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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 throughout the country to collaboratively create learning environments that are developing and accessible. In addition, we distribute government grants and develop teaching materials. Together, we remove the obstacles!

We hope that you, as an applicant, with your background and competence, can contribute to increasing our diversity.

We are committed to making everyone's equal value a reality. Together, we use collaboration and expertise to solve assignments. 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 equal education and other quality activities 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 the opportunity to further develop at a state level. Your main tasks 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 primarily performed digitally, but also to some extent through physical meetings. Travel may occur in the position.

In addition to special pedagogical advice, the agency offers, within the framework of SPSM's continuing education, capacity-building initiatives. As an advisor, you will also be responsible for various capacity-building 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 matters and collaborate with external actors and interest organizations to develop and create an equal 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 conduct ongoing improvement work, where we collectively develop our working methods and our offerings to achieve more accessible and equitable support.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• a degree as a special educator or special teacher
• worked as a special educator or special teacher within the education system where supervisory tasks have been included
• experience in conducting practice-oriented consultative work with professionals in relation 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 field of educational science
• experience in leadership with a process-oriented working method
• experience working with student health work 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
• specialization in pedagogical consequences within any of these disabilities or education and teaching related to any of these school forms:
• Mathematics difficulties
• Intellectual disabilities
• Preschool
• Adapted school forms
• experience working in digital environments

Personal qualities

As a person, you have a good sense of responsibility and a strong initiative. You enjoy taking on new tasks and 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 independently and collaboratively drive work forward.

The work places high demands on good collaboration skills. Therefore, you are unpretentious and confident in communicating and building good relationships. You have a good ability to work dialogically in a mutually discovering manner. 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 last five years of work experience and competence development that we assess as relevant to the position.

OTHER

You have the opportunity to work part of your time remotely, if the operation allows and in consultation with your manager.

A probationary period of 6 months applies.

A criminal record extract must be presented before employment.