100% position as principal at Odda secondary school

Odda secondary school

Odda junior high school is centrally located in Eidesmoen, surrounded by the municipality's largest area for sports and games. This school year, the school has 204 wonderful young people, divided into three classes at each level. The school management consists of the headmaster, two department heads, a social worker/counselor, mercantile, health nurse and librarian.

Odda junior high school is a collective school where the professional community works together to ensure that all pupils get the best possible social and professional development. Our vision can be summed up in this sentence: "You don't get worse by doing good to others."

At Odda junior high school, we are preoccupied with a culture of sharing for the good of both pupils and staff.

The position is available from 01.12.26.

Our standard for principals;

Tasks for the principal:

• Good business management: Ensure efficient operation of the school.
• Challenge and support employees: Create a safe and good working environment that enables employees to carry out their work efficiently and with commitment.
• Create and develop the learning community: Create a culture for learning in an inclusive, safe and good school environment.
• Reputation building: Further develop the school's good reputation.
• Cooperation with FAU and supervisors: Build and maintain a good and trusting cooperation with supervisors
• Plan and carry out training: Ensure varied and future-oriented training of high quality with good progression.

Cooperation:

• Contribute to the leadership community: Be an active participant in the leadership community within school and municipal initiatives.
• Participate in teaching teams: Be an active participant and contributor in learning communities and teaching teams at schools.

Qualifications for the position:

• Education and formal competence for the relevant school type, and experience from primary school is desirable.
• Experience as a manager from school and training.
• Further education in education/school management is a plus.
• Experience in leading change and participation processes.
• Knowledge of the new curriculum and the new Education Act.
• Competence in varied working methods and forms of assessment.
• Good understanding of economics and experience with work related to budgets and accounting.
• Good digital skills.
• Good communication skills both verbally and in writing.

Personal qualifications are emphasized.

Personal characteristics:

• Positive outlook: You see the best in other people.
• Clear thoughts about the good school: You know what makes a good school and can put it into practice.
• Ambitious for the students and the school: You have high expectations for the success of the students and the school.
• Visible and listening: You are present and take care of others.
• Development-oriented and goal-oriented: You work to improve and reach goals.
• Good leadership style: You build good relationships and communicate clearly with pupils, parents and staff.
• Value of team spirit, openness and trust: You understand the importance of cooperation and mutual respect.
• Builds good learning systems: You are preoccupied with establishing good learning environments at all levels.
• Contribute to the whole: You see your mission as part of improving the entire Ullensvang School and the upbringing sector.

We offer:

We are looking for a headmaster who has high ambitions for the entire education sector. This position gives you challenges and exciting opportunities for development.

• Professional community: Support through network meetings for new rectors and participation in a strong rectors' collegium.
• Mercantile support: Access to mercantile support that takes care of privacy and GDPR.
• Interdisciplinary team: An interdisciplinary team is available to help the school with challenges and coordinate services when needed.
• Resource team: Resource team whose aim is to contribute to early intervention and interdisciplinary focus for children and young people. This team is linked to the pupils' free time, with participants from various services within the municipality and the police.
• Leadership development: Opportunities for leadership development through both formal and informal activities.

Terms

• Salary: According to the municipality's remuneration model for managers.
• Start-up: By agreement.

Relevant diplomas and certificates must be attached to the application.

There is a requirement for an approved police certificate for the person appointed to the position.

Welcome to those who apply to us in Ullensvangkulen!

Cancellation of education debt/student loans:

Ullensvang municipality is covered by the scheme.

Anyone who lives in one of the 189 municipalities on Statistics Norway's centrality levels 5 and 6 can have NOK 25,000 of their education debt written off in the year from January 2026. You must have lived in one of these municipalities, and be employed, for at least one year. You will have your education debt written off every year, until the debt is paid off. The measure applies to all types of education debt, regardless of when it was taken out. A person who lives in one of these municipalities from 1 January 2025, or moves there at any time after this date, will be eligible to have his debt canceled after one year of living.

For information on the Public Law Act:

The starting point is that all applicant names are public according to the Public Affairs Act. This means that your name will be made public on the municipality's mailing list when you have applied for a vacant position.

In order to make an exception, the municipality must have a legal basis and assess concretely in each case what is the reason for the exception.

Pursuant to section 25 of the Public Administration Act, the following requirements are met in order to obtain an exemption:

"However, an exception can be made for information about an applicant if the person concerned himself requests it. When assessing whether such an invitation should be accepted, emphasis must be placed on whether there is a particular public interest in the position. In the advertisement, attention must be drawn to the fact that information about the applicant can be made public even if the applicant has requested not to be included on the applicant list. If the request is not accepted, the applicant must be notified of this.

Employment agreements in Ullensvang municipality:

Those who are appointed in Ullensvang municipality will be sent an employment agreement for digital signing. You will be sent an SMS and e-mail with a link to a digital employment agreement. If you have received verbal notification that you have been appointed, you will be sent an employment agreement. If you do not receive an e-mail in your inbox, check your junk e-mail/spam, or follow the following link: https://signering.posten.no/

Link to application form: Apply hereAbout the employer:

- a new, viable and attractive municipality in Hardanger.

Ullensvang municipality is an attractive place to live, work and start a business! We can offer exciting and meaningful work assignments in a municipality that is developing. Here you will find fjords, mountains, forests, fruit, agriculture, aquaculture and world-leading industry in one and the same municipality. The municipality has approximately 10,967 inhabitants, where Odda is the administrative center of the municipality surrounded by strong settlements.

Our mission is to deliver good services, be a good community developer and work for further growth and development in the municipality. Through motivated and skilled employees, we solve this important social mission, and would like to have more people join the team.

We want employees with different backgrounds, subject combinations, competence, life experience and perspective. It gives us a diverse working environment that puts us in a better position to solve the tasks. In Ullensvang municipality, we are concerned with diversity and inclusion, it is important for us to have a workforce that represents the population. We encourage everyone who is qualified to apply, regardless of age, gender and gender identity, functional ability, outlook on life or ethnic background. We prepare the workplace if necessary.

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