Bilingual Early Childhood Education Teacher

As a bilingual early childhood education teacher, you will lead a team, act as pedagogical leader and community builder. Your duties include leading the team and organizing daily operations to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing in line with the objectives of early childhood education legislation; co-creating learning environments with your team where curiosity and joy are visible in every corner; planning activities so that every child is met and heard as their true self; creating everyday routines that nurture emotional skills, interaction and collaboration, and initiating preventive support quickly; developing pedagogy with colleagues while strengthening an encouraging atmosphere and a developing organizational culture; actively collaborating with guardians, multi-professional networks and local actors in a genuinely collaborative spirit. We offer a permanent position with impact on your own work; a community where participation, shared learning and pedagogical courage are everyday; a culture for professional growth and trying new approaches; a flexible employment arrangement; excellent employment benefits: an exceptionally broad employee benefit program – over 90 carefully selected benefits spanning travel, wellbeing and everyday experiences, up to 25% discounts, ePassi, and extensive occupational health services. We expect you to hold the qualification for a kindergarten teacher and to be fluent in Swedish and Finnish; the ability to lead and inspire a team and utilise its diverse strengths; a desire to make early childhood education inspiring and heart-led; pedagogical courage, proactive development mindset and ability to think outside the box; the ability to meet every child genuinely and see potential in each child; for work with children a criminal record extract is required in accordance with the Act on the background check for persons working with children (504/2002).