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About the Employer

Hello! Are you our new childcare assistant colleague at Fjälldalen Preschool?

To our Sami minority language department, Heavdni, we are now looking for a Sami-speaking childcare assistant.

Fjälldalen Preschool is a preschool with six departments where nature and the mountain are close at hand, offering you as an educator a unique opportunity to be involved in shaping the preschool of the future. The preschool opened in January 2025, and we are now looking for you who want to step in among a wonderful group of colleagues and build a long-term career at the preschool. At the preschool, we meet our children in their first education and their first steps in lifelong learning, and as an educator, you are important.

Read more about what it is like to work in preschool: https://gallivare.se/lararjobb (https://gallivare.se/lararjobb)

Job Responsibilities

The Swedish National Agency for Education's curriculum for the preschool (Lpfö18) describes the preschool's value base and mission and contains goals and guidelines for the work in the preschool. The children in the preschool are to receive a secure education where care, development, and learning form a whole.

The work as a childcare assistant means that you, together with the work team, design a secure and developmental environment for the children. The work is challenging, exciting, creative, and takes place in close collaboration with your work team and colleagues at the preschool. As a childcare assistant, you are part of a work team and participate in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the activities offered to the children. You collaborate with the work team, and together you offer the children a fun and learning environment.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are trained as a childcare assistant (or other education that the employer assesses as equivalent) and who speak Sami (e.g., North Sami or Lule Sami).

It is important that:

• you are familiar with our governing document, The Curriculum for the Preschool (Lpfö18),
• you are a secure and clear leader, have an easy time taking initiative, are positive, and have confidence in children's different competencies,
• you value trustful relationships with children and guardians and have good cooperation skills,
• you use pedagogical conversations and pedagogical documentation in your work,
• you use image support and TAKK (Signs as an Alternative and Augmentative Communication),
• you are interested in developing the preschool.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a prerequisite for the position. Great importance will be attached to personal qualities and suitability.
• Within the framework of the National Minority Language Act, Gällivare Municipality is the administrative municipality for Sami, Meänkieli, and Finnish. Knowledge of one of these languages is meritorious when applying for employment in Gällivare Municipality.

A extract from the Police's criminal record register is required for the position, https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/), and you must present a valid license/certificate.

Gällivare Municipality offers you:

• a wellness benefit in the form of strength training, group training, or a day pass at Dundret.
• free swimming/bathing.
• access to the workplace's "Trivselpeng" (well-being allowance).
• a wellness hour per week (mental or physical activity).
• membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's Leisure Association).

Working Hours/Duration

Permanent, 100%. Probationary period may apply.

Salary

Monthly salary – we apply individual salary setting. Please state your salary requirements in your application. As a Sami-speaking childcare assistant at our Sami minority language department, you will also receive a salary supplement of 10%.

Start Date/Application

With your application, we would like to receive a personal letter and your CV. Original documents will be requested upon invitation. Interviews may take place continuously during the application period, so do not wait to send in your application. The appointment is subject to the position not needing to be taken by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons.

Start date: August/September 2026.

Last day for applications: 2026-08-10.

Information

For questions, contact:

Helena Johansson, Principal, Fjälldalen Preschool

phone: 0970-81 80 41

email: [email protected]

Union Representatives

Kommunal tel. 010–4429919

We look forward to receiving your application!