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About the Organization

Hello! Are you our new colleague at Fjälldalen Preschool?

Fjälldalen Preschool is a preschool with six departments where nature and the mountain are close by, offering you as an educator a unique opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of preschool education.

The preschool opened in January 2025, and we are now looking for you who want to join a wonderful group of colleagues and build a long-term career at the preschool.

At the preschool, we meet our children in their first education and their first steps in lifelong learning, and you as an educator are important in this process.

Read more about what it is like to work within preschool education: https://gallivare.se/lararjobb (https://gallivare.se/lararjobb)

Job Responsibilities

The Swedish National Agency for Education's curriculum for the preschool (Lpfö18) describes the preschool's core values and mission, containing goals and guidelines for the work in the preschool. The children in the preschool should receive a secure education where care, development, and learning form a whole.

The work as a preschool assistant involves designing a secure and developmental education for the children together with the work team. The work is challenging, exciting, and creative, taking place in close collaboration with your work team and colleagues at the preschool.

As a preschool assistant, you are part of a work team and participate in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the education offered to the children. You collaborate with the work team to offer the children a fun and educational experience.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are trained as a preschool assistant or are studying to become one, or alternatively have another education that the employer considers equivalent.

It is important that:

• you are familiar with our governing document, The Curriculum for the Preschool (Lpfö18),
• you are a secure and clear leader, easily take initiative, are positive, and trust in children's various competencies,
• you value trusting relationships with children and guardians and have good cooperation skills,
• you use pedagogical conversations and pedagogical documentation in your work,
• you use visual supports and PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) / TAKK (Signs as Alternative and Augmented Communication),
• you are interested in developing the preschool.

Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a prerequisite for the position. Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and suitability.

Within the framework of the National Minority Languages Act, Gällivare Municipality is the administrative municipality for Sami, Meänkieli, and Finnish. Knowledge of any of these languages is an advantage when applying for employment in Gällivare Municipality.

Other Information

With your application, we would like to receive a cover letter and your CV. Original documents will be required upon request. For this position, a certificate of good conduct from the Police is required, https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/), and you must present valid professional credentials.

Interviews may be held continuously during the application period, so do not wait to submit your application. The appointment is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be taken by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons. Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and suitability.

We have chosen our recruitment channels and kindly request no recruitment assistance.

Gällivare Municipality offers you:

• wellness benefits in the form of strength training, group training, or day passes at Dundret.
• free swimming/bathing.
• access to the workplace's "Trivselpeng" (wellness allowance).
• one wellness hour per week (mental or physical activity).
• membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's Leisure Association).

Working Hours/Duration

Fixed-term employment, 60% (three days a week). From August 3, 2026, to December 23, 2026. With the possibility of extension.

Salary

Monthly salary – we apply individual salary setting. Please state your salary expectation in your application.

Start Date/Application

Start date: August 3, 2026

Last day for applications: 2026-06-14.

Information

For questions, please contact:

Helena Johansson, Principal of Fjälldalen Preschool

phone: 0970-81 80 41

email: [email protected]

Union Representatives

Kommunal

010–4429919

We look forward to receiving your application!