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Job Responsibilities

We are now looking for a Senior Teacher (Förstelärare) for Swedish and Swedish as a Second Language (SVA) at Year Levels F-3 at Västra Skolan.

You are expected to contribute to higher goal achievement at the school in Swedish through teaching and work with the school's systematic quality work. The main part of the Senior Teacher's role is teaching and tasks related to teaching. You are also expected to participate in and drive the processes regarding the transition to a 10-year compulsory school. You will lead and mentor collegial pedagogical development work. This involves planning, organizing, and leading development processes that affect individual colleagues, multiple colleagues, work teams, and development groups at the school. These development processes are identified in the school's systematic quality work to lead to higher goal achievement.

The Senior Teacher contributes to:

• Strengthening the quality of teaching practice
• Supporting teachers to anchor teaching in research, science, and proven experience
• Promoting more equitable teaching within and between schools
• Creating conditions for teachers to jointly develop their own practice
• Enabling teachers to jointly drive their own professional development

The Senior Teacher works at their own workplace but also has a partly municipal and administrative cross-cutting assignment by spreading good examples.

Qualifications

You as an applicant are a certified teacher for Year Levels F-3 with eligibility to teach in Swedish and Swedish as a Second Language. To be considered for the Senior Teacher role, you must, through documentation, be able to report at least four years of well-regarded work after graduation involving teaching within the framework of one or more employments within the school system. Furthermore, we would like you to have experience in mentoring other teachers or driving development processes based on systematic quality work. You must also be able to communicate very well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

Experience in working with language-developing teaching is seen as meritorious. Similarly, experience in planning and holding meetings with other teachers, for example as a work team leader. You need to have a good ability to develop teaching with support from research and proven experience.

Based on evidence-based research, you can develop your work and, with good knowledge and practice, work efficiently with relevant digital tools. Naturally, you have a professional approach and work for good relationships with our students, their guardians, and all your colleagues at the school.

We welcome your application!

About the Workplace

Västra Skolan is a municipal primary school located in central Malmö, surrounded by fine parks, culture, and in the heart of the city's oldest historical quarter. Västra Skolan is a F–3 school with approximately 270 students.

The Primary School Administration – the city's largest administration with approx. 80 schools, 6,300 employees, and 36,000 students – offers a workplace for everyone. Here we want to grow, develop, and challenge ourselves in our learning together – every day. We ensure that everyone gets a good work environment and invest in leadership. Together, we all work for the best school for every student!

Malmö City's operations are organized into 14 administrations. Our common mission is to create welfare and sustainable societal development. Together with the people of Malmö, we are developing an even better city to live, work, and be in; differences, life experiences, and talents make Malmö a smart city in the heart of Europe. The world's knowledge is here.

Read about Malmö City as an employer here: malmo.se/jobb

Information about the position

Employment type: Permanent

Scope: Full-time

Number of positions: 1

Start date: August 10, 2026

Other

Please note that Malmö City has removed the cover letter from the application process and replaced it with selection questions. This is for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you who are applying for a job with us. Your answers will become an important part of our selection work.

According to the School Act, a certificate of good conduct (extract from the police record) is required upon employment in preschool, school, and school-age care. The form to order the extract can be found at: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/

Malmö City strives for employees to represent the diversity that exists in our city. We therefore welcome applicants who can contribute to us as an employer meeting the needs of the people of Malmö.

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