Mother Tongue Teacher in Swahili

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic places with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only a 20-minute commute from Gothenburg and is currently facing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure both good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of metropolitan municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

The Multilingual Unit organizes mother tongue education, study guidance, and the reception of newly arrived students. The teachers in the unit teach in about 20 different languages and in Swedish as a second language.

Through collegial learning, we continuously strive to improve and develop pedagogical practice. Our focus is on pedagogical development, professionalism, and joy at work.

In Lerum Municipality, we work in line with Agenda 2030, and we expect you to have an interest in this as well.

The unit has meeting rooms and workspaces in the Dergårds area together with Lerum High School, a central location in Lerum that is easily accessible by train/bus.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Your role includes providing study guidance to students in the mother tongue Swahili in all school forms for both primary and secondary education.

You participate with joy and enthusiasm in the meetings and professional development that occur. You will plan, implement, evaluate, and develop the pedagogical work both independently and together with your colleagues and in the work team. Once a week, the work team meets for collegial learning and development of the operations.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a positive force in the work and has an easy time creating and maintaining good social relationships with those you meet, such as colleagues, students, and guardians. You are developing in your leadership and are a good listener. You are fundamentally a person who easily finds solutions in challenging situations.

You have didactic knowledge in Swahili and have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

You are flexible in your pedagogical approach and meet students with respect, encouragement, and high expectations. In your interactions with educational staff at the schools, you are collaborative and solution-oriented while being skilled at conveying what your role is.

You care about your own learning and development together with others. Flexibility and a solution-focused mindset are important, as well as your ability to collaborate and communicate with students, colleagues, school management, and other staff.

The work requires that you are comfortable using digital tools.

For a possible permanent position, a teaching license is required.

At least high school eligibility or equivalent is a requirement. Completed SFI and at least SAS basic or equivalent. Higher education qualifications are meritorious.

A driver's license and access to a personal car are desirable.

To work with children and youth, a certificate from the Police's criminal record register is required. You order it yourself via the Police's website: Police's website (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/digitalt-registerutdrag/).

OTHER

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, the organization, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

We care about a good working environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness grants and employee care programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: Lerum's employee benefits (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner).

As an employee of Lerum Municipality, there may be a requirement to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

In preparation for this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly ask not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.