Mother Tongue Teacher/Study Guide

Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different job roles. We are growing as the city develops with more residents, more housing, and a larger offering. We are always looking for new skills - employees with different backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better city to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you have knowledge and experience in pedagogical work?

Do you want to help develop Sweden's ninth largest municipality? Then you have a job to apply for.

Your new job

As a teacher with us, you will plan and conduct teaching in the mother tongue and collaborate with subject teachers to provide high-quality study guidance. You and your colleagues in the unit are driven to develop the mother tongue subject together. Collaboration with all schools is incredibly important, and as a mother tongue teacher, you will share mid-term assessments with mentors, guardians, and students according to our joint planning. The mother tongue subject will then be addressed in the development conversations held by the mentor. You will also assist in, for example, pedagogical investigations.

With us, we work on development and self-leadership within the unit, through active participation in meetings, theme weeks, and other activities that strengthen the unit.

We are looking for mother tongue teachers/study guides in the following languages:

• Telugu - hourly employment
• Romani (arli) - hourly employment
• Portuguese 50-75% - fixed-term employment HT 2025
• English - hourly employment
• Tamil - hourly employment
• Amharic 45% - fixed-term employment HT 2025

Welcome to us

The Mother Tongue and Reception Unit is located in the House of Knowledge in Kålgården in central Jönköping. The unit currently includes about 3,400 students studying the mother tongue subject and about 220 students receiving study guidance. Within the operation, there are currently about 100 teachers who together teach in more than 40 different languages. Teaching takes place in everything from individual instruction to larger groups, as well as groups that receive remote teaching. The reception unit receives all newly arrived students in the municipality and conducts the National Agency for Education's mapping and provides a brief introduction to the Swedish school. On-site at the House of Knowledge are administrators, managers, shared development coordinators, and teachers who work with mapping and remote teaching. The teachers are divided into 7 work teams with different focus areas; digitalization, mother tongue promotion, reality-based learning, didactics, grading and assessment, school collaboration, and language development.

Your qualifications

You are a qualified and preferably licensed mother tongue teacher and/or another teacher. You have good knowledge of the Swedish language in speech and writing, at least SVA 3, as the position may involve study guidance. We prefer that you have previous experience as a mother tongue teacher. If you have not worked as a mother tongue teacher, you should have prior pedagogical experience. You have the relevant language as your mother tongue, but also knowledge of how the Swedish school system works and the values on which the school is based. A driver's license is beneficial, as mother tongue teachers are mobile.

The qualities we consider important in our employees are personal maturity, the ability to collaborate, creativity, and since you will be working throughout the municipality, it is also important to have a holistic perspective.

Good to know

To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask you to attach relevant certificates and grades for the position you are applying for. Please note that the Education Act requires all employees to present an extract from the criminal record, and the processing time for this document can be long.

Before we hire new employees for teaching positions, it is important to ensure that the teaching license is valid. Therefore, we ask you who are applying for the position to attach a current teaching license obtained from the National Agency for Education within the last two months. Please log in via the National Agency for Education's e-service at the following link: National Agency for Education e-service (https://login.skolverket.se/idp/lleg-etjanst/select?returnUrl=https://lleg.skolverket.se/).

Selection and interviews may take place before the application period has ended.

Want to know more?

Welcome to contact one of the contact persons mentioned in the advertisement or look up a union representative via the link below.

Union representative (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligaubf)

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position of mother tongue teacher/study guide.

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly but firmly request no calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.