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In Österåker Municipality, we work to provide residents with the best quality of service and the services we offer. With us, you can make a difference, both for individuals and for the municipality as a whole. Those who work with us can be assured of engaging in meaningful tasks. Do you want to join us on our journey? Then you are warmly welcome to Österåker.

Do you want to make a real difference for children's learning and development at a central level? Pedagogcentrum's Metodverkstad is looking for an experienced and driven preschool teacher with strong commitment who wants to contribute to making Österåker the best school municipality in the county.

Pedagogcentrum is Österåker Municipality's hub for professional development for educators, teachers, and principals. Part of Pedagogcentrum is Metodverkstan, Sweden's first makerspace for preschool and pedagogical care. Metodverkstan offers development initiatives linked to identified needs in the unit's systematic quality work. The development work takes place both in our premises Metodverkstan and on-site at our preschools and pedagogical care. The purpose of Metodverkstan is to enhance and inspire educators, teachers, and principals so that the quality of teaching increases and children learn and develop even more.

Your new job

As a development leader at Pedagogcentrum, you have a free and independent work role with very high demands for competence, endurance, and drive. You are responsible for Metodverkstan and lead the work from start to finish, including booking, planning, implementation, and follow-up of each development initiative. You create demand by delivering high-quality and accessible development initiatives. The work is fast-paced and requires you to have a good ability to structure, organize, and prioritize to keep multiple parallel processes running at the same time.

Your professionalism, creativity, and drive are crucial for success. You are an experienced and well-regarded leader with the ability and experience to provide practical support to teachers and educators, always based on the curriculum and data. Your methods are based on scientific principles and proven experience. You scan the environment and let new research and findings influence/improve your working methods and practices.

You have a very high physical presence at the workplace and are accessible. You collaborate closely with educators, teachers, and principals. You quickly absorb new information and apply it in practice. You are good at listening and learning in all your meetings without losing focus on the purpose of the development work and what it should result in. You are systematic, structured, and do not give up.

Conversations and collaboration with the principal are central to the work.

The work is not suitable for everyone as it requires a person who is exceptionally skilled, experienced, and driven, with an unwavering belief that the impossible is possible. You have the ability to inspire, challenge, and enhance educators, teachers, and principals even in difficult teaching situations or under challenging conditions.

Your profile

• Licensed preschool teacher.
• Very high digital competence, administratively and in teaching.
• Documented experience and skill in teaching and school development.
• Very good collaboration skills, but with an even higher ability and drive to work independently and take initiative.
• Quick to absorb new information and apply it in your practical work.
• Order and organization come naturally and easily to you.
• Humble, unpretentious, and clear leader with a strong belief in the competent individual.
• For you, children's changing knowledge is always at the center, and you have many different tools to visualize and support development.
• You find it easy to prioritize and always work efficiently with practical reality and the curriculum as a foundation.
• You are used to leading learning processes and conducting reflective conversations with preschool teachers about didactics and pedagogy in preschool.
• You are development-oriented, structured, patient, and flexible.

A driver's license and car are advantageous as time-efficient site visits are part of your daily work. You should be able to quickly travel between different units and back to your workplace, the municipal building Alcea.

About Pedagogcentrum

Everyone working at Pedagogcentrum has different roles and works independently, but they depend on each other to succeed. We are a small, engaged, driven, and positive workgroup that works purposefully and systematically to support principals and teachers in their work with children's and students' learning and development within both municipal and private entities.

Employment Scope

60-100%

Employment Form

Permanent, 6-month probationary period.

Start Date

April 1, 2026, or by agreement

Application Deadline

January 30, 2026.

After submitting your CV and cover letter via the “Apply” button below, you will create a short video (max 3 minutes) where you describe yourself and why you are the right person for this position. You will email the video to [email protected]

• The video must be emailed by January 31, 2026, and is a requirement for you to have a chance to be called for an interview.

Welcome with your application!

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Doesn’t it sound exciting? Register your application via the “Apply” button. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications in any other way.

Please feel free to read more at osteraker.se/jobbaiösteråker

Österåker Municipality is looking for individuals who have the competence to contribute to our operations regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, age, ethnic background, religion or other belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Just like us, you also have a child rights perspective in your daily work, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Contact information for our union representatives can be found on our website.

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

Thirty kilometers to Stockholm, 1,100 islands, 930 kilometers of coastline, and a slightly nicer way of living. We in Österåker are proud of our metropolitan archipelago environment where the picturesque cultural landscape is always close. The central town of Åkersberga is developing into a modern city with a small-town character. Here we are developing a long-term sustainable society where good conditions are provided for people, the environment, and nature to cooperate.