Ledig stilling: Rektor Samisk VGS og reindriftsskole i Kautokeino (21)

Leder For A Sami Power Center In Kautokeino

Are you motivated by the community mission to uphold Sami language, culture, and traditions? We are looking for an experienced, inclusive, and unifying rector who can lead and develop the school and create a safe, calm, and strong community inthe work and learning environment. It is an advantage if applicants have leadership background in the education field, but we are also open to other leadership experience from public administration.

You are committed to strengthening Sami identity and belonging among students and believe thatSami language and culture are crucial to uphold and develop Sami identity and community as stipulated in the Sami Act.

As a rector, you have the overall responsibility for the school functioning well as an organization. Your ability to strengthen and lead the professional community with this dual objective, where you build trust through clear and warm communication, good involvement, and ability to prevent and handle disagreements in a respectful manner, to develop the organizational culture so that all employees can and will help and support each other in the work, is decisive.

Your ability to collaborate with other colleagues, schools, school owners, and other external actors is also decisive to create a school that contributes to learning, mastery, and well-being. You have a conscious and clear relationship to your leadership role and your leadership. The school has undergone an reorganization and now needs a leader who is clear, takes initiative, and is involving and democratic.

Job Responsibilities

• You are the school's top leader with result, personnel, OHS, and financial responsibility
• You operate and develop the school in accordance with the community mission, including the school owner's and board's goals and vision
• You ensure a good work environment and inclusive learning environment characterized by safety, predictability, and good cooperation through involvement and participation of the employees and students
• You ensure a good organizational culture in line with the school's value basis
• You lead the school's strategy, project, and development work
• You facilitate cross-disciplinary cooperation, both internally and externally

Qualifications

You are a person who can show good results as a leader and have:

• relevant higher education
• experience as a personnel leader
• advantage with experience from basic education, preferably from upper secondary education, but not an absolute requirement
• knowledge of the public sector, laws, and agreements
• good system and financial understanding
• good digital competence
• good oral and written presentation skills in Sami and Norwegian
• good knowledge of Sami community relations, as well as laws, conventions, and rights that specifically apply to Sami affairs, both national and international

Personal Traits

You are a clear, inclusive, and unifying leader who builds safety through a positive student view, your personnel management, and professional guidance. You have good relationship skills and the ability to create trust and commitment. Internally and externally, you can create a good working climate. You are innovative, take on new knowledge in a quick and effective way, have courage and the will to drive development work, and ensure the implementation of the school's community mission and vision by working strategically, target-oriented, and systematically.

For us, it is very important how you as a person fit the job. This will be especially emphasized in the overall assessment.

We Offer

• an engaged work environment with skilled colleagues
• opportunity to strengthen and develop Sami language and culture, both nationally and internationally • a challenging and interesting leadership position that provides opportunities for personal and professional development
• cross-disciplinary collaboration for experience and competence sharing with Sami Upper Secondary School in Karasjok and other schools
• contact with learning institutions in the indigenous network WINHEC
• good loan and pension arrangements in the State Pension Fund

Salary and Working Conditions

The workplace is Kautokeino. The position is paid according to agreement and under the state agreement. The position is placed in the state salary regulation in position code 0953 Rector, salary range from kr 1,050,000 to kr 1,160,000. From the salary, 2% is deducted for the State Pension Fund.

Kautokeino municipality is part of the working means scheme for North Troms and Finnmark. This entails tax advantages, cf. Finnmark Deduction – Tax Authority. In addition, those who live and work in Finnmark and North Troms will have their student loans forgiven according to the current rules from the Loan Agency. Kautokeino has free kindergarten and SFO.

We believe that inclusion and diversity are a strength. We therefore want employees with different ages, functional abilities, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or ethnic background, and different life experiences and perspectives to contribute to even better problem-solving. We therefore encourage all who are qualified according to the requirements of the position to apply to us. We adapt the workplace if you need it.

Employment is in accordance with current laws, regulations, and agreements. The position has a six-month probationary period.

Contact our recruitment advisors Gro Møllerstad, tel. 915 59752 or Sean Kennair, tel. 940 65 911. Board Chair Guri Adelsten Iversen, tel. 913 45 259, can also be contacted.

Application deadline: 17.03.2026

Sami Upper Secondary School and Reindeer Herding School in Kautokeino/Guovdageaidnu

Sami Upper Secondary School and Reindeer Herding School provides educational offerings in and in Sami for students in upper secondary education, emphasizing the Sami in all subjects. The offer is open to students from all over the country and the school has a host family system for out-of-town students. The education follows the Knowledge Promotion Act – Sami.

The school's leadership was reorganized in the school year 2024-2025. The school now has a leadership group of four, with the rector having three inspectors together with them. The inspectors lead their respective areas and are also personnel and financial responsible.

The school aims to provide students with a qualitatively good education with an emphasis on Sami language, culture, and community life.The school has national lines in reindeer husbandry and the Sami handicraft tradition duodji.The school also offers education on programs for study specialization, sports line (e-sports and broad sports), construction and engineering technology, technology and industrial trades, and restaurant and food service.The school also offers distance learning in Northern Sami to students who do not receive language education in their home municipality.

In addition, the school organizes courses for young people and adults based on the needs in the local business community and society.

The Sami Upper Secondary Schools, Karasjok and Kautokeino

The Sami Upper Secondary Schools, Karasjok and Kautokeino are central Sami institutions for further education consisting of Sami Upper Secondary School and Reindeer Herding School in Kautokeino/Guovdageaidnu and Sami Upper Secondary School in Karasjok/Kárášjohka. The schools are state-owned and have a joint board, but have independent administration and leadership at each school. The school has 93 students this school year, 34 distance learning students, and 56 employees, of which 37 are teaching staff and 19 are administrative and commercial positions.

The Ministry of Education and Research has delegated the task as directorate and school owner to the Directorate for Education and Training, which has delegated most of the school owner tasks to a board considered as the business's leadership and the link between the Directorate for Education and Training and the daily leadership at the school as the rectors carry out. It is the board that employs the rector.