Principal for School Area 10, Lärjeskolan F-9 and Adapted Primary School 7-9

In the Hjällbo area of Gothenburg, an exciting opportunity has arisen for you who are interested in leading and developing schools. We are seeking a principal for School Area 10, Lärjeskolan F-9 and the adapted primary school for grades 7–9. This position has become available as the current principal is relocating from Gothenburg. As a principal, you will be part of the principal group in the North-East education area, led by the education manager. **Job Responsibilities** As a principal for a school area, you are a key person with access to support from the administration in various areas such as administration, finance, HR, quality and development work, digitalization, analysis, and legal matters. You delegate responsibilities and authority and are ultimately responsible for the continuous development of the schools in the area, ensuring they are effective organizations. Based on governing documents and a scientific approach, you focus on ensuring the quality of education and clear leadership in classrooms/after-school care, to create an efficient and successful school. The City of Gothenburg works towards a good and sustainable everyday life where you, as a principal, have the opportunity to develop and combine challenging tasks with a meaningful daily life both at work and outside of it. Together, we pave the way for the school of the future, where we aim to see increased equity among schools so that all students have access to high-quality education and can compensate for varying student conditions. **Description of the School Area** Located in the heart of Hjällbo center, Lärjeskolan is a newly built school with a fantastic environment both indoors and outdoors, and together with the adapted primary school for grades 7–9, it constitutes School Area 10 for grades F–9. Here, you will have the opportunity, along with three assistant principals, to lead an operation that spans from preschool class to grade 9, including the adapted primary school 7-9. This is a unique opportunity for you who wish to work in a dynamic environment where you can contribute to students' learning and personal development throughout their primary school years. **Qualifications** We are looking for candidates who have the following qualifications: • A university degree equivalent to 180 credits, with pedagogy as part of the education. • Several years of managerial experience in schools or preschools as a principal or assistant principal, or other equivalent managerial experience. • Principal training. • Knowledge of laws and regulations as well as other governing documents at the national level for all school and operational forms within primary education. • Knowledge of financial management and resource allocation. • Knowledge of laws and regulations and collective agreements related to employer responsibilities. • Experience in systematic quality work and workplace environment work. For the position, it is advantageous if you: • Have completed leadership or management development programs/training. • Have participated in management development programs to lead other managers. • Have experience leading other managers. • Have experience from cross-administrative development work. • Have leadership experience in socio-economically disadvantaged areas and collaboration with external actors in this context. You can effectively identify and analyze the core of a problem and propose possible solutions. You can overview your own area of responsibility and place the significance of your own operations in a broader context. You show interest in and collaborate on overarching issues to create added value. You listen to others to understand their needs. You actively seek others' opinions and perspectives 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 actions. You are a clear and effective communicator who gains support for thoughts and ideas and can influence decisions in a certain direction. You work well with others by listening, showing interest, and respect. You understand the common mission and work to make it as successful as possible. Do you want to work together to ensure everyone succeeds? Then you are the one we are looking for! We warmly welcome your application! Interviews will take place on December 15. In this recruitment, we will not request a personal letter as part of the application. Instead, you will be asked to answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competencies in the requested areas. **Other Information** As an employee in our administration, you will be offered, among other things, wellness grants, bicycle benefits, and employee support. According to the Education Act, a criminal record extract must be presented by individuals before they are employed in preschool activities, schools, and school-age childcare. You can order this from the Police's website. In preparation for this recruitment, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and therefore kindly decline further offers of competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance. We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. **About Us** We are creating the future in Gothenburg – one lesson at a time. Every weekday, thousands of