School librarian for Kiruna municipality
Kiruna, Sverige
Type of Employment Full-time
Job position Librarian
Work model On location
Application due date 16 June 2025
Are you the one?
One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are the teacher who makes your little brother read his first words and the after-school staff who make you laugh after school. We are the childminder who makes someone grow every day and the librarian who brings literature close. Together we fight for knowledge, for the creation of meaning and for the fun everyday life of children and young people. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for the future in Kiruna municipality? Come and be part of the community at the culture and education administration. WORK TASKS The primary school in Kiruna municipality consists of 12 schools, half of which are located in the central town. Kiruna City Library consists of the city library, bookmobile and branches in Svappavaara, Vittangi and Karesuando. Your workplace is located in Kiruna City Library, where you will work in close cooperation with the school library administrator, children's and young people's librarian and the program manager for children and young people. You are responsible for building up school library activities together with the school library administrator. You conduct educational and reading promotion activities for teachers and students based on a developed collaboration agreement with activities that can take place in the library, in the classroom and also digitally. As a school librarian, you also work pedagogically with media and information literacy and general digital literacy. You thus support the school in source-critical teaching. You plan and implement book talks and teaching, and arrange author visits for different year groups. You hold annual meetings for school library representatives, and together with the school library administrator, you are responsible for all communication with teachers and principals. You are responsible for purchasing, sorting and media planning for the school library. Together with colleagues, you will introduce pupils to library use and the world of books. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for people with a university degree in library and information science. You should also have a good knowledge of literature, high digital skills and an interest in digital communication. We also look for good teaching skills, initiative and a clear commitment to working with children and young people. You have good collaboration and organizational skills. We also expect you to be fluent in Swedish with the ability to express yourself well in speech and writing. Experience as a school librarian is an advantage. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. B-driving license is a requirement. We offer: The opportunity to help build a new school library service from scratch. To be part of a dedicated team that also includes the school library administrator, children's and youth librarian and program manager for children and young people. We apply a six-month probationary period. 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 work environment and stimulating tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits such as free health care where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities, 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 advertisers or other sellers of recruitment services.