Teacher for After-School Centre in Eda Municipality

Welcome to a municipality with a positive team spirit and boundless future prospects! Eda is a municipality with approximately 1,000 employees, all working in some way to provide service to our citizens, employees, and visitors.

Job Description

The after-school centre complements the school both in terms of time and content by offering activities that connect to and reinforce the work towards the goals of the curriculum. As a teacher in the after-school centre, you work with children and students aged 6–12. The overall mission is to create a meaningful leisure time that challenges and stimulates good health, learning, and development. An important part is being able to capture and base the education on the target/age group's own needs, interests, and experiences. The after-school centre has a compensatory mission that combines care with pedagogy. You are expected to collaborate with the municipal and non-profit cultural and leisure activities in Eda Municipality.

In the role of teacher in the after-school centre, you are part of a work team together with other teachers and support staff, with the deputy principal as your immediate supervisor. Teachers in the after-school centre and leisure pedagogues work with assignments from national and local regulatory documents with a responsibility to:

• Organize, plan, and implement education based on the assignment.
• Integrate practical/aesthetic learning processes into education such as art, dance, drama, and music.
• Apply central regulatory documents and local pedagogical planning based on the curriculum.
• Conduct values-based work as formulated in the curriculum to prevent bullying and harassment.
• Care for students based on their different needs, wishes, and conditions.
• Increase the participation and influence of the target/age groups and consider different needs and interests.
• Stimulate language, reading, and writing development from a first- and second-language perspective.
• Offer working methods within the subject areas of natural sciences, technology, and aesthetic expression forms.
• Use language- and knowledge-developing working methods as support for the primary school's knowledge mission.
• Utilize pedagogical learning resources such as games, books, toys, and digital tools for knowledge development.
• Conduct scheduled daily forms of physical, sports, and movement activities both indoors and outdoors.
• Collaborate with other staff and professional groups within the school, social services, culture, and leisure, etc.
• Conduct pedagogical documentation that forms a central foundation for the after-school centre's quality work.

During school hours, you will participate in some teaching at the lower primary level.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are educated as a teacher and/or leisure pedagogue and have a teacher's license with a university-level degree intended for teaching or work in the after-school centre. If you have previous experience working in a similar operation, this is meritorious. If you have completed a high school diploma from the Child and Youth Programme as a foundation and started a university/college education for teaching or work in the after-school centre, this can also be seen as meritorious. If you are a recent graduate, you will receive a mentor at the school who will guide you to give you the best possible conditions.

Competency Profile

You have good knowledge of the school's mission regarding democratic upbringing and values-based work in the fight against bullying and harassment. You have the ability to early on notice and listen to children who need adult support. You have a professional work and attitude approach as well as interaction in education within the after-school centre. You have good communicative skills to collaborate with the different staff groups and students within the school and after-school centre, and to interact with guardians. You have the ability to practically handle special pedagogical needs and to meet children and students with different identity, life, and upbringing conditions, with different needs to meet safe adults to build up mutual trust and confidence relationships.

It is meritorious if you have previous experience working with sports, health, and physical activity for younger children with responsibility for different practical and aesthetic forms of physical, sports, and movement activities. We would like you to have previous work experience in municipal operations, school, and after-school centre, or alternatively in culture and leisure from public or non-profit operations. You have knowledge of supplementary legislation such as confidentiality and reporting obligations. To start working in preschool or school, you need to show an extract from the criminal record. Great importance will be attached to personal suitability. Good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing is a requirement.

Employment Terms

Type of Employment: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent
Start Date: 2026-08-10

Our operations are based on the vision of being a positive border municipality where people meet, characterized by collaboration, a strong business life, and the ambition to develop. We work actively with gender equality and value diversity both as a municipality and as an employer.

We offer happy work teams, positive workplaces, and good employee benefits for you as an employee!

Extracts from the criminal record and/or suspicion register will be requested before employment for positions where this is required.