Occupational Health and Safety Consultant for Children and Young People, Aarhus Municipality

Occupational health and safety consultant for Children and Young People, Aarhus Municipality

Would you like to help create a healthy and safe working environment for staff at our schools, day care centers, clubs, and professional offices within Children and Young People? Do you have experience with occupational health and safety, and do you thrive in an advisory role where you both support, guide and challenge? Then it might be you we are looking for.

As an occupational health and safety consultant you will be an important player in the work to develop and ensure a good working environment in Children and Young People. We see a good working environment as a prerequisite for fulfilling the vision of Children and Young People that all children and young people learn, thrive and develop.

About the job

You will become part of the Occupational Health and Safety Team, which supports managers and occupational health and safety groups in their systematic occupational health and safety work.

In the position you will work broadly with the occupational health and safety area. You will also be part of a professionally strong team where we solve tasks across and bring different competencies into play.

The day-to-day includes many different types of tasks. For example, follow-up on responses from the Danish Working Environment Authority, APV (workplace assessment), indoor climate, violence and threats, use of digital occupational health and safety systems, or development of materials and training for the occupational health and safety groups.

You will work in a large and complex organization, where occupational health and safety issues often require cross-disciplinary solutions across professions, offices and departments. Therefore it is important that you can see the concrete problem and at the same time understand the organizational context it is part of.

You often solve tasks together with a colleague, a manager or a local occupational health and safety group, but you must also be able to drive your own tasks from idea to solution.

Your tasks include among others

• support managers and occupational health and safety groups in their systematic occupational health and safety work
• help the occupational health and safety groups with the IT systems that Children and Young People provides for occupational health and safety work, e.g. SafetyNet and Danish Chemical Database
• develop and deliver courses for the occupational health and safety groups
• develop materials, tools and other solutions that make occupational health and safety work easier in practice
• communicate occupational health and safety knowledge, guidance and legislation on our occupational health portal “AMBU-online”

To succeed in the role you must have flair for IT and a user perspective when new IT systems and digital solutions are introduced. You do not need to know all systems in advance – the most important is that you want to learn new things and guide managers and occupational health and safety representatives in navigating the systems in a user-friendly way.

We imagine that you

• have solid experience with the occupational health and safety area, e.g. as an occupational health and safety consultant, as an occupational health representative or a manager from a public organization
• have an academic or professional background, preferably within the children and youth area
• have experience with and can operate confidently in the consultant role and know when the task calls for you to support, guide, challenge or quality assure
• are a strong communicator who can make complex knowledge understandable – both in teaching and in dialogue with your collaborators
• have a desire to delve into new knowledge, legislation and IT systems
• have experience from a politically governed organization – an advantage, but not a requirement.

As a person you are

• trustworthy and good at building relationships with different people and professional groups
• structured and good at prioritizing when several tasks and considerations must align
• independent and self-starting, while naturally seeking collaboration with your colleagues
• a team player who actively contributes to a good professional and social community
• good at reading a situation and showing professional judgment – even when the issues are complex

About us

The Occupational Health and Safety Team is part of HR and Organization, which consists of 24 employees distributed over five teams with the following areas of work:

• Leadership recruitment
• Organizational and leadership development
• Occupational health and safety
• Analysis - Quantitative and qualitative data and analyses
• Learning partners to support local practice development

We work closely across the five teams. Learning and knowledge sharing are important parts of our everyday life, because we see strong learning communities as a prerequisite for competent task performance and good support of the leaders in Children and Young People.

In the Occupational Health and Safety Team we emphasize high professionalism, curiosity and an informal tone. We help each other, share knowledge and use each other’s different perspectives when tasks require it.

Why choose us

With us you get a position with great variation, professional responsibility and the opportunity to make a tangible difference for the occupational health and safety in practice.

You get a great deal of flexibility in planning your work and the opportunity to be part of many different collaborative relationships across the organization. You will be part of a professionally strong team with a high degree of psychological safety, where there is room to be ambitious on the task’s behalf and to share a good laugh in everyday life.

There is a lot of freedom in the individual teams in planning and executing the tasks, and we trust that employees themselves can help find good solutions.

If you are motivated to make occupational health and safety knowledge practical, to build good relations and to find solutions across a complex organization, we would love to hear from you.

Salary and employment

We offer a full-time position. Salary and terms of employment will follow the applicable collective agreement.

Final salary setting will be after negotiation with the union representing the employees based on your qualifications.

Application

You should submit your application and attachments electronically no later than 25 October 2026. We will select and invite candidates for interviews on 28 October 2026. First interview will be held on 4 November 2026. There will be an assignment between the first and second interview. Second interview will be held on 10 November 2026.

Click on “Apply” below to fill out and send your application. Only after you have received a confirmation by email have we received your application.

• Application deadline: 25 October 2026
• First interview round: 4 November 2026
• Second interview round: 10 November 2026
• Expected start date: 1 January 2027

If you want to know more

… about daily life in the office, salary and employment conditions you are welcome to contact the HR and Organization Office Manager, Rasmus Rugaard, at phone 2135 3643.

If you want to know more about the team’s tasks, you are welcome to contact the occupational health and safety consultant, Emilie Hasager Bonde, at phone 2126 3110.

You can get an insight into who Children and Young People are at the following link: Children and Young People

Read about the occupational health and safety policy in Aarhus Municipality

Aarhus Municipality Occupational Health and Safety Policy: Occupational Health and Safety Policy

In Aarhus Municipality we put the children at the center

We want to give all children and young people the best conditions to learn, develop and thrive. It requires strong learning communities and cross-disciplinary collaboration among the adults around the child.

In Aarhus Municipality you will become part of a collaborative culture where data, knowledge and experience are used so that everyone has the opportunity to learn together with and from each other across professions, employees and management levels. We believe that children and young people do what they can. The children are not the problem, but they reveal the problem. In Aarhus Municipality the adults take responsibility for learning, development and well-being for all children and young people.

About Aarhus Municipality as an employer

Aarhus Municipality is among the largest employers in Jutland, where 28,000 professional and dedicated colleagues every day work to turn visions into reality and create value for citizens and the society around us. We are an employer that values professionalism and collaboration highly and we believe that our differences help make Aarhus a good city for everyone. Together we work for a sustainable and inclusive city where employees, citizens, businesses and nature can thrive and flourish. We have ambitions for the city – and for you. Come and join us!

As an employee of Aarhus Municipality you make visions a reality and create development, community and well-being. Here there is respect for professionalism, room for diversity and opportunity for growth.

Application deadline

25-10-2026

Start date

01-01-2027

Weekly working hours

37 hours per week

Job category

Administration and officeCommunication and HR

Workplace

Grøndalsvej 2, 8260 Viby J.

Contact

Rasmus Rugaard

Office Manager

21353643