Advisor sought for strengthened educational guidance for Copenhagen's prisons

Do you want to help build trust and security in Copenhagen's prisons

The Danish Prisons carry out the sentences that the courts impose. We do this on behalf of society, and we are the only ones who can solve this task. Therefore, the Danish Prisons never sleep. Every day, every evening and every night we go to work in the Danish Prisons. We do this to create a society with less crime and fewer victims.

The Danish Prisons are facing the implementation of a comprehensive sentencing reform, where crime prevention, including strengthened opportunities for education and employment, must play a central role in reducing recidivism. This should among other things be achieved through better and earlier guidance for detainees.

We are therefore seeking an education adviser who can contribute to a more systematic, coherent and motivating guidance effort for the inmates.

If you have experience with guidance and want to work with this meaningful task in a complex field, you may be our new education adviser in Copenhagen prisons.

About you

• You have completed a diploma program in education, vocational and career guidance (DUEK) or another relevant qualification within guidance, teaching or similar
• Other relevant education within guidance, teaching or similar must be documented by a real competence assessment, which can be carried out by the educational institutions that offer the diploma in education-, vocational- and career guidance
• You have an in-depth knowledge of the Danish adult education system and a good knowledge of the labour market
• You also have experience with education-, vocational- or career guidance - preferably for adults with different backgrounds. You are able to motivate and support inmates to start education and maintain work
• You naturally collaborate with colleagues across disciplines based on common goals and actively contribute to a constructive interdisciplinary work environment
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills
• You have experience in planning, conducting and leading group guidance

Experience from the Danish Prisons or experience with vulnerable target groups is an advantage, but not a prerequisite.

Who are we

We have several addresses around the city where we conduct individual guidance conversations, guidance in groups and group programs. Most working days will take place at Vestebr prison, a busy house with about 600 detainees.

You will be part of a guidance team with three experienced advisers, each with different guidance tasks. The tasks range from individual guidance conversations to longer group guidance programs. We guide inmates with different backgrounds, experiences and needs. This means you meet people who are at different stages in life, and the guidance must be adapted to the individual.

The work is largely independent, and you will be responsible for your own guidance processes and tasks. At the same time you will have the opportunity to influence both the content of your tasks and the methods you use in your work. You are expected to take initiative, make professional decisions and plan your own workday within the given framework.

Although the work is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and influence, you are not alone with the tasks. You will become part of a professional community with close collaboration, sparring and coordination with your colleagues on the tasks and the individual guidance programs.

The daily life is varied, and you must thrive with both the planned guidance conversations and the situations that arise during a busy day in a prison. You will thus have a job with both responsibility, professional freedom and the opportunity to apply your competencies – while having colleagues close by for sparring and collaboration.

About the job

Your primary tasks will be to

• Conduct individual guidance conversations with inmates and clarify the inmates' educational needs, competencies and motivation
• Conduct individual guidance conversations about personal and social prerequisites
• Provide general guidance on educational opportunities, including AVU, FVU, HF, vocational education, etc., and inform about education, teaching and employment offerings in the Danish Prisons
• Collaborate with teachers, social workers, supervisors, guards and other staff based on a common plan for the inmate
• Cooperate with external actors where relevant
• Obtain educational documentation as part of competence clarification
• Document and follow up on the guidance effort in relevant IT systems
• Develop the guidance area in collaboration with colleagues and the Circuit Office in Prison Circuit East.

We offer

As an employee of the Danish Prisons you will become part of a diverse and varied workplace with employees who have different professional backgrounds and competencies. Upon employment we can offer you:

• A meaningful and socially important job where you can make a concrete difference
• Opportunity to help develop and qualify the guidance effort in the Danish Prisons
• An interdisciplinary work environment with engaged colleagues, with a focus on high professionalism, collaboration and social responsibility
• Exciting tasks
• Introduction and training within the Copenhagen prisons’ framework.

Salary and employment conditions

The position is a permanent role with an average weekly working time of 37 hours. The position is to be filled on January 1, 2027 or as soon as possible.

Employment and salary are in accordance with the applicable Joint Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Teachers' Union and CO10 - Central Organisation of 2010, as well as the Architect's Agreement for guidance counselors at Studievalg Denmark and the Prison Service institutions. Link to the organizational agreement.

Area of employment

is the Danish Prisons.

Workplace

is Copenhagen prisons, Vestebr Prison, Vigerslev Allé 1, 2450 Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen prisons consist of Vestebr Prison, the Blegdamsvej Arrest, the Police Square Arrest and Nytorv Prison. Most days the guidance work will take place in Vestebr Prison.

Application

Your application, CV, documentation of education and other relevant material must be received in the recruitment system

by Thursday 12 November 2026 at the latest.

We will invite to interviews on an ongoing basis and expect to conduct interviews in week 46 and week 47.

If you are invited to an interview, you must bring photo identification, e.g. a passport or driver's license.

It is a condition of employment that you, in connection with the interview, consent to Danish Prisons obtaining and assessing information about you in the Central Criminal Register.

The Danish Prisons see diversity as a strength and encourage all interested candidates regardless of personal background to apply.

If you have questions about the position

, you are welcome to contact Unit Manager Mette Krog at tel. 7255 5237.

About the Danish Prisons, Prison Circuit East

The Prison Circuit East consists of a circuit office, open and closed prisons, detention houses and supervision, as well as ankle bracelet departments, transport and guarding, a deportation center and an immigrant center distributed across the entire Zealand, Bornholm and the Faroe Islands.

Approximately 2,300 employees in total.

For further information about the Danish Prisons, please refer to the website www.danmarksfængsler.dk

Application deadline: 12 November 2026

Department: Kristineberg 4 2100 Copenhagen Ø

Location: Region Capital