Teacher of Mother Tongue Romani (Kelderasch) in Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural areas with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 inhabitants but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located only 20 minutes from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Furthermore, Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of large city municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as schools, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors like digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

About the Unit

The Multilingualism Unit organizes mother tongue instruction, study guidance, and reception of newly arrived students. The teachers at the unit teach in 24 different languages.

Through collegial learning, we continuously strive to improve and develop pedagogical practice. Our focus is on pedagogical development, professionalism, and job satisfaction. The unit has meeting rooms and workspaces at Torpskolan, centrally located in Lerum and easily accessible by train/bus.

Responsibilities

1 position(s).

Your assignment includes teaching students in the mother tongue Romani (Kelderasch) for both primary school and upper secondary school. Study guidance may also be part of the role.

You participate with motivation and enthusiasm in meetings and competence development relevant to your professional learning.

You plan, implement, evaluate, and develop pedagogical work both independently and together with the work team.

The work team meets once a week for collegial learning and development of the operations, where you practice, test, and share. The unit is divided into forum groups to create participation in the unit's common goal picture.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a positive force at work and have an easy time creating and maintaining good social relationships with those you meet, such as colleagues, students, and guardians. You are developmental in your leadership and employee relations.

You are flexible in your pedagogical approach and meet students with respect, encouragement, and high expectations. In meetings with pedagogical staff at schools, you are collaborative and solution-oriented while being skilled at communicating what your assignment entails.

Requirements:

• You have didactic knowledge in Romani (Kelderasch) and good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Mother tongue teacher certification is desirable. For a permanent position, a teacher certification is required.
• At least upper secondary education or equivalent is a requirement.
• Knowledge of the steering documents of the Swedish school system.
• The work requires that you are experienced in handling digital tools.

Merits:

• University courses in education.
• Previous teaching experience.
• Driver's license and access to a car are desirable as part of the position is mobile.

To work with children and young people, an extract from the Police's criminal record register is required. You order it yourself via the Police's website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/digitalt-registerutdrag/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/digitalt-registerutdrag/)

The recruitment process is ongoing during the application period, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Employment Terms

• Employment type: Fixed-term employment.
• Duration: 6 months or longer.
• Working hours: Daytime.

Lerum Municipality – A Sustainable and Inclusive Workplace

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, operations, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as a wellness allowance and employee welfare programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the job for authentication in, for example, system logins or other verification.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We warmly welcome your application!

For this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers regarding competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.