Vacant job

Organization Description

Hello! Are you our new colleague?

We are currently looking for a substitute preschool teacher (barnskötare) for Lillsjöns preschool in Puolitkasvaara.

As an educator in Gällivare Municipality, we can offer you meaningful and varied work with good opportunities for professional development. We actively work to promote children's learning through language development, nature experiences, and cultural awareness. Our preschool is linguistically and culturally diverse, offering a rich and varied learning environment adapted to the children's needs and interests.

We strive to create a safe and inspiring environment where every child is given the opportunity to develop based on their unique prerequisites, with a focus on learning, sustainability, and inclusion.

Job Responsibilities

As a preschool teacher, you will, together with the rest of the work team, carry out activities planned according to the Swedish National Curriculum for the Preschool (Lpfö).

Qualifications

As an educator, you should be responsible and have clear leadership skills within the group of children. You should find it easy to build good relationships with children, guardians, and colleagues. Commitment, solution-oriented thinking, flexibility, innovation, and strong collaboration skills are qualities we value highly. Personal suitability is of great importance. A preschool teacher education or equivalent competence is meritorious.

Gällivare Municipality is the administrative municipality for the Sami, Meänkieli, and Finnish languages according to the National Minorities Act. Knowledge of any of these languages is meritorious when applying for employment in Gällivare Municipality.

A certificate of no criminal record (extract from the Police Register) is required and must be obtained via Polisen.se. The certificate and professional credentials must be presented before employment begins.

Gällivare Municipality offers our fixed-term and permanent employees the opportunity to:

• Participate in wellness activities: strength training and group training at Dundret
• Free swimming pool access
• One wellness hour per week
• Become a health inspirer at your workplace
• Membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's Leisure Association)

Do you want to know more about what it is like to work, live, and study in Gällivare Municipality? Read more here: Learn more about Gällivare (#)

Working Hours/Duration

Substitute position, full-time. Period: August 3, 2026 – December 31, 2026.

Salary

Monthly salary. Gällivare Municipality applies individual salary setting. Please state your salary expectations in your application.

Start Date/Application

Please attach a CV to your application. Original documents may be requested upon invitation. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

Start date: August 3 or as agreed.

Application deadline: 2026-06-23

Information

Marie Apelqvist, Principal, 0970-818481

Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Union Representatives

Kommunal: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Welcome, welcome, buorisboahtem, bures boahtin, tervetullut, tervetuloa to Gällivare!