After-School Teacher – International School in Älmhult

Do you dream of doing something meaningful that makes a difference?

Welcome to Älmhult Municipality – where the opportunities to make a difference in people's everyday life are great! We need committed employees who want to be involved in shaping our municipality going forward. In Älmhult, you combine the advantages and charm of a small town with a unique international atmosphere. Here it is easy to live and stay, and you are close to everything. Good communications also make it easy and convenient to commute.

The International School of Älmhult is a warm, friendly, and welcoming school. We are truly international in many senses. There are over 34 different nationalities and backgrounds represented amongst our students. We also strive to employ a diverse community of teachers. This year we can boast teachers coming from more than 24 different countries. We are an IB school, which means that we are progressive and work to develop the skills for the 21st century and prepare our students for an ever-changing world. ISÄ is a member of a newly founded Playful Schools Leadership Network, as a Pioneer school, that strives to inspire and to become more playful. In our teacher collaborations, the focus for the coming years will be teacher inquiries connected to various learning needs. In 2017, we moved into our new home: a modern and eco-friendly building, with a lot of open space and light. The school is in the town of Älmhult, southern Sweden, which is a safe and convenient place for families to live.

Work Tasks

As an after-school/Fritids teacher, you work with students between the ages of 6-12. Your responsibility is to ensure that children have a meaningful leisure time before, during, and after school by creating and developing a safe and secure environment that attracts and challenges children to play and to learn. To do so, you work together in a small team of 7 Fritids staff. As an after-school teacher, you are responsible for planning and working in after-school activities, working as a one-to-one student support both in-class and in Fritids, or in-class support in the classrooms. You will also plan for and take part in break activities, attend required meetings/educations, and work interdisciplinary with staff at the school and other schools.

Qualifications

The successful applicant is an excellent, flexible, and effective communicator in all forms of English – written and spoken. You have a Bachelor's degree in teaching, preferably as an after-school pedagogue, or an appropriate level of education (university or similar) that the employer values as equal.

You also need to be able to:

• respond positively to change
• collaborate effectively
• work positively and effectively with staff and parents

Knowledge in the Swedish Fritids curriculum as well as the IB PYP curriculum is preferred, as well as experience in working at an International After-School Programme.

Form of employment: Temporary employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, commencement: 2026-08-10. Ongoing recruitment where interviews may be held prior to the closing date, termination: 2027-08-09.

Before employment, a copy of your criminal record is required. Please apply for a criminal record extract already if you are contacted for an interview.

Älmhult Municipality applies competence-based recruitment and therefore does not accept cover letters. The selection process is instead based on your CV, screening questions, and interviews related to the requirements of the position. The recruitment process will be ongoing and interviews may be held prior to the advertisement closing date. Please do not delay with your application.

You can read more about what it is like to work for Älmhult Municipality here:

https://www.almhult.se/jobba-hos-oss (https://www.almhult.se/jobba-hos-oss)

Before employment, you must be able to demonstrate that you have the right to work in accordance with the Aliens Ordinance. This means that you need to verify your EU/EEA or Swiss citizenship by presenting a passport, national ID card, or a certificate of personal data together with an identity document. If you are unable to do so, you must instead present a valid work permit or otherwise prove that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.

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