Leadership, Pedagogy, and Artistic Expression

This is an opportunity to combine leadership, pedagogy, and artistic expression with a focus on the development and leisure activities of children and youth.

Your Responsibilities

We are a school with high satisfaction and experienced teachers who teach in our facilities in Växhuset and at other schools in the municipality, as well as at two branches in Bäckby and Vallby. As a department head, you will work in creative environments and drive organizational development together with the unit manager/principal and fellow department heads. Together, we focus on a holistic perspective and development issues. The role requires knowledge of development processes and experience in driving change initiatives.

You will have personnel responsibility for approximately 25 teachers whom you lead with great trust and confidence in their expertise, strengths, and development potential. Your department primarily includes music-oriented subjects with associated subject teams. For you, the employees are the greatest asset, and you create engagement and a shared vision of set goals. Through your leadership experience, you build long-term sustainability and efficiency.

Your Competence

You are motivated by collaboration and see the importance of having good networks and participating in various collaboration forums. This provides you with opportunities to learn from others and find more ways to reach new target groups. To contribute to a leading cultural school, monitoring the external environment is part of your daily routine.

To take on this role, you have experience working in a leadership position. You also have experience in education and/or the cultural sector, preferably including cultural school activities. You have a higher education degree in pedagogy or the cultural field, or relevant experience for the role, along with a strong commitment to learning and artistic expressions. You are curious about all our art forms and thrive in unpretentious collaboration.

We Offer

We offer a meaningful and developing leadership role in a creative environment with a clear societal mission. You will have the opportunity to work closely and operationally, as well as long-term with organizational development alongside engaged and competent colleagues.

Here, you will be part of something bigger! With warmth and respect, we show initiative in both big and small matters. We live our values in our interactions with each other and those we serve. Every day, all year round, we ensure that Västerås functions. Together with your approximately 11,500 colleagues throughout the city, you will have Sweden's most important job.

Read more about opportunities, career paths, and our offerings here: https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarriär (https://www.vasteras.se/jobbochkarri%C3%A4r)

Read more about the Culture, Sports, and Recreation Administration: Culture, Sports, and Recreation Administration - Västerås (https://www.vasteras.se/kulturidrottochfritidsforvaltningen)

Leadership in Västerås City

Leadership in Västerås City is permeated by our values: Always the best possible meeting. To equip you as a leader with tools, to develop, and to prepare you to lead through Always the best possible meeting, there are several city-wide initiatives. We are proud that all managers participate in our own leadership program. All to develop the ability to lead and develop both operations and employees.

As a manager, you have strong support in your daily work from various areas of expertise that back you up when needed. We have support functions within HR, finance, development, communication, and digitalization.

Feel free to read more: http://www.vasteras.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/jobb-och-karriar/vara-yrken/jobba-i-en-ledande-roll (http://www.vasteras.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/jobb-och-karriar/vara-yrken/jobba-i-en-ledande-roll)

Additional Information

Before you can be employed, you need to present a valid extract from the police criminal record.

During the interview, you need to prove your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a personal certificate along with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, as required by the Aliens Ordinance. All offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are declined.