Substitute Art Teacher in Jönköping Municipality

Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different job roles. We are growing as the municipality develops with more residents, more housing, and a larger offering. We are always on the lookout for new talent - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you want to make a difference for children and youth in Jönköping Municipality together with us? Are you driven by challenges and enriching collaborations? Do you want to help develop our cultural school's attractiveness as a workplace and as a place where children and youth come to create, develop, and learn? Then you could be our new colleague now that one of our art teachers is moving on to another position within our organization! With us, you will inspire joyful learning – every day, all the way!

Your New Job

We are looking for a substitute for one of our art teachers during parental leave.

You have broad and deep expertise in visual arts and design as well as high pedagogical competence where you can meet both different ages and varying group sizes. The role includes teaching in the Cultural School's art courses, which primarily take place in the afternoons and evenings, as well as within the Cultural School's basic course. In the basic course, the Cultural School's educators meet all second-grade students in the municipality each academic year. In addition to the mentioned parts, collaboration with subject colleagues and the rest of the staff in various projects and outreach activities is included. There may be some weekend work on certain occasions.

You see each student, and through your knowledge and pedagogical ability, you provide challenges that contribute to developing and preparing the student for what may become a strong interest, a hobby, or even a profession in the future.

Welcome to Us

At the Cultural School Jönköping, we embrace diversity, and we are convinced that diversity contributes to a developing environment where we together challenge boundaries and create new knowledge and competence for the future cultural school. Here, passionate educators meet to spark children's and youth's interest and creativity in various cultural directions and activities. We promise you no easy job, but we promise you a group of wonderful, engaged colleagues and interesting challenges. With us, you have the opportunity to make a difference – welcome to the Cultural School Jönköping!

Our cultural school has about 55 creative employees who work with great commitment to provide children and youth with opportunities to develop through teaching, experiences, and their own creation within music, dance, visual arts, film, and theater. We also conduct outreach and open activities to reach even more children and youth.

We teach primarily in our core activities from early afternoon to evening but also with so-called basic courses and cultural ladders, both of which mean that we offer entire grades within primary and adapted primary schools various cultural activities.

The Cultural School has its own premises in both Jönköping and Huskvarna.

Read more about us here (https://www.jonkoping.se/naringslivarbete/jobbaijonkopingskommun.4.74fef9ab15548f0b8001425.html)

Your Competence

We are looking for a competent educator with a university degree or other education/experience that the employer deems equivalent.

You have experience teaching visual arts and design for children and youth. You have good pedagogical skills and a clear desire to help children and youth develop through cultural practices. In your role, you start from the student's interest and inspire and adapt teaching to each unique context. You are creative, responsible, flexible, and well-organized, you work independently and also find it easy to collaborate with others. You understand the importance of acting and expressing yourself professionally towards students, guardians, colleagues, and partners. You have good knowledge of digital tools, both pedagogical and administrative, and actively use them in your teaching. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

As the job involves traveling to different schools in the municipality on certain days of the week, we prefer that you have a B driver's license and access to your own car.

Good to Know

The position is a parental substitute with some possibility of extension.

To facilitate the recruitment process, we ask you to attach relevant certificates and grades for the position you are applying for. In this recruitment, extracts from the criminal record will be requested.

Read more about the criminal record here (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/)

Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis during the advertisement period.

Want to Know More?

Welcome to contact one of the contact persons listed in the advertisement or seek out a union representative via the link below.

Union Information (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligaubf)

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position of art teacher.

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.