About the role and your responsibilities
Welcome to a truly dream job for someone passionate about biology and pedagogy! As a teacher at Spyken, you'll step into a classroom filled with curious, engaged, and knowledge-hungry students. You will teach biology, senior thesis projects, and advanced courses. Your responsibilities include planning, delivering instruction, evaluation, and mentoring. Here you'll be part of a strong and supportive subject department where you collaborate closely, share ideas, and bring biology to life – both in the classroom and in the field.
We're looking for you
We're seeking someone genuinely passionate about biology who, together with our ambitious students and colleagues, wants to shape the future of Spyken. You are qualified to teach biology at the high school level and have experience teaching biology in upper secondary school. If you have additional expertise in biotechnology and/or green biology, along with a deep love for fieldwork, you'll thrive with us!
You have deep subject knowledge and a passion for teaching and learning. As a person, you are resourceful, flexible, and a true team player who brings energy to work groups and classrooms. You are a structured, warm, and positive leader who creates safety, sets clear boundaries, and has a unique ability to build strong, trusting relationships with both students and colleagues. We place great value on your personal qualities and your ability to see, inspire, and meet each student based on their individual needs and interests.
To work with children or students within the school system, you will need to provide an acceptable extract from the criminal record registry (no older than six months) before an employment offer is made. https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/
What we offer you
With us, you don't just get a job – you become part of a warm community at a workplace where we look out for each other. We offer you an inspiring work environment. Lund Municipality is a secure and development-focused employer with many exciting opportunities for your professional growth. You also get access to our benefits portal where you can easily manage your benefits.
Here's what we give you as an employee: https://lund.se/arbete-och-lediga-jobb/sa-ar-det-att-arbeta-med-oss/det-har-ger-vi-dig-som-medarbetare
About the recruitment
In this recruitment process, we've decided to remove the cover letter requirement and replaced it with selection questions. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process.
What we give you as an employee
As an employee with us, you'll join an experienced and helpful team of colleagues, surrounded by ambitious students who make every workday both rewarding and enjoyable. In addition to an inspiring and warm work environment, we offer good opportunities for personal development and professional growth.
About the workplace
At Spyken, everything we do is guided by our vision: "Spyken gives you knowledge, skills, and positive experiences for the future!". The school is known for its fantastic atmosphere, warm culture, and the tremendous commitment of both staff and students.
The Spyken upper secondary school has approximately 1,250 students distributed across the arts program, humanities program, natural sciences program, and social sciences program. We have a strong sense of community where both students and employees feel great involvement and pride in their school. Are you looking for a workplace where you work with wonderful colleagues, great students, and experience true professional fulfillment every day? Then you're warmly welcome to join us at Spyken!
The Education Administration is responsible for upper secondary school, adapted upper secondary school, adult education, international primary school, and mother tongue instruction, with over 1,200 employees. As an employee here, you participate in providing high-quality education with great commitment to our students. We equip students for the future – with the goal that each student reaches their full potential as a person and citizen.
Here you have room to grow. Within Lund Municipality, we place knowledge at the center and create opportunities to develop in your career. We offer an inclusive work environment and a chance to make an impact and make a difference. Want to be one of us?