Unit Manager for Language and Competence Centre in Borlänge

Welcome to the Language and Competence Centre!

We are looking for you who want to lead one of Borlänge's most multifaceted and significant operations – where every day makes a real difference. Language, culture, democracy, and special education in a fantastic symbiosis!

The Language and Competence Centre is part of Borlänge Municipality's preschools and primary schools. The unit has one unit manager, three deputy unit managers, and approximately 105 employees. The operations of the Language and Competence Centre are geographically spread across Borlänge with itinerant teachers and premises in different locations, but they will be merged and housed under the same roof during the planned move to the new primary school at Haga. Currently, the unit manager has an office at Utanforsvägen 4 along with parts of the Language and Competence Centre's operations.

The Language and Competence Centre consists of central special education groups, emergency school, holiday school, Culture Centre Asken, the Tolerance Project, mother-tongue teachers, study guidance, Welcome Centre, reception of newly arrived immigrants, and a special educational team. The goal of these is to be a support and complement to Borlänge's school and preschool activities and thereby contribute in various ways to increased goal achievement for the students. The Language and Competence Centre has a close collaboration with both local and central child and student health services.

Our values naturally appeal to you!

• I am here for the people of Borlänge
• I like challenges
• I meet every person with openness

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

The role involves operational and budgetary responsibility for the entire Language and Competence Centre, as well as personnel and working environment responsibility for 10–15 employees, including the unit's three deputy unit managers and other pedagogical professional roles.

As unit manager, you are responsible for the overall working environment, that the operations comply with laws and agreements, and that systematic quality work is conducted within the operations. In the assignment, you lead, organize, set requirements, support, and follow up on operations in a way that promotes and leads to the achievement of set goals.

Qualifications

Basic requirements for the position:

• University education in humanities, pedagogy, or another area that the employer deems relevant for the position
• Several years of experience in working as a manager, including budgetary responsibility
• Very good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing
• Category B driver's license
• Good digital competence

Personal qualities:

As unit manager for the Language and Competence Centre, we consider it natural that you are driven by a positive view of students, that you want to and have the ability to put the student at the center, to make a difference for Borlänge's students every day.

We are looking for you who are secure in your leadership and structured in your way of leading, as the scope of responsibility for the position is broad and includes several multifaceted operations. You create clarity, direction, and context for the entire organization by looking up and seeing the whole picture in prioritizations and decisions. Through a strategic perspective, you can anticipate needs, analyze consequences of different choices, and turn ideas into development that creates value for the operations.

In your work and leadership, you are listening and responsive to employees' competence, ideas, and needs by creating conditions for participation and engagement. You are clear by communicating simply, directly, and openly, and with a present and relationship-building attitude, you build trust both within your own organization and in various collaboration forums.

As a person, you are initiative-taking and driving, with a desire to develop and improve the operations. You have a good ability to identify challenges, analyze complex issues, and find solutions that contribute to the operations' goals. Even in more challenging situations, you maintain your calm, stand firm in your leadership, and remain constructive and forward-looking. You are motivated by creating results and have the ability to turn strategic goals into concrete activities that move the operations forward.

Meritorious qualifications:

• Knowledge in special educational work, practical aesthetic learning processes, and language development
• Knowledge of preschool and school curricula and the democratic mission
• Role involving managerial responsibility over other managers
• Leadership training
• Experience/knowledge in data-driven systematic quality work

Other Information

• Salary form: Monthly salary.
• Employment type: Permanent employment.
• Duration: Permanent.
• Working hours: Daytime.

Borlänge Municipality applies a competence-based recruitment method, and you will be asked to answer selection questions when you submit your application. The questions are based on the qualifications for the position, and the answers form the basis for the first selection. As part of the selection process, we also use tests in this recruitment.

To obtain employment, you must provide a certificate of good conduct (extract from the criminal record), which will be requested if employment becomes current. Please order this in connection with the application so that it is available if you become a candidate for the position. You order the extract directly from the police website.

In connection with the interview, you as a candidate need to provide proof of citizenship in Sweden/EU/EES or a valid work and residence permit.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Borlänge Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link and not in any other way.

For you with protected personal data, we offer an extra protected application procedure. Contact the recruiting manager before you submit your application, so we ensure that your data is handled in a secure and correct manner according to current routines.

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