Principal Sydväst 8 Brottkärrsskolan and Nygårdsskolan

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN · Full-time

Göteborgs Stad, Göteborg, Sweden

Description School Area Sydväst 8 consists of Brottkärrsskolan (F-6) and Nygårdsskolan (F-9). The schools are located in Nya Hovås and Billdal and have a combined total of approximately 900 students. What distinguishes the school area is high goal attainment and strong engagement from both students and staff. We are now seeking a new principal to continue strengthening and developing the operations. Responsibilities As principal, you work through the school area's management group and delegate responsibility, authority, and management tasks to your assistant principals. You are ultimately responsible for the school's continuous development and for maintaining a purposeful and efficient organization. Furthermore, you hold the formal ultimate financial, legal, and pedagogical responsibility for the school area. As principal, you are part of the principal group for the education area Sydväst. In the principal group, you and your principal colleagues contribute to collegial learning and support the education director's decision-making based on responsibility for overall quality and equity. In this role, you have access to support from the administration in areas such as administration, finance, HR, quality and development work, digitalization, analysis, and legal matters. We are looking for someone who wants to be part of developing the school area with a focus on professional mission. Based on our policy documents and with a scientific approach, we place teaching quality and clear leadership in classrooms/after-school programs at the center. Qualifications We are looking for someone with the following qualifications: a higher education degree equivalent to 180 credits where pedagogy was part of the education multiple years of management experience in school or preschool as a principal or assistant principal, or equivalent management experience principals training knowledge of laws and regulations and other policy documents at the national level for all school forms and activities within compulsory education knowledge of financial management and resource allocation knowledge of laws and regulations and collective agreements that relate to employer responsibility experience with systematic quality work and work environment efforts For this position, it is also advantageous if you: have completed a management or leadership development program/course have completed a management development program for leading other managers have experience leading other managers have experience with cross-administrative development work Personal Competencies: You can effectively identify and analyze the core of a problem and propose possible solutions. You can oversee your own area of responsibility and place your operation's significance in a broader context. You show interest in and collaborate on overarching issues to create added value. You listen to other people in order to understand their needs. You actively seek others' perspectives and viewpoints and are receptive to them by showing respect, consideration, and care. You are motivated by clearly defined goals and have the ability to translate these into concrete action. You are a clear and effective communicator who gains acceptance for your thoughts and ideas and can influence decisions in a certain direction. Is this you? We warmly welcome your application! Interviews will be held on 15/10 in the afternoon and 16/10 in the morning. In this recruitment, we will not request a personal letter as an application document. Instead, you as an applicant will answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. Other Information Göteborg City applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can find more information about, among other things, salary statistics: Salary, Compensation and Benefits - Göteborg City As an employee in our administration, you are offered, among other things, wellness allowance, bicycle benefit, and employee support. According to the Education Act, a certificate from the police criminal record register must be presented by persons before they are employed in preschool activities, school, and school childcare. You order this on the Police website. For this recruitment, we have decided on recruitment channels and therefore we ask you not to make further offers of recruitment services, advertising, and recruitment assistance. We only accept applications through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. About Us We create the future in Göteborg – one lesson at a time Every day, thousands of children and young people meet in our schools – with them we shape Göteborg's future. In the compulsory education administration, we are 10,000 committed employees working together to ensure all students succeed and grow, regardless of background or circumstances. You have an important role in creating an equitable school with high quality, where you both get to develop and develop the operations. You build knowledge, community, and future hope together with your colleagues. With us, you get to make a difference – for real. Göteborg's compulsory education administration is responsible for the city's approximately 140 municipal schools, from preschool class to grade 9, adapted compulsory education, after-school programs, and culture school. Welcome to work near the forest, the city, or the sea. We are Göteborg.