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Do you want to make Gävle even better with us?

In Gävle Municipality, we work together with dedication to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust, where you can develop professionally and grow as a person. We look forward to receiving your application!

About the Position

We are now looking for two teachers for grades Pre-K to 3 who wish to join our team at Staffansskolan Staffan and Brynäs, starting in the autumn term of 2026. These two school buildings are centrally located in Gävle and cover operations from Pre-K to Grade 6.

Staffanskolan Brynäs has new, beautiful facilities and a pleasant outdoor environment for all students in grades 3–6. Staffanskolan Staffans offers operations for all students from Pre-K to Grade 2, with adaptations and space for the needs of younger children.

The school also has hearing-impaired classes. Here, we have a diversity of languages and cultures that provide opportunities for different working methods and approaches. To give our students the best conditions for success, and to ensure the school is accessible to all students, our starting point is an NPF-safe (Neurodevelopmental Disorders) school with a strong focus on digitalization.

We value student participation and influence in both teaching and other contexts where the student is present. In daily life at our school, many good encounters are created that strengthen students' social competence. Safe, clear adults provide a calm environment with peace and joy in work. At our school, it is important that all staff are aware and work based on the school's value base.

If you feel that you would like to be involved in continuing to develop Staffansskolan Staffan and Brynäs together with us, we look forward to your application!

Job Responsibilities

Are you a person who builds strong relationships, is driven by leading and inspiring others, and wants to contribute to a positive and developing learning environment? Do you want to be the person who gets to follow your students from Pre-K up to Grade 3? Then this might be the job for you.

Together with your colleagues in Pre-K, you contribute to a joyful, varied, and high-quality school day where student development and well-being are in focus. You support and challenge students so that they achieve good academic results and adapt teaching to their different needs and prerequisites. The work is carried out in close collaboration with other educators, student health services, guardians, and external actors, and is performed according to current goals and guidelines.

Your responsibilities include among other things:

• Planning, conducting, assessing, and evaluating teaching.
• Working with mapping of students' needs and adapting teaching to their prerequisites.

Qualifications

In this role, you actively contribute to a culture where we together take responsibility for creating the best conditions for students' learning and development. You are happy to share your ideas, take in others' perspectives, and see collegial learning as a natural part of the assignment.

We are looking for you who:

• Have teacher certification with eligibility to teach in grades Pre-K to 3.
• Are familiar with and have knowledge of the curriculum for compulsory school.
• Have the ability to express yourself well in the Swedish language, both orally and in writing, as this is required in work dialogues with colleagues, guardians, and students.
• Have experience and knowledge of working with digital tools.

To succeed in the role, you have:

• A natural ability to lead and motivate students and to make them happy and well.
• The ability to create trustful relationships with students, guardians, and colleagues, and have a good and unpretentious approach in your way of collaborating.
• An inclusive working style that makes every student feel a sense of belonging and security.
• The ability to create calm and clarity in both groups and in meetings with individual students.
• The ability to plan and organize your work well.

Note: The final candidate must be able to produce a certificate from the police regarding their criminal record for work within school or preschool. This should not be attached to your application.

Employment Type

Permanent employment.

What We Offer You

You are important to us! As an employee in Gävle Municipality, you have:

• Generous holiday conditions, and as a new employee, you also have the right to paid holiday already during your first year of employment.
• Compensation for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months.
• Several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example, sickness insurance and work injury insurance are included.

Read more about our benefits here: gavle.se/formaner (https://www.gavle.se/formaner)

Our Value Base

Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for solving our assignment in the best way. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily lives, it is important that we base ourselves on our jointly stated values.

Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work in Gävle Municipality here: gavle.se/jobbahososs (https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs)

Here you can read more about our organization: gavle.se/organisation (https://www.gavle.se/organisation)

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be an asset.

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