Sámi-Speaking Childcare Worker at Fjälldalen Preschool

Activity Description Hello! Are you our new childcare worker colleague at Fjälldalen Preschool? We are now seeking a Sámi-speaking childcare worker for our Sámi minority language department, Heavdni. Fjälldalen Preschool is a preschool with six departments where nature and the mountains are close at hand, and as an educator you will have a unique opportunity to be part of 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 long-term work at the preschool. In preschool we meet our children in their first education and in their first steps in lifelong learning, and that is where you as an educator are important. Read more about working in preschool: https://gallivare.se/lararjobb Work Tasks The preschool curriculum (Lpfö18) describes the preschool's values and mission and contains goals and guidelines for the work in preschool. Children in preschool shall receive a safe education where care, development and learning form a whole. Work as a childcare worker means that you, together with your work team, create a safe and developmental education for the children at the preschool. The work is challenging, exciting, creative and takes place in close collaboration with your work team and colleagues at the preschool. As a childcare worker, you are part of a work team and participate in planning, implementation and evaluation of the education offered to the children. You collaborate with your work team and together you offer the children fun and educational instruction. Qualifications We are looking for you who are trained as a childcare worker (alternatively other education that the employer considers equivalent) and speak Sámi (for example Northern Sámi or Lule Sámi). It is important: that you are familiar with our governing document, Curriculum for Preschool (Lpfö18), that you are a confident and clear leader, have a flair for taking your own initiative, are positive and have trust in children's various competencies, that you care about trusting relationships with children and guardians and that you have good collaboration skills, that you use pedagogical conversations and pedagogical documentation in your work, that you use visual supports and TAKK (signs as alternative and supplementary communication), that you are interested in developing the preschool. Very good skills in Swedish both spoken and written are a requirement for the position. Great importance will be placed on personal qualities and personal suitability. Within the framework of the national minority language law, Gällivare Municipality is the administrative municipality for Sámi, Meänkieli and Finnish. Knowledge of any of these languages is a merit in applications for employment in Gällivare Municipality. The position requires a certificate from the Police Criminal Records Register, https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ and that you present identification. Gällivare Municipality offers you: wellness benefits in the form of strength training, group training or a day pass to Dundret. free swimming. you get to participate in the workplace's Wellness Allowance. one wellness hour per week (mental or physical activity). membership in GKFF (Gällivare Municipality's leisure association). Work Time/Duration Permanent, 100%. Trial employment may be applied. Salary Monthly salary – we apply individual salary setting. Please state your salary expectations in your application. As a Sámi-speaking childcare worker at our Sámi minority language department, you also receive a salary supplement of 10%. Start Date/Application With your application we would like you to include a personal letter and your CV. Upon request, original documents will be shown. Interviews may take place continuously during the application period, so do not delay in submitting your application. Filling of the position is subject to the condition that the position does not need to be used by existing staff due to redundancy or other reasons. Start date: fall 2026. Application Deadline: 2026-09-01 Information For questions, please contact: Helena Johansson, Principal of Fjälldalen Preschool phone: 0970-81 80 41 email: [email protected] Trade Union Representatives Kommunal tel. 010–4429919 We warmly welcome your application!

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