Cello Teacher for the Cultural School

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with excellent opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you have close access to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us! The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day, we provide people with experiences while building, developing, and influencing today’s and tomorrow’s society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the daily lives of Gävle residents. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developmental job. We ensure that Gävle grows and provides exciting experiences for its residents. The Culture School is a unique meeting place for music and theater, visual arts and film, circus and dance for children and youth up to 20 years old. We have age-divided groups in visual arts, circus, dance, film, photography, choir singing, theater, music, and several orchestras and ensembles every week. Children and youth can play an instrument at their regular school during the day or with us in the afternoon or evening. Together, we are about 50 educators and administrative staff. We have a large operation with over 2,500 activities each week and collaborate with the municipality's primary schools and in the neighborhoods. Our activities are characterized by dedicated educators who work for a broadened target group. Please read more about us and our activities on our website: http://www.gavle.se/kulturskolan JOB DESCRIPTION At the Culture School in Gävle, we are looking for a cello educator who is passionate about guiding and inspiring children and youth in the world of music. Our goal is to offer meaningful activities for our students, and we seek someone who shares our vision. Come and help us make Gävle's music scene accessible to everyone! As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to shape and inspire the next generation of musicians while actively contributing to creating an inclusive and positive meeting place for children and youth. As a string educator at the Culture School, you will be part of our work with El Sistema. You will be part of an engaged team but will also have independent responsibilities. Your focus will be on inspiring and motivating students with the cello as their main instrument. Just as we do, you value diversity and inclusion and strive to reach children and youth from all parts of society. The position includes activities during school holidays, and there may also be work in the evenings and on weekends. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for a passionate and skilled cello educator who is eager to teach children from grade 1 and up. To be suitable for this position, you need to have a high level of proficiency in cello and a genuine desire and ability to inspire your students. You will lead both group and individual lessons, and it is advantageous if you have previous experience in music education as well as a university degree in pedagogy or music. Training in the Suzuki method is also a merit. As a person, you are empathetic and have a remarkable ability to truly see your students. You build positive and trusting relationships, which makes your students feel safe and inspired by you. You encourage personal development and joy in learning. Your flexibility and adaptability allow you to meet each student’s unique needs. To offer engaging and well-structured lessons, you are skilled at planning and organizing, and you work efficiently to create a stimulating learning environment. You must be able to provide a police clearance certificate for work in schools or preschools. This should not be included with your application. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis during the application period. We look forward to your application! OTHER To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and to facilitate good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally. Within Gävle Municipality, there is a decision regarding the right to full-time employment, meaning that permanent employees can request that their position be a full-time role. This request must be met within six months, calculated from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time employment fulfilled, you may need to perform other tasks than those normally included in your position. Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it could be an asset. In preparation for the recruitment process, Gävle Municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask to refrain from contacting media salespeople, recruitment sites, and similar entities.