EDUCATOR / PEDAGOGICAL SPECIALIST

Work at the municipality

Wolfsburg is a dynamic, cosmopolitan and modern city - an attractive location for business, life and leisure. Around 3,000 employees of the city administration are involved in a variety of professions in order to be able to offer the more than 127,000 inhabitants comprehensive and service-oriented services. As an employer, the City of Wolfsburg offers its employees a job with a secure future and a secure location, and the opportunity to actively help shape the city through their talents and abilities.

We currently run nine daycare centers as well as two child and family centers and care for more than 1,000 children between the ages of 0 and 6 years with approximately 300 pedagogical specialists. The basis of our work is the Early Excellence concept, according to which all facilities are aligned. In addition, each facility has its own house focus, which provides impulses for the daily pedagogical work in the open concept. In accordance with our vision "Here I am a child, here I want to be", the individual development of each child is the focus of our actions. We support the children in shaping their own path.

YOUR ACTIVITIES

• You educate, care for and raise daycare and / or kindergarten children by following the pedagogical principles of the Early Excellence concept.
• You stimulate the children's learning and development processes in free play and in individual activities, recording the children's developmental progress using our specially developed documentation booklet "Growing and Maturing".
• You practice participation by actively involving the children in shaping the day-to-day life of the daycare center, offering families a variety of opportunities to participate, and bringing your own interests and skills into the work.
• You see parents as the first experts for their children and hold regular parent meetings at eye level.
• As an educator, you take over the guidance of professionals in training and support them in an advisory capacity.

YOU BRING

• Degree as a state-recognized educator, social worker, social pedagogue, curative education nurse, curative pedagogue, childhood pedagogue, elementary pedagogue or in the study program Education and Upbringing in Childhood (HAWK) or qualification to teach at elementary schools.
• Enthusiasm
• Identification with the Early Excellence concept
• Enjoyment of open work
• A natural and respectful approach to diversity
• Willingness and ability to work at least within our core hours (08:00-16:00)

Your advantages with us:

• Strength-oriented work in an appreciative team without differentiation between first, second and third employee
• Flexible working hours (19.5 to 39 hours/week) for an optimal balance between job, family and free time
• 30 days of vacation as well as 24.12. and 31.12. off duty
• 2-4 regeneration and conversion days per year, as well as salary supplements according to TVöD SuE
• A wide range of advanced and further training courses on the Early Excellence concept and other pedagogical topics
• 8 study days with extensive qualification offers as well as promotion and advancement programs within the organization
• Possibility of a further career as a specialist with corresponding classification in S8b TVöD
• Diverse company health management and company fitness with WELLPASS
• Special annual payment (currently 79% of average gross monthly salary), company pension plan and capital-forming benefits
• Subsidy for the Jobticket Germany

Equal opportunities, diversity and the compatibility of private life and work are components of the personnel policy practiced by our city administration.
Therefore, we welcome applications from all age groups, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, cultural and social origin, disability, religion and ideology. Severely disabled applicants and applicants with equal status will be given priority, provided they are otherwise equally qualified.

So, do you feel like helping to shape Wolfsburg?

Then please apply with your complete documents (cover letter, CV and qualification certificates as a summarized pdf file) by e-mail or by post.

Note:
In the case of a paper application, please send us copies only, as no documents will be returned. After completion of the selection process, all documents will be destroyed.

City of Wolfsburg
Human Resources Division
PO Box 10 09 44
38409 Wolfsburg
e-mail: kita-bewerbung@stadt.wolfsburg.de

WE LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING TO KNOW YOU!

Do you have any questions? Then feel free to contact us.