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Job Responsibilities

Are you a Ukrainian-speaking educator looking for an exciting and important role where you can make a real difference in the lives of others? We are currently seeking a Ukrainian-speaking Community Guide for the unit of community-oriented initiatives for a one-year temporary position.

Community-oriented initiatives are part of the social administration in the city center and consist of approximately 25 permanent employees in the form of community guides, development leaders, coordinators, and unit managers. In addition, there are also about ten temporary community guides.

Our unit works with initiatives aimed at newcomers, new Gothenburgers, and new residents in the GR municipalities, to ensure a good start in Swedish society. The core mission of the operation is courses in community orientation in the mother tongue, but we also provide supplementary initiatives such as parent courses for foreign-born individuals and initiatives related to digital competence.

As a community guide, your tasks will include teaching community orientation and conducting other educational initiatives in Ukrainian, as well as staffing the city's welcome house. Planning, conducting, and following up on lessons are part of the teaching of community orientation and other educational initiatives. In the welcome house, the tasks primarily involve providing community guidance based on the needs of the target group.

You will work independently and in close collaboration with other colleagues in the unit, and your immediate supervisor will be one of the unit managers of the operation.

Qualifications

You who are applying for the position must be fluent in Ukrainian, both spoken and written, and have good knowledge of society and everyday life in Ukraine. Furthermore, we see it as a requirement that you have good knowledge of Swedish society and that you are proficient in Swedish in both spoken and written forms. We require that you have lived at least five years in Ukraine and at least five years in Sweden.

We require that you have a multi-year post-secondary education in pedagogy, or another higher education that the employer assesses as equivalent. It is meritorious if you are a licensed primary or secondary school teacher. In addition, we see it as a requirement that you have previous experience in teaching, preferably teaching adults. The position also requires that you are knowledgeable about what it means to work with digital teaching methods.

You are an educator who adapts your methods according to the participants' different conditions and uses various pedagogical and didactic methods. You create conditions for learning and explain problems and information from different perspectives. In the classroom, you are comfortable handling topics such as social issues, the functions of authorities, sexual health, and values education.

You encourage dialogue, participation, and engagement with a genuine interest in adult learning. You are attentive to the participants' needs and interested in group processes, and you show respect, consideration, and care by listening to understand the participants' perspectives. You are service-oriented and work to empower participants, enjoy individual meetings, and have good empathetic abilities.

You can collaborate well with others, have good self-awareness and personal maturity, and can work independently and take your own initiatives. You have a good understanding of the assignment and maintain a professional attitude towards participants and visitors.

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Selection and interviews will be conducted continuously during the recruitment process.

The City of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's largest employers. Our mission is to create a good everyday life for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Gothenburg. As an employee of the city, you have a secure employment with many career paths where you can engage in interesting and meaningful tasks.

The City of Gothenburg actively works to promote equal rights and opportunities and to counteract discrimination.

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

About Us

We in the social administration center work every day to improve the everyday lives of residents in central Gothenburg. Our assignments in the social field are many and range from authority exercises to promoting and preventive initiatives. We work locally but also have operations that target the entire city to meet our residents' needs. We want to create an equitable and effective social service with a focus on early interventions for a more equal city.

If you are seeking purpose and meaning in your journey and want to work in central Gothenburg - join us!