Native Language Teacher in Thai – Gävle Municipality

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? At Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We welcome your application!

1 position(s).

Job Description

Are you drawn to the idea of enabling a developing and inclusive future for newly arrived children and young people? Then this might be the job for you! We are looking for an engaged native language teacher! Come and shape Gävle's future with us.

Students should be given the opportunity to develop and consolidate subject knowledge based on their linguistic prerequisites. Therefore, we are now seeking a native language teacher in Thai for the primary schools of Gävle Municipality. The work is carried out in collaboration with other educators, student health services, and guardians.

As a native language teacher in Thai, your tasks include:

• teaching the language
• teaching students about the culture and traditions of the countries where the language is spoken

The teaching follows a curriculum with a comparative purpose, which also requires good proficiency in Swedish.

For students who struggle to meet the knowledge requirements or keep up with other subjects, you as a native language teacher can provide support through study guidance. This involves highlighting or deepening students' knowledge in areas where Swedish concepts need to be clarified and discussed in their native language.

The employment is 20%.

Qualifications

To perform the duties, you must:

• have fluent proficiency in Thai, both spoken and written
• have fluent proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written
• be able to work based on the organization's goals and follow planning

It is important that you:

• feel confident speaking, reading, or writing in front of a larger group of children or young people
• have a relationship-building approach
• can create an open dialogue
• adapt your actions based on the situation
• have a non-hierarchical approach in your collaboration with others

We warmly welcome your application!

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start date: 2026-08-31.

You are important to us! As an employee of Gävle Municipality, you have:

• generous holiday conditions, and as a new employee, you are also entitled to paid leave during your first year of employment
• compensation for wellness and exercise when employed for more than three months
• various insurances through our collective agreements, including sickness insurance and work injury insurance.

Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our Values

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for carrying out our mission in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base our actions on our jointly expressed values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here:

https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization:

https://www.gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it may be an asset.

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