Assistant Principal at Påarps School

Helsingborgs kommun · plný úvazek

Stortorget 17, Helsingborg, Švédsko

Are you curious, driven, and a good listener who wants to help continue developing Påarps School? We welcome your application! About the Workplace Helsingborg's city schools are a resource-rich and values-driven organization. As an employee, you will be an important part of our shared vision to create the best school for every child and student. Located just outside Helsingborg, you'll find Påarps School, an F-9 school (grades 1-9) with both regular primary school and adapted primary school. We have approximately 500 students and are a small school with big ambitions. With us, you will encounter a collaborative culture and a strong will to work together. "Together" is a word that resonates in both small and large matters. Relationship, communication, and motivation are our three guiding principles that permeate both structure, content, and collaboration with the outside world. It's important to us that students feel that we are all here for them, regardless of profession. The school has a competent student support team with special education teachers, student counselors, school nurses, and access to school psychologists. Job Responsibilities You are part of a management group with the principal and a colleague assistant principal who together have overall responsibility for the school. As an assistant principal, you have operational responsibility including budgets, student matters, and personnel management. You lead results and quality work in dialogue with your colleagues. As a pedagogical leader, you help drive the school's values and work toward set goals. While you support teachers, you also challenge them regarding school development. Development work is an important part of your duties, and you are expected to actively drive development in areas such as pedagogy, results-enhancing measures, and systematic quality work. You systematically monitor the achievement of operational goals and become an important part of strengthening the school's development work. The position also includes responsibility for other related administrative tasks. What We Offer We offer you a varied, responsible, and stimulating position with opportunities for personal development. The workplace is smoke-free and health-conscious. As an employee, you receive a wellness allowance of 3,000 kronor per year. Qualifications You are well familiar with the governing documents, laws, and agreements that regulate our operations and have experience with systematic quality work. You have a teaching degree and personal experience with teaching work in primary school with an F-9 perspective on student learning. Experience working in grades 4-9 or adapted school is a merit. In your previous school positions, you have held some form of leadership role, such as assistant principal, process leader, or team leader with good results for at least three years. You also have experience driving and maintaining development work within the school's operational areas with good results for at least three years. You lead and inspire your colleagues through active and visible leadership that creates strong engagement and participation among your team. You have a good ability to gain an overview of work, think strategically and long-term. Structure and organization come naturally to you. You are a decisive, structured, driven, and reliable person. You have excellent communication skills and can build trust in dialogue with colleagues, students, guardians, and other stakeholders such as labor organizations. Through professional, attentive, and clear communication, you handle both everyday contacts and more challenging conversations in a way that strengthens collaboration between home and school and contributes to good relationships. Great importance will be placed on your profile and competence complementing and contributing to the further development of the current management group. Working for the City of Helsingborg Want to help create a better city together with Helsingborg's residents? Then you should work for the City of Helsingborg. Here you can use your creativity and drive to make life easier and safer for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Together with curious and helpful colleagues, you make a difference in people's lives, both today and in the future. A good job today, a better city tomorrow. You can read more about what it's like to work for the city here: https://helsingborg.se/arbete/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-staden/ Other Information We will hold interviews on September 22 and 23. If you are called for an interview, we ask that you prepare an extract from the criminal records register and a certificate of solvency. Deadline for applications: September 13, 2026 Employment type: Permanent vacation replacement Scope: 100% Start date: January 11, 2027 Number of positions: 1 In the City of Helsingborg, we appreciate diversity. We strive for our employees to reflect our residents and value the benefits that gender balance and diversity bring to our operations. The position is filled on the condition that the position does not need to be used for already permanently employed colleagues. If you are offered a position in preschool, school, or open leisure activities, you must provide a valid extract from the police's criminal records register. To ensure quality in Helsingborg's recruitment process, we use the recruitment tool ReachMee. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via ReachMee by clicking the application link in the announcement. Your CV and other documents relevant to the position, such as educational certificates or professional credentials, must be attached to your application. You will also answer selection questions. If you are applying for a job and have protected personal information, please contact the recruiting manager listed in the announcement who will guide you through a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link. Since we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we politely but firmly decline further contact regarding additional offers of competency brokering, advertising, and recruitment assistance.