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We have made our decision! We aim to become a leading municipality – and have everything it takes to succeed. Short decision-making paths, collaboration across operational boundaries, and the willingness to dare more. Our high ambitions give you, with your own drive, the opportunity to grow and create positive change for the citizens. As an employee of Ekerö Municipality, you will have a valuable role in our unique archipelago world – and we look forward to your application.

Uppgårdsskolan is a municipal lower secondary school with students in grades 7–9. The school is located next to Stenhamra Centre on Färingsö in Ekerö Municipality. We have approximately 310 students, distributed in classes of about 21–26 students. We value a calm and secure school environment in beautiful premises with green areas directly adjacent to the school. We have a strong and competent teaching staff where opportunities are given to develop teaching, operations, and oneself as a pedagogue. As a pedagogue, you stimulate and meet the student based on their own prerequisites and needs. As a mentor, you are the single most important person for the student – skills such as building relationships and giving meaning and context are of great importance. We advocate for and work towards the student's right to develop as far as possible by maintaining high quality in teaching and placing the student's knowledge development at the center.

Job Description

In Ekerö Municipality, teachers get time for the children and the teaching – today we are one of Sweden's leading school municipalities. Our surroundings are made for connecting parts of the curriculum with our rich nature and cultural history. To give the students the best prerequisites, our municipal schools continuously share experiences and lessons learned with each other. Here we view collegial learning as a prerequisite for student development.

We are now looking for a Biology Teacher at 60%. We are looking for a driven and positive teacher who puts student learning at the center. You are accustomed to working in a goal-oriented and formative way with your students. You are a clear leader in the classroom and create good relationships with the students. You are curious, solution-oriented, and interested in pedagogical development and research. If this sounds like you, you are who we are looking for! You will be a mentor for a class together with a mentor colleague.

We are a "just right size" lower secondary school with four parallel classes. We have small groups of around 21–26 students and a special education group at the school. Our vision is to be a place where we make a difference; we believe we can make a difference in the big picture by taking care of the little things. We do this by focusing on both knowledge and relationships by being careful to see and meet every student and colleague.

Collegial learning is important, so here you will belong to a work team/year group where you meet mentor colleagues, a group led by a year group developer. You will also belong to a subject group, where you co-plan and develop your subjects together with your subject colleagues. The lead teachers lead the common pedagogical development at the school through our UPP conferences.

We work a lot with safety and well-being; we have a calm and beautiful environment and very nice students. At the school, there is a safety team consisting of the principal, teacher assistant/student coach, special needs pedagogue, and counselor who support the teachers in maintaining a calm and safe place for everyone.

With us, you get the opportunity to develop your subject knowledge and the school as a whole while simultaneously meeting a well-established organization with room and space for collaboration and collegial meetings. We are well-equipped digitally and would like you to have a habit and interest in working digitally with students and in your daily work. We work in Teams and Unikum; if you have worked with these or similar systems before, it is meritorious.

Qualifications

To handle the assignment, we would like you to meet the following qualifications:

• Educated teacher in Biology.
• Clear leader in the classroom.
• Basic ICT competence.
• Accustomed to working in a goal-oriented and individualized manner.

Start date: 2026-08-10

Extent: 60%

Employment type: Permanent

About Ekerö Municipality

We are a multitude of different operations that together create a unique municipality – where we all help each other across unit and operational boundaries. We live our core values, which mean great commitment, good communication with open dialogue, and a professional attitude. As a smaller municipality in the Stockholm region, we can offer both closeness to each other and an ambitious development journey. To become a leading municipality, we need to fill up with new perspectives, and we hope you want to be part of contributing yours.

Ekerö Municipality wants to be an attractive employer and strives for a clear focus on sustainability. Provided that the operation's ability to meet its goals remains, the municipality has a positive attitude towards remote work when possible.

We offer, for example, wellness benefits, wage exchange to pension, exchange of holiday day allowances to free days, and smoke-free working hours. To quality-assure our recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application digitally, and not via email or post.

We have already taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing and do not wish to have contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.