Looking for new homework helpers in Umeå – Make a difference for students' futures

Do you want to make a difference? Nearly 20,000 students failed to complete compulsory school in Sweden during the 2024/2025 academic year. There are schools where 7 out of 10 students do not qualify for upper secondary education. At the non-profit foundation Läxhjälpen (Homework Help), you contribute your skills and dedication to help more students meet qualification requirements with confidence for their future.

We are now looking for new homework helpers in Umeå!

We are looking for you who are interested in a paid part-time job while simultaneously making a concrete social contribution. The position is an hourly employment in the afternoons/evenings, involving being a homework helper after school hours at one of our partner schools. Here, you work in a team of three homework helpers, all of whom are university students. You receive training in and work according to our structured approach. Each homework help group consists of 15 students, and together with your colleagues, you are responsible for planning, implementing, and following up on the work.

Regular or substitute?

As a homework helper, you can work either as a regular helper or as a substitute. As a regular homework helper, you work 6 hours per week, distributed over two scheduled afternoons/evenings (possibility for extra shifts exists). As a substitute, you work when regular helpers are on leave or sick. The work is performed after school hours in school premises.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a university or college student
• Has pedagogical skills and can communicate and build relationships with children and young people.
• Is solution-oriented, proactive, and able to work according to our structured approach and method.
• Has broad basic subject competence and good study techniques.
• Shares Läxhjälpen Foundation's values and vision of a society where all children grow up with the prerequisites to pass school and shape their own future.

As the job involves working with children, we place great emphasis on personal suitability. Providing an extract from the police record of criminal convictions to the employer is a statutory requirement for working with children and young people.

Why Läxhjälpen?

Differences between schools, where you live, where you come from, and what your parents do increasingly determine the likelihood of you passing school. Läxhjälpen Foundation is a non-profit foundation that operates where it is needed most. Homework help is free for the students, and the salaries of the homework helpers are financed through support from the business sector and the public sector.

Läxhjälpen is a concrete effort addressing one of Sweden's biggest problems today – that more and more young people are failing school and risking falling outside of society. Carefully selected, paid university students help young people with their studies two evenings a week and serve as positive role models and mentors. Since our founding in 2007, we have developed a structured approach and a clear goal – grades should improve and students should progress to upper secondary education. We are currently present in over 100 schools in, among other places, Stockholm, Södertälje, Västerås, Norrköping, Gothenburg, Landskrona, Umeå, Sundsvall, Uppsala, Gävle, and Malmö.

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