis and follow-up. You should have worked at least 5 years as a preschool teacher. We attach great importance to personal suitability. We would like you to attach your degree certificate and ID to your application, as well as any other information you consider important. Criminal record: As a result of the law on suitability checks, you must be able to present an extract from the police criminal record when you are employed. Order one directly when you submit your application, via the link https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623 OTHER To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the key words. We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities up to SEK 5000 / year, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to exchange salary for days off. We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages. Kiruna municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore refrains from contacting advertisement sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.