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About Us

Are you ready to take on the role of church musician in a progressive congregation? Are you passionate about leading an active and varied choir and music life and taking it to new heights?

Mora Parish offers an inspiring and pleasant workplace with ample room for your own initiatives. We are now looking for you, an educated church musician or music educator, who wants to help lead and develop the choir and music life in a congregation with a big heart. We have three districts; Mora, Sollerön/Venjan, and Våmhus, which collaborate and strengthen each other. The hospital church is also included.

With us, the musical activities are an integral part of the common parish life and encompass both classical repertoire and newer music. There is room to explore other creative possibilities and to develop our local cultural collaboration.

The Company Offers

A work environment that aims to be both creative and sustainable. Our core values – security and trust – permeate our work, and there is room for both community and personal development. We also offer flexibility in your tasks and for creative and innovative ideas.

Mora Parish aims to provide good and secure meeting places for faith and life where people can grow. We continuously work to meet our parishioners of all ages based on existing needs, and here parishioners are welcome to participate in creating new meeting places. Outdoor life is integrated into our activities year-round, and our worship life accommodates a diversity of expressions.

Mora Parish wants to be a significant community actor and a workplace where we strive for a good working environment, sustainability, and existential health. Both external and internal sustainability are important to us and something we actively work on.

In Mora Parish, you have the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives and contribute to an inclusive and vibrant parish life. Mora and northern Dalarna offer leisure activities close to both activity and recovery, with great nature, culture, and sports experiences year-round.

We offer wellness benefits or wellness hours.

Your Responsibilities

In the parish, there is currently a newly started gospel choir, wellness choir, chamber choir, children's choirs, and several church choirs. We see it as particularly important to develop children's and youth music in the Mora district together.

Together with your colleagues, you will share duties during our worship services and ceremonies. You will design and conduct musical worship services and programs that complement the regular worship life, both individually and together with your musician colleagues.

If you are applying for the position of chief organist, you will have special responsibility for organ teaching and instrument maintenance in the parish.

There is great opportunity to influence the content of your position and contribute to our activities with your special skills and interests. If you are interested in leadership, there is an opportunity to combine your position with a role as district manager in the parish.

Your main placement is in Mora, but work will take place throughout the parish.

Your Profile

As chief organist, you have an education as a church musician at level A.

As a cantor/organist, you have an education as a church musician at level B or C or equivalent.

We are looking for someone who is committed to strengthening both their own and others' musical development. You have a strong commitment to the singing and music of worship and have a musical breadth that includes both older and newer music for church use. You are independent, take your own initiatives, and find the usual church music tasks important and enjoyable. You are a good choir leader who enjoys enhancing participation in music in various ways.

Requirements for the position include good language skills in Swedish, where you can express yourself well in both speech and writing. A driver's license is an advantage.

Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

Application

Warmly welcome your application via www.clockworkpersonal.se/lediga-jobb (https://www.clockworkpersonal.se/lediga-jobb) by May 4th. We collaborate with Clockwork Recruitment. For more information, you are warmly welcome to contact recruitment consultant Erica Sundin at 072-351 27 60, who can connect you with the right person.

Union representatives are: KyrkA Sandra Kinley, sandra.kinley@kyrka.se 0240-66 90 23 and Vision Jimmy Sjögren, jimmy.sjogren@fv.vision.se 076-147 78 15, Sweden's Teachers, Erik Tinnis, 0248-73675. Mora municipality offers relocation services.

To ensure sustainable recruitment, we at Clockwork are keen to have a gender-balanced and inclusive selection in all our processes that we assist our clients with. With the help of a broad selection and a competence-based methodology as a foundation, we ensure that you as an applicant are treated equally, fairly, and equitably.