Vacant job

Job Description

As a Senior Teacher (Förstelärare) at Hedskolan, your mission is to act as a positive, pedagogical role model by developing collegial learning within your unit and across Gällivare Municipality. As a Senior Teacher, you already hold your regular teaching position at the school, while vacant teaching positions are advertised separately. In your role as a Senior Teacher, you primarily work with the School Development, Competence Development, and Analysis (SKA) work at the school, both strategically and operationally, to support other staff groups in strengthening pedagogical development efforts to achieve higher goal fulfillment.

Responsibilities

Primarily, you work as a Senior Teacher on behalf of the Child and Education Administration with responsibility for:

• Teaching and other tasks related to teaching.
• General didactic development.
• Systematic quality work.
• Mentoring and guiding other teachers.
• Leading processes aimed at increasing the school's goal fulfillment.

Qualifications

You must have a teaching license, two years of evaluated teaching service, a strong ability to improve results, a keen interest in developing teaching, and be specifically qualified for the teaching/tasks associated with this role. To succeed in the Senior Teacher role, we expect you to be a clear leader with the ability to create and maintain good relationships with students, staff, and parents. You have a particular ability to maintain focus on goal fulfillment through follow-up and analysis. Your view on school development is rooted in modern educational research, and you have a clear focus on results as well as the ability to view the entire school organization as a learning organization.

Personal suitability is highly valued. Within the framework of the National Minority Language Act, Gällivare Municipality is the administrative municipality for Sami, Meänkieli, and Finnish. Knowledge of one of these languages is an advantage when applying for employment in Gällivare Municipality.

An extract from the police criminal record is required prior to employment.

What Gällivare Municipality Offers You:

• Access to fitness facilities: strength training and group training at Dundret.
• Free swimming 12 times per month.
• One fitness hour per week.
• Access to the workplace's "Trivselpeng" (well-being allowance).
• Membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's Leisure Association).
• Become a health inspirator at your workplace.
• Opportunities for summer employment.
• Development Opportunities: Support from experienced mentors and access to continuous competence development. Possibility to combine education with work.
• Close to Nature: Combine your career with fantastic outdoor recreation opportunities in beautiful Gällivare.
• Innovative Working Methods: We invest in modern pedagogy, collaboration, and sustainable development.

Read more about Gällivare Municipality as an employer and what it is like to work in preschool and primary school here: gallivare.se/lararjobb (https://gallivare.se/lararjobb)

Working Hours / Duration

100%, fixed-term employment (general fixed-term) for three years. The assignment should fit within regular working hours and be included in the work schedule.

Salary

Monthly salary. As a Senior Teacher, your salary is set as the teacher's regular salary plus 5,000 SEK per month.

Start Date / Application

Please include a CV with your application. Original documents may be requested upon invitation. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

Start date: By agreement.

Application deadline: 2026-06-07

Information

Principal Eva Sjöholm, tel 0970-818 325

Principal Marika Korpi-Frisk, tel 0970-818 811

Union Representatives

Sveriges Lärare, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

We look forward to receiving your application!