School Librarian at Sannarpsgymnasiet

The mission of the Education and Labor Market Administration is to enhance individuals' opportunities to find work and become self-sufficient through education, internships, and employment.

We offer the largest combined selection of upper secondary education and adult courses in the municipality.

The upper secondary schools in Halmstad municipality share a common goal of providing students with the safest adventure of their lives. We aim to offer extensive choices for students, which is why we have high demands regarding the right staff in the right place.

Sannarpsgymnasiet offers the following programs: Natural Science Program, Economic Program, Social Science Program, Child and Leisure Program, Health and Care Program, and Introduction Program. Sannarpsgymnasiet is also Halmstad's largest sports high school with National Sports Education, NIU, in football, handball, swimming, table tennis, athletics, and badminton. Sports and health, as well as joy in movement, permeate the school's activities. Kristinehedsgymnasiet, which offers the Vehicle and Transport Program, is also part of Sannarpsgymnasiet. Our programs contribute to creating a foundation for a sustainable study environment with studies and health at the center.

Your Responsibilities

We are looking for a school librarian for the Sannarpsgymnasiet library. As a school librarian, your task is to drive and develop our library into a well-integrated part of the operation. The school library is a pedagogical resource for teaching and schoolwork and should support learning and contribute to students' goal fulfillment.

The work involves, in addition to performing traditional librarian tasks, primarily dialogue and pedagogical meetings with students. The library and the school's teachers have an established collaboration that includes planning for class visits, inspiring reading, supporting students' graduation projects, and teaching information retrieval and source criticism (MIK).

At our library, you will work closely with another librarian in a daily environment characterized by collaboration and community.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a degree in library and information science. Experience as a librarian is an advantage. We also appreciate experience as a school librarian or working with children and youth. Good Swedish language skills, both spoken and written, and strong digital competence are required for the role.

You need to be communicative and able to adapt your communication depending on the audience, recipients, and reactions. Furthermore, you are good at collaborating and building relationships with both students and adults. You are used to working both independently and in a team and have a good ability to plan, execute, and follow up on your work. We prefer candidates who are proactive, initiative-taking, and creative in their work.

You act according to our municipality's common values and are a role model for other employees. You encourage participation and creativity, show personal care by providing support, and confront in a good spirit, both for your immediate colleagues and for the organization as a whole.

Other Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Halmstad municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally.

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the organization. Therefore, we welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment, you need to demonstrate your right to work, as required by the Aliens Ordinance. You do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland through a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate along with an identification document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or show that you are exempt from the work permit requirement.

The position is subject to the necessary decisions being made.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

We warmly welcome your application!

If you are offered employment within upper secondary and adapted upper secondary school at the Education and Labor Market Administration, you are required to present an extract from the Police Criminal Record for work within schools/preschools. The extract is free of charge and may take up to 2-3 weeks for the police to process. Therefore, please order it in good time!

When you work in Halmstad municipality, you create meaning by shaping, strengthening, and enriching the everyday lives of others - whoever you are. For us, collaboration, balance, and the opportunity to develop, both as a professional and as a human being, are important - we are the workplace where you get more out of life! Read more about us here (https://www.halmstad.se/intro).