Job Advertisement: Mathematics Teacher

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal town of Gävle, you have close access to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us!

Education Gävle is responsible for preschool, primary school, secondary school, and adapted education. We work to ensure that all children and students are challenged and succeed in their education. With us, you will help develop the best possible conditions for learning. Together, we ensure that the children and students of Gävle reach their goals!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a mathematics teacher, you will plan, implement, and follow up on your teaching. You are accustomed to assessing and evaluating different teaching strategies and adapting your instruction accordingly, both individually and together with your subject team. At the school, we have high expectations for the students and their ability to develop. As an educator, you create a teaching situation characterized by safety and a trusting climate. At the school, we work both in teams and subject groups. Collaboration and collegial learning are an obvious part of the assignment. We want you to contribute to developing this area, work digitally, and see a culture of sharing as a given. At Vasaskolan, teachers are mentors for students in their own work teams.

The secondary school is divided into program orientations. As a teacher in high school, you will work in both teams, subject groups, and individually with a focus on student development.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have a good attitude, a strong ability to collaborate, and you care about high quality in your work.

The position is a fixed-term employment from August 12, 2025, to June 18, 2026.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has a teaching degree and teaching certification with the authority to teach mathematics at the high school level. You are familiar with and knowledgeable about the high school curriculum and have the ability to express yourself well in the Swedish language, both orally and in writing.

To lead instruction in digital environments, it is important for the position that you have knowledge of and can quickly familiarize yourself with digital systems, as well as use digital tools to support students' knowledge development. If you have also developed your own methods to meet students in their knowledge development, it is an advantage.

Your assignment also includes mentorship and collaborating with the student health team to adapt instruction for students who need the right support.

We warmly welcome your application!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally.

If you are applying for a part-time position with us, there is a decision within Gävle Municipality that allows you, as a permanent employee, to request to work full-time. Such a request may mean that you may need to perform other tasks than your regular ones.

Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you meet our other competency requirements and also speak Finnish, it may be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.