Teacher of Mother Tongue German in Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its beautiful natural surroundings with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents, but expects significant growth in the coming years. Lerum is located just a 20-minute drive from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle named Lerum the winner in the category of large municipalities (2025) – an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities regarding schools, healthcare and social care, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business life, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. Lerum is, in short, a Super Municipality!

The Multilingualism Unit organizes mother tongue instruction, study guidance, and reception of newly arrived students. The teachers at the unit teach in 24 different languages.

Through collegial learning, we continuously strive to improve and develop pedagogical practice. Our focus is on pedagogical development, professionalism, and job satisfaction. The unit has meeting rooms and workspaces at Torpskolan, centrally located in Lerum and easily accessible by train/bus.

1 Position(s)

Job Responsibilities

Your assignment includes teaching students in mother tongue German for both primary and upper secondary school. Study guidance may also be part of the role. You participate with motivation and enthusiasm in the meetings and competence development activities that occur for your professional learning.

You plan, implement, evaluate, and develop the pedagogical work both independently and together with the work team. The work team meets once a week for collegial learning and development of the operations, where you practice, test, and share. The unit is divided into forum groups to create participation in the unit's common goal picture.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a positive force at work and have an easy time creating and maintaining good social relationships with those you meet, such as colleagues, students, and guardians.

You are developmental in your leadership and employee management. You are flexible in your pedagogical approach and meet students with respect, encouragement, and high expectations. In meetings with pedagogical staff at schools, you are collaborative and solution-oriented while being skilled at communicating what your assignment entails.

Requirements: You have didactic knowledge of German and good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written. Mother tongue teacher certification is desirable. For a permanent position, teacher certification is required, but note that this position is a substitute position. At least upper secondary education or equivalent is required.

Knowledge of the Swedish school system's governing documents. The work requires that you are proficient in handling digital tools.

Merits:

• University courses in education.
• Previous teaching experience.
• Driver's license and access to a car are desirable as part of the position is mobile.

To work with children and young people, a certificate of good conduct from the Police is required. You order it yourself via the Police website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/digitalt-registerutdrag/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/digitalt-registerutdrag/)

The recruitment process takes place continuously during the application period, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Employment Conditions

• Employment Type: Fixed-term employment.
• Duration: 6 months or longer.
• Start Date: 2026-08-12
• End Date: 2027-06-16
• Working Hours: Daytime.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our management is based on the global goals in Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, operations, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and offensive treatment.

We value a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee, you have access to a range of benefits, such as a wellness allowance and staff care programs.

Lerum Municipality is covered by the Main Agreement HÖK and the General Provisions AB collective agreement. We apply individual and differentiated salary setting, and the individual salary is influenced by both the complexity of the position and your competence and experience.

In accordance with the Pay Transparency Directive, we have made salary statistics available on our website, and you can find information about our collective agreement, staff benefits, and the applicable salary range for the current position here:

https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/jobb-och-foretagande/jobba-hos-oss/din-lon-och-dina-formaner)

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To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

We warmly welcome your application!

In connection with this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers regarding competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.