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Stockholm – our capital city full of millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone who lives here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and different with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to us

Kista Primary School is a multicultural F–9 school (preschool class to grade 9) with an integrated adapted primary school for grades 1–9. The school has approximately 710 students and 140 employees, spread across two school buildings directly adjacent to Kista, one of Europe's largest high-tech areas. The teachers' qualifications are high, and we have a well-functioning student health team that works both promotively and preventively. We work with IT-adapted support in teaching where students have access to their own computers, and language development and mathematics are prioritized focus areas in the pedagogical work. Students are offered organized homework help and after-school activities in the afternoons. The school is in an exciting development phase within the framework of Collaboration for the Best School (KSBS), where we systematically develop teaching, classroom leadership, and a consolidated student health effort. During 2025, we have seen clear result improvements; for example, the proportion of students eligible for upper secondary school in grade 9 has increased by over ten percentage points.

Read more about us: http://kistagrundskola.stockholm.se (http://kistagrundskola.stockholm.se)

Your role

Kista Primary School is looking for an experienced and qualified teacher in Physical Education and Health for grades 7–9 for a parental leave substitute position on a full-time basis during the autumn term of 2026. The assignment involves teaching Physical Education and Health as well as mentoring in grade 8. You will belong to work team 8.

The role includes, among other things:

• planning, implementing, evaluating, and ensuring high-quality teaching that creates context for the student
• conducting varied teaching that includes both practical and theoretical parts to create understanding among students
• being responsible for planning, teaching, documentation, assessment, and evaluation of the groups you teach
• being a mentor in grade 8 and, together with the work team, creating a safe and clear study environment
• being part of a work team and a subject team where you collaborate with colleagues and are an important part of collegial learning, led by senior teacher and lead teacher
• contribute to the school's joint work with classroom leadership, study peace, and accessible learning environments

Interviews are conducted continuously, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for you who have high expectations for students' goal fulfillment, good pedagogical insight, and are clear and engaged to bring out the best in students. You who apply:

• are a certified teacher with qualifications in Physical Education and Health for grades 7–9
• have experience in the teaching profession, preferably from the lower secondary level
• have experience with digital working methods as an enhancement in teaching
• are well-versed in the curriculum and the school's mission and plan your teaching based on Lgr22

You are goal- and result-oriented and plan for a varied and differentiated teaching that supports students' goal fulfillment. You have a good ability to design teaching in accordance with curricula, subject plans, and current knowledge requirements. You take responsibility for and have insight into students' results and needs, and structure and adapt your teaching so that a safe and adequate learning environment is created. You involve the student in the planning and develop the student's ability to learn, both independently and together with others.

You are secure, stable, have self-insight, and are a clear leader in the classroom. You easily create relationships and see collaboration with students, colleagues, and guardians as a clear success factor in your work. You value and create good conditions for collaboration with students, guardians, and colleagues, and plan, organize, prioritize, and analyze your lesson structure as well as other assignments in an effective way.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Other

With us, you get to work in an engaged collegium where development happens together. We offer continuous competence development, collegial learning led by senior teacher and lead teacher, and a clear structure for systematic quality work. As an employee of the City of Stockholm, you receive a wellness allowance, favorable occupational pension, and good opportunities for professional development.

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aiming to consider each person's competence and thereby counteract discrimination.

Visit https://pedagog.stockholm/ (https://pedagog.stockholm/) for more information about what it is like to be a teacher in the City of Stockholm.