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Do you value closeness, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone who lives and works in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer numerous career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and city pulse just around the corner. With us, you feel secure, involved, and proud as we make a difference with strength every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large Stockholm municipality with approximately 6,400 employees and more than 110,000 residents.

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Huddinge Municipality strives to be a secure, legally sound, and professional operation. As part of our recruitment process, we may therefore conduct background checks and request register extracts at the final stage of some recruitments. If you become a candidate for this, you will receive clear information and the opportunity to give your consent before the check is carried out.

The Department of Culture and Leisure is responsible for the municipality's libraries, cultural school, sports halls and sports grounds, open child and youth activities, grants to associations and study associations, cultural activities, Vårby Library with Barnkonsten, Fullersta Farm, purchase of art, and distribution of grants and prizes in sports and culture.

1 position

Children's Librarian (Fixed-term approx. 12 months)

Do you want to work in a creative environment where you inspire children to love reading and curiosity every day? We are now looking for an engaged and imaginative Children's Librarian who wants to develop our children's activities with more events.

About the role

As a Children's Librarian, you are a key person in the work of developing the library's operations for children and their adults. You meet our visitors partly at the information desk where you offer service, guidance, and reading tips, and partly in various activities – always with a friendly approach!

You work closely with children of different ages and their accompanying adults by:

• receiving children's groups
• collaborating with preschools, preschool classes, Child Health Centers (BVC), open preschools, and family centers
• planning and conducting storytimes, book talks, and inspiring children's activities

With your creativity, you contribute to awakening children's love for reading, imagination, and language development.

Your responsibilities also include

• purchasing, weeding, and developing the children's department's media collection and layout
• keeping the collection current, relevant, and inspiring
• responsibility for deposits of children's books in the local area

With us, you get

You become part of an engaged and competent team where literature mediation and creativity are at the center. Together with colleagues working with children and young people, you have the opportunity to influence and develop the operations – from content to working methods. There is room for your ideas and your drive to create something new. Here we have both an art workshop and a program room for various inspiring activities.

About you

To thrive and succeed in this role, we see that you:

• Have a library science degree or equivalent academic education
• Have digital competence. For example, being able to handle the Office package, Quria, or similar library systems, and being familiar with digital aids and tools
• Have good communicative skills in Swedish, both spoken and written

We consider it meritorious if you:

• Have worked in the library system Quria
• Have worked with children aged 0–6 years
• Have worked in a public library
• Are multilingual

As a person, we believe you:

• have a strong commitment to children, literature, and language development
• are creative, proactive, and like trying new working methods
• enjoy meeting people and are confident speaking in front of groups
• want to help develop the library's role in society

Does this sound like something for you? Then we look forward to your application!

Why Huddinge?

In order for us to carry out our mission, you as an employee in Huddinge Municipality are the most important thing we have. Therefore, we offer a number of benefits for a sustainable working life and to facilitate your daily life: Read more about benefits (https://www.huddinge.se/arbete-och-karriar/arbeta-i-huddinge-kommun/#Formaner)

Union Contact Person

For union contact person for the position, see Union Contact Information (#)

Information

For questions about the position, please contact Mona-Lisa Lindgren, Unit Manager: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

In order for us to handle all applications in the best way, we ask you to apply directly via our advertised positions. We do not accept spontaneous applications via email.

For this position, you need to be able to present a valid extract from the criminal record register before employment can begin. You attach your diploma to the application.

Start date: August 20 or as agreed.

The position is subject to the necessary decisions being made.

Welcome with your application!

Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer (fixed-term approx. 12 months).