Cello Teacher at the Cultural School in Gävle

The municipality of Gävle offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close 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!

The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day, we provide people with experiences while we build, develop, and influence today's and tomorrow's society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the daily lives of Gävle residents. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developing job. We are making Gävle grow and providing exciting experiences for its residents.

The Cultural School is a unique meeting place for music and theater, visual arts and film, circus and dance for children and youth up to 20 years old. We have age-divided groups in visual arts, circus, dance, film, photography, choir singing, theater, music, and several orchestras and ensembles every week. Children and youth can play an instrument at their regular school during the day or with us in the afternoon or evening. Together, we are about 50 educators and administrative staff. We have a large operation with over 2,500 activities each week and collaborate with the municipality's primary schools and in the neighborhoods. Our work is characterized by engaged educators who work for a broader target group.

Please read more about us and our activities on our website: http://www.gavle.se/kulturskolan (http://www.gavle.se/kulturskolan)

JOB DESCRIPTION

We at the Cultural School in Gävle are looking for a cello teacher who is passionate about guiding and inspiring children and youth in the world of music. Our goal is to offer meaningful activities for our students, and we are looking for someone who shares our vision. Come and help us make Gävle's music life accessible to everyone!

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to shape and inspire the next generation of musicians while actively contributing to creating an inclusive and positive meeting place for children and youth.

As a string teacher at the Cultural School, you will be part of our work with El Sistema. You will be part of an engaged team but also have independent tasks. Your focus will be on inspiring and motivating students with the cello as the main instrument. Just as we value diversity and inclusion, you strive to reach children and youth from all parts of society.

The position includes activities during school holidays, and there may also be work in the evenings and weekends.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a passionate and skilled cello teacher who loves to teach children from grade 1 and up. To be suitable for this position, you need to have a high level of skill in playing the cello and a genuine desire and ability to inspire your students. You will lead both group and individual lessons, and it is an advantage if you have previous experience in music education as well as a university degree in pedagogy or music. Training in the Suzuki method is also a plus.

As a person, you are empathetic and have a fantastic ability to truly see your students. You build positive and trusting relationships, which makes your students feel safe and inspired by you. You encourage personal development and joy in learning. Your flexibility and adaptability allow you to meet each student's unique needs.

To offer engaging and well-structured lessons, you are skilled at planning and organizing, and you work effectively to create a stimulating learning environment.

You must be able to present a criminal record check from the police for work in schools or preschools. This should not be included in your application.

Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis during the application period. We look forward to your application!

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To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle municipality and to 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.

Within Gävle municipality, there is a decision regarding the right to full-time work, meaning that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time position. This request must be met within six months, calculated from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time work fulfilled, you may need to perform other tasks than those normally included in your employment.

Gävle municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request not to contact media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.