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Do you want meaningful tasks that make a difference in people's lives? Welcome to the municipality that is far from mediocre!

The Department of Culture and Leisure is responsible for the municipality's cultural and leisure activities and works to create accessible, safe, and meaningful environments for residents in Botkyrka. The department's assignments include, among other things, libraries, cultural school, art activities, sports, and open leisure activities. We contribute to vibrant and safe living environments and make it possible for Botkyrka residents to develop their interests. With a meaningful leisure time, people feel better, which strengthens public health.

The business area Art, Library, and Cultural School includes Botkyrka Art Hall, Library Botkyrka, and Botkyrka Cultural School. Library Botkyrka consists of six libraries that are shaped in close interaction with their local areas and with the resident as a co-actor. The library operations have a clear focus on reading and language promotion, accessibility, and outreach activities, with the goal of strengthening equality, participation, and local democracy.

Botkyrka Cultural School offers children and young people the opportunity to participate in various activities and courses in their spare time in music, dance, theater, art, and media. In the cultural school, participants get the opportunity to develop their creative and artistic skills. The operations are located in the cultural school's own premises in Tumba, Tullinge, and Hallunda, and out at the municipality's schools, youth clubs, and sports halls. The cultural school has approx. 1,700 student places and quite a bit of open activities. Every semester, the students invite the public to a large selection of concerts, film screenings, vernissages, dance, and theater performances. Through world orientation, cross-disciplinary operations, and innovation, Botkyrka Cultural School becomes an operation in line with Botkyrka Municipality's motto "Far from mediocre".

The position and tasks

Botkyrka Cultural School is looking for an engaged film and animation pedagogue who is passionate about giving children and young people the opportunity to discover, explore, and develop their own creativity and artistic creation within film and animation, both technically and expressively.

Your assignment is to, together with pedagogical colleagues in dance, music, and theater, receive young people in open creative activities. Your main tasks are:

• teach film/animation
• contribute to the development of the open cross-disciplinary operations
• collaborate closely with colleagues and students in cross-disciplinary projects
• recruit students
• planning and administrative tasks related to the assignment

We offer you

You will be part of a collegium of around 50 engaged, experienced, and well-educated teachers in music, dance, theater, and art/media. Together, we work to develop the cultural school's operations with the changes and opportunities we encounter in our time.

You who apply to us

Requirements: We want you to have adequate higher education for the position or another that is assessed by the employer as equivalent. You have good knowledge of film/animation and experience with different programs for film editing such as Premiere Pro or Stop Motion Studio, as well as work with animation with e.g., iPads. You have experience teaching children and young people and a great interest and experience in developing methodology based on the different needs and prerequisites of children and young people. You are open, fearless, and energetic and ready to try new paths to take advantage of the students' own engagement and their creativity. You must be able to work on Tuesdays.

Merits: You are well acquainted with an intercultural approach and have good experience of having worked and operated in environments characterized by diversity.

To thrive with the assignment, we are looking for you who are cooperative and can work well with others in a listening and smooth way. You are solution-oriented and can contribute ideas and new approaches that lead to results.

For positions at the Department of Culture and Leisure in Botkyrka Municipality, you as a future employee will undergo a background check.

Read more about background checks here: https://www.botkyrka.se/bakgrundskontroll (https://www.botkyrka.se/bakgrundskontroll)

About us

Botkyrka is a municipality full of contrasts where the suburb environment of the big city meets the forests, meadows, lakes, and sea coast of the countryside. Over 100 languages are spoken here, people from all over the world live and work here.

We offer an inspiring workplace full of opportunities where we together create the best conditions for a sustainable future.

We have good and safe working conditions with collective agreements and several benefits so that you will thrive and develop in your job. Read more here: Our employer offer

Other information

For positions within, for example, care-school-care in Botkyrka Municipality, you as a future employee need to show an extract from the Police's criminal record. Botkyrka Municipality is subject to the principle of public access. This means that application documents are public documents as a main rule.

We work with competence-based recruitment to ensure the quality of the recruitment process and thereby counteract discrimination.

We decline contact from recruitment and staffing companies in connection with this recruitment.