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At Åre Municipality, we create conditions for everyone who lives or stays here to realize their dreams. In our magnificent mountain environment, eager skiers coexist with down-to-earth artists. There is room for you too.

Our employees perform Sweden's most important jobs every day. Regardless of where we work in the municipality, we are all collectively here for the citizens of Åre Municipality. We have many different professions working in the municipality at various workplaces. Everyone's contributions are needed to deliver good service and continue to develop the operations and the entire municipality. We work to create value and quality of life for our residents, our entrepreneurs, and visitors. With us, you make a difference every day!

In Åre Municipality, we work based on the values that we are professional, respectful, and responsive.

As an employee of Åre Municipality, you will enjoy several benefits in addition to your salary, see the link under other.

Åre Municipality is a Sami administrative municipality, and we welcome applicants who have linguistic and cultural knowledge of Sami.

The Åre Libraries are a vital community function that should be accessible, safe, democratic, and work towards a more equitable society. The library is a place where everyone is welcome, everyone is equally important and equally valuable. At Åre Libraries, we are a team of about 10 people. The Åre Libraries consist of public libraries in Hallen, Åre, Kall, Mörsil, Duved, and Järpen, and provide school library services to the municipality's eight primary schools, the high school in Järpen, and the municipality's preschools. The Åre Libraries are part of the Library and Community Guidance Unit, which, in addition to libraries, consists of the operations of Sami coordination, democratic coordination, and integration. The unit belongs to the Citizen Service department.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

To ensure a sustainable work climate where we learn from and help each other, we largely work in teams with different focus/responsibility areas but always grounded in and connected to the public libraries' mission, which includes the entire work team.

You will be part of the school library team that provides school library services to the municipality's primary schools based on the collaboration agreement the Åre Libraries have with the schools. We work as a team but with different focus schools. You will focus on school library work at Åre School and Duved School.

You will also be part of the working group that promotes reading for children aged 0-6 years and their adults. We work with preschools with cloakroom libraries, orders of book bags, as a knowledge resource for educators, and with receiving groups. We also work proactively to inspire early language stimulation and invite people to the library. This may involve visits to family centers, open preschools, or holding open story hours/music sessions/children's theater for parental leave.

Furthermore, part of the job includes shift work and branch responsibility for Duved's public library. As part of the library's work team, you will also staff Åre Library and Järpen Library. Some evening and weekend shifts are included in the position.

Common tasks:

• Staff the information desk at school libraries and public libraries.
• Receive and sort book boxes for classes and preschool groups.
• Purchase, weed, and register children's books.
• Plan and execute reading promotion activities during and outside school hours, e.g., book talks and holiday activities.
• Be a knowledge resource for educators in schools and preschools to find literature and other sources for reading promotion, source criticism, or media and information literacy (MIK).
• Develop and create content for our digital school platform.
• Be part of developing a long-term and qualitative school library work in Åre Municipality.
• Hold story hours and library information sessions for younger children and their parents.

QUALIFICATIONS

The following is required for the position:

• Degree in library and information science or other education that the employer deems equivalent.
• Interest and knowledge in children's and youth literature and reading promotion activities.
• Comfortable and enjoy speaking in front of groups.
• Good digital competence that can be used in your daily work.
• Good pedagogical ability in interactions with children, youth, and adults.
• Valid driver's license (B) and access to a car.

To fit and thrive in the role, you need to:

• Be comfortable initiating collaborations and have good communication with colleagues, educators, and other partners.
• Be responsible, self-driven, and structured, with an overview and ability to see connections.
• Enjoy working both individually and in a group.
• Be flexible and open to new conditions and working methods.
• Be confident in yourself and have the ability to set boundaries.
• Have a strong commitment to developing school library activities that promote media and information literacy and reading among children.
• Appreciate daily interactions with children and youth.
• Enjoy leading story hours or book talks for children of various ages.

Meritorious:

• Experience in outreach library work, educational work, or reading promotion activities for children and youth. We place great emphasis on personal qualities and commitment to working with children and youth.

OTHER

The position is vacant provided that there is no redundancy, need for reassignment, or priority within the municipality. A probationary period may be applied. More information about Åre Municipality can be found at www.are.se (https://www.are.se).

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

Our benefits: https://are.se/foretag-och-jobb/jobba-pa-are-kommun/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/vara-formaner (https://are.se/foretag-och-jobb/jobba-pa-are-kommun/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/vara-formaner)