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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you attracted to enabling a developing and inclusive future for newly arrived children and youth? Then this could be a position for you! We are looking for an engaged mother tongue teacher! Come and shape Gävle's future with us.

The students should be given the opportunity to develop and strengthen subject knowledge based on their linguistic prerequisites, which is why we are now looking for a mother tongue teacher in Somali for Gävle municipality's primary schools. The work is carried out in collaboration with other educators, student health, and guardians.

As a mother tongue teacher in Somali, your responsibilities include:

• teaching the language
• teaching students about the culture and traditions of the countries where the language is spoken

The teaching follows a curriculum that has a comparative purpose, which means that you must also have good Swedish language skills.

For students who have difficulty meeting the knowledge requirements or keeping up in other subjects, you as a mother tongue teacher can provide support through study guidance. This involves highlighting or deepening the students' knowledge in an area where Swedish concepts need to be clarified and discussed in the mother tongue.

The position is part-time, 50%.

QUALIFICATIONS

To be able to perform the assignment, you need to:

• be fluent in Somali in both spoken and written form
• be fluent in Swedish in both spoken and written form
• be able to work according to the goals of the organization and follow planning

It is important that you:

• feel comfortable standing and speaking, reading, or writing in front of a larger group of children or youth
• have a relationship-building approach
• can create an open dialogue
• adapt your actions according to the situation
• have a humble approach in your collaboration with others

Warm welcome with your application!

OTHER

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.

Within Gävle municipality, there is a decision on the right to full-time work, which means that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time employment. This request should be accommodated 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 be contacted by media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.