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About the Employer

Hi! Are you our new colleague at Fjälldalen Preschool?

Fjälldalen Preschool is a preschool with six departments where nature and the mountain are close by, 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 join 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 in their first steps in lifelong learning – and you as an educator 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 (Lpfö 18) describes the preschool's core values 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 preschool assistant involves designing a secure and developmental environment for the children together with the work team. The work is challenging, exciting, and creative, and takes place in close collaboration with your work team and colleagues at the preschool. As a preschool assistant, you are part of a work team and participate in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the activities offered to the children. You and your team offer the children a fun and educational environment.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are educated as a preschool assistant or who are studying to become one, or alternatively have other education that the employer assesses as equivalent.

It is important that:

• you are familiar with our governing document, the Curriculum for the Preschool (Lpfö 18),
• you are a secure and clear leader, have the ability to take initiative, are positive, and trust in children's various 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 visual aids and PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) / TAKK (Signing 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 emphasis will be placed on 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 any of these languages is meritorious when applying for employment in Gällivare Municipality.

A certificate from the Police's criminal record register (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/)) and valid professional credentials are required for the position.

What Gällivare Municipality Offers You:

• Wellness benefit in the form of strength training, group exercise, or day passes at Dundret.
• Free swimming.
• Access to the workplace's "Trivselpeng" (well-being fund).
• One wellness hour per week (mental or physical activity).
• Membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's Leisure Association).

Working Hours/Duration

Temporary position, full-time – August/September 2026 to June 11, 2027.

Salary

Monthly salary – we apply individual salary setting. Please state your salary expectations in your application.

Start Date/Application

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

Start date: August/September 2026

Application deadline: 2026-08-05

Information

For questions, please contact:

Helena Johansson, Principal of Fjälldalen Preschool

Phone: +46 970-81 80 41

Email: [email protected]

Union Representatives

Kommunal

010–4429919

We look forward to receiving your application!