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Do you want to help create the best conditions for equal education? At the Swedish National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools (SPSM), we work to ensure that all children, students, and adult learners with disabilities achieve their educational goals. We operate our own special schools in various locations across Sweden. We also provide support to preschools and schools nationwide to collaboratively create learning environments that are developing and accessible. In addition, we distribute state grants and develop teaching materials. Together, we remove barriers!

We hope that you, as an applicant, with your background and expertise, can help increase our diversity.

We are committed to making everyone's equal value a reality. Together, we use collaboration and competence to solve tasks. Developing leadership and increasing diversity are some of the things currently on our agenda. Together, we contribute to sustainability in society economically, socially, and environmentally. You can read more about what we offer at www.spsm.se/ledigajobb (http://www.spsm.se/ledigajobb)

Within the area of special pedagogical support, we work to ensure that our special pedagogical support creates conditions for all children, students, and adult learners with disabilities to access an equivalent education and other activities of good quality in a safe environment. We complement the municipalities' and schools' own special pedagogical resources. The support we offer can relate to individual learning, educators' work, or operations and organization.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of advisor is a varied and stimulating assignment where you have great opportunities to plan your own work situation. Our special pedagogical support is aimed at teaching, principal, and governing body levels, and we are now looking for someone with education and experience in the field who wants to develop further at a state level. Your main responsibilities will lie within the field of advisory support, where you provide assistance and answer special pedagogical questions that come from professionals and governing bodies within the country's education system. The work is predominantly performed digitally but also involves some physical meetings. Travel may be required in the position.

In addition to special pedagogical advice, the agency offers competence-enhancing measures within the framework of SPSM's continuing education. As an advisor, you will also be responsible for various competence development initiatives in the form of courses, webinars, and study packages based on scientific principles. You may also have the opportunity to represent the agency in substantive issues and collaborate with external actors and interest organizations to develop and create an equivalent education for students within the agency's target groups. You will have access to a broad network of various competencies within the special pedagogical field, and in some assignments and tasks, you will work closely with colleagues in other units and from different parts of the country.

SPSM and the Advisory Department engage in continuous improvement work, where we collectively develop our working methods and offerings to achieve more accessible and equivalent support.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have:

• a degree as a special educator or special teacher
• worked as a special educator or special teacher within the education system where supervisory responsibilities have been included
• experience in conducting practice-based consultative work with professionals related to creating accessible and health-promoting education
• experience working with school development at a strategic governing body level
• good language skills in Swedish, both spoken and written; knowledge of additional communication methods is an advantage
• good IT skills

It is advantageous if you have:

• further education after the special pedagogical degree within the educational scientific field
• experience in leadership with a process-oriented approach
• experience working with child and student health at a strategic governing body level
• experience working with complex special pedagogical issues from an inclusive perspective
• experience leading improvement work and/or collegial learning within the special pedagogical field
• education and experience teaching older age groups, upper secondary school, or adult education
• education and experience teaching in adapted school forms
• education and experience teaching students with mathematical difficulties
• experience working in digital environments

As a person, you have a strong sense of responsibility and a good ability to take initiative. You enjoy tackling new tasks and can easily adapt to current conditions and needs.

You are quality-conscious and analytical and have the ability to handle complex issues at various levels in the organization. You have a salutogenic approach and prefer to work in a promoting and preventive manner. You have a structured working method and a good ability to drive work forward both independently and collaboratively.

The work places high demands on good collaboration skills. You are therefore unpretentious and confident in communicating and building good relationships. You have a good ability to work dialogically in a mutually discovering way. You are attentive and have the ability to convey information constructively in advisory situations.

In the selection process, we place great emphasis on personal qualities. In addition, we also consider your five most recent years of work experience and competence development that we assess as relevant for the position.

OTHER

You have the opportunity to work part of your working hours remotely, if the operations allow and in consultation with your manager.

A probationary period of 6 months applies.

A criminal record extract must be presented before employment.