Vacant job

Come closer - come to Nykvarn Municipality! With nature as your neighbor and the pulse of the city around the corner, approximately 12,000 residents are waiting for you and your efforts to make a difference in their everyday lives. We are a relatively young municipality - drive, responsibility, and a desire for development characterize us. Today, we are about 700 engaged employees, and we need to grow. Are you one of them?

At the office of Living and Acting, we ensure that new ideas are born, developed, and implemented within culture, business, and leisure. We listen, guide, engage, shape meeting places and stories. We contribute to the public meeting the private in creative collaboration between the municipality, associations, and businesses. All to create a meaningful everyday life for those who live and work in Nykvarn.

The Culture School in Nykvarn is looking for engaged employees - Become a part of Young in Nykvarn!

Young in Nykvarn is the municipality's umbrella term for activities and events aimed at children and youth. We are present where children and youth are: at the library, the culture school, and at all other places where young people need activities and safe adults. Our goal is simple; all children and youth should feel that there are places just for them. The Culture School in Nykvarn is a central and important part of Young in Nykvarn. We offer a creative and developing platform where young people can explore their interests in music, dance, theater, and other artistic expressions, while also being given the opportunity to grow as individuals. As part of Young in Nykvarn, the Culture School is more than just a place for teaching - we are a safe and inspiring meeting place where children and youth get the chance to create, develop, and be part of a positive social community. Together with other actors in the municipality, such as the library and open activities, we contribute to creating safe places for young people to both have fun and grow in their creative expressions.

Job Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include theater teaching in groups with beginners to advanced students. You will be responsible for your student group and work to establish good contacts with the students and their families. You will lead the theater group and, together with other subject teachers, plan and implement an interdisciplinary production that will premiere in the spring term of 2026. In consultation with your supervisor, you will be responsible for scheduling and following up on schedules as well as administration. Together with your supervisor, colleagues, and students, you will plan and actively participate in activities based on the culture school's goals and commitments, such as outreach activities, joint holiday activities, open activities, and more. The role also includes actively participating in meetings and professional development.

As a teacher, you ensure that students have influence and participation in the teaching, and actively work to implement the school's core values by using methods that make teaching accessible, equal, and equitable.

Nykvarn Municipality is a Finnish administrative area, and we consider it an advantage if you speak Finnish.

Afternoon and evening work. Weekend work may occur.

The position is a vacation position.

A criminal record extract must be presented before employment.

We are looking for someone with theater or drama pedagogical education or equivalent competence acquired in another way. Knowledge and preferably experience in scenic production. You have experience teaching children and youth in theater and drama, and we believe you currently work as a theater or drama educator. You have good collaboration skills, work in a structured manner, and are empathetic. You have a good ability to independently organize, plan, and carry out your assignment. You are responsive to your students' wishes while being confident in your pedagogical leadership. You are used to organizing your work and making decisions independently. You have an inherent confidence that earns the trust of others. You have a good ability to establish and maintain good relationships with both colleagues and the culture school's students and guardians, and have experience in producing performances with children and youth.

Experience teaching at a culture school and producing performances and projects with children and youth is an advantage. Experience collaborating with other art forms and education in diversity, integration, functional variation, and gender is also advantageous. We seek someone with a strong commitment to culture and the learning and development of children and youth. Your working style is characterized by structure, planning, engagement, and good collaboration skills with both individuals and groups. We would like you to be a creative person with a strong initiative.

Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

We kindly decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.

Nykvarn as an employer

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