Mentor for Correspondence High School in Torsås Municipality

Torsås Municipality – a municipality with proximity and quality of life in southern Kalmar County. The municipality, with approximately 7,000 inhabitants, can be described as a miniature Sweden. Here you will find the sea, the coast, the beaches, the plains, the lakes, and the forests. The business life is dominated by manufacturing industry but also has great potential within tourism and other areas. Here we can offer a high quality of life with proximity and great security for residents and visitors. Torsås Municipality has five administrations and two wholly owned companies.

In Torsås Municipality, we dare to come up with new solutions, think big thoughts, and bring exciting ideas. To succeed, we work closely together. We collaborate towards a common goal; to give everyone who lives here the best conditions for a good life. That we are close to each other is evident in that we take advantage of each other's strengths. That administrations and operations work closely together also means that it is never far between employee and manager, which in turn leads to short decision-making paths and close cooperation.

Torsås Municipality's value base is built on the words Participation, Development, Clarity, and Security. An approach that every employee and elected official shows in daily work and in meetings with citizens and customers.

About Korrespondensgymnasiet

Korrespondensgymnasiet is a high school that offers distance education for entire programs in the EK, HU, SA, and NA programs. Our school targets students with documented medical, psychological, or social issues, or who have other special reasons (e.g., elite sports training or living abroad). The school's approx. 550 students live in different parts of Sweden and the world.

To meet our students' needs, we work with teaching groups where our approach is individualized and flexible, which places demands on high and broad competence among everyone who works with us.

The Position

The position is a temporary assignment extending from 2026-08-03 to 2027-06-17. It concerns 1 position.

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for a mentor with the task of having an overarching view of the students' study situation and, based on that, together with teaching teachers, work teams, student health services, study and career guidance, administration, and guardians, work to ensure that the students complete their studies within the specified study time in accordance with national steering documents and goals.

Qualifications

We are looking for You with a strong commitment to young people, who is open to new ways of working, has a positive view of people, is responsible and result-oriented, and who gladly takes on new challenges. We place great importance on these personal qualities. The operation is based on continuous collaboration and development, which means that you have a great ability to collaborate with others.

Educational requirements are set for the position. Education considered suitable includes: Youth Leader, Teaching Assistant, Social Pedagogue, or other equivalent education assessed by the responsible manager. Great weight is placed on personal suitability.

Experience is meritorious and desirable.

Torsås Municipality has a well-established value base that permeates the entire operation and is based on participation, development, clarity, and security. It is important that your value base matches ours and that you want to work for a good and positive work environment.

We recruit continuously, so send in your application today.

Employment Terms

• Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
• Duration: 6 months or longer. Start date: 2026-08-03 or by agreement. End date: 2027-06-17.
• Working Hours: Daytime. We offer flexible working forms, 50/50 (on-site 50% and 50% flexible location) with the starting point at Korrespondensgymnasiet in Söderåkra, which means that staff according to schedule can work from a location other than our premises.

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore welcoming applicants with different backgrounds.

Regarding the recruitment process, we have taken a stand on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

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We warmly welcome your application!