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Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Culture is an important part of Stockholm's nervous system and touches millions of people every year. At the Culture Administration, we work together to strengthen the cultural life in Stockholm.

We have an open work climate where employees are highly involved in development. Join us in contributing to Stockholm's growth through culture!

Welcome to us

As a Library Educator at Skärholmen Library / Punkt 127, your main task is to work with young people at the library.

You lead, listen, and guide our young visitors to meaningful leisure activities with us. You promote reading but understand that the library also has a broader role for young people in their free time, a meeting place where relationships are created and strengthened, where you can be reading, studying, creative, and co-creating in various activities. The unit's other libraries are Aspudden, Bredäng, Fruängen, Gröndal, and Telefonplan.

We offer

We offer you a key role in the task of meeting and leading young people at the unit's largest library.

• You contribute to the collegial everyday learning.
• You receive professional development through, for example, digital training.
• You explore and develop together with your colleagues the library space and operations through UX methods / Design thinking.
• You are offered a wellness allowance (3000 SEK, 2025).

Your role

In the role of library educator, you will lead youth activities by guiding young people between different activities and being responsive to their own ideas about activities. Your ability to create relationships with young people is crucial for the task. You will, among other things:

• Promote reading and understand that a library can also fulfill other needs such as a safe place, a study room, or a social context.
• Collaborate with external parties to reach the target group.
• Lead and listen to visitors and be clear in your role as a service person.
• Participate in the library's daily work with media, routines, and tasks.

Your qualifications and experience

We are looking for someone who has:

• An academic degree
• A background as a youth librarian, leisure educator, teacher, social educator, social worker, literature scholar, or other comparable background deemed suitable by the employer.
• Documented experience in leading young people.
• Good digital competence.
• Good knowledge of literature.

The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competence and thus counteracting discrimination.

You can read more about the Culture Administration (https://start.stockholm/om-stockholms-stad/organisation/fackforvaltningar/kulturforvaltningen/). The Culture Administration invests in and prioritizes digital competence to offer better accessibility and conducts a comprehensive project for digital competence development for all employees.

Read more about our benefits here (https://jobba.stockholm/formaner/), and learn more about what it is like to work with us (https://jobba.stockholm/).