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 employees at our schools, day care centers, clubs and professional offices in Børn og Unge? Do you have experience with occupational safety and thrive in an advisory role where you both support, guide and challenge? Then perhaps you are the person we are looking for.

As an Occupational Safety Consultant you will be an important partner in the work to develop and secure a good working environment in Børn og Unge. We see a good working environment as a prerequisite for fulfilling Børn og Unge’s vision that all children and young people learn, thrive and develop.

About the job

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

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

The everyday life offers many different types of tasks. For example, follow‑ups on reactions from the Danish Working Environment Authority, APV (workplace assessment), indoor climate, violence and threats, the use of digital occupational safety systems or development of materials and training for the occupational safety groups.

You will work in a large and complex organization where occupational safety issues often require solutions across disciplines, offices and departments. Therefore it is important that you can see the concrete problem and at the same time understand the organizational context in which it sits.

You often solve tasks together with a colleague, a manager or a local occupational 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 safety groups in their systematic occupational safety work
• help the occupational safety groups with the IT systems that Børn og Unge provides for occupational safety work, e.g. SafetyNet and Dansk Kemidatabase
• develop and hold courses for the occupational safety groups
• develop materials, tools and other solutions that make occupational safety work easier in practice
• communicate occupational safety knowledge, guidance and legislation on our occupational safety portal “AMBU-online”

To succeed in the role, you should have an affinity for IT and a user‑perspective when new IT systems and digital solutions are introduced. You don’t need to know all the systems in advance – the most important thing is that you want to learn new things and guide managers and occupational safety representatives in navigating the systems in a user‑friendly way.

We imagine that you

• have solid experience with the occupational safety area, e.g. as an occupational safety consultant, as an occupational safety representative or a manager from a public organization
• have an academic or professional background, preferably within the children and youth sector
• have experience with and can conduct yourself securely in the consultant role and know when the task calls for that you 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
• are keen to learn 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 add up
• independent and proactive, while naturally seeking collaboration with your colleagues
• a team player who contributes actively to a good professional and social community
• good at reading a situation and displaying professional judgment – also when the issues are complex

About us

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

• Leadership recruitment
• Organizational and leadership development
• Occupational 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 an important part of our daily work, because we see strong communities of learning as a prerequisite for competent task solving and good support of the leaders in Børn og Unge.

In the Occupational Safety Team we place emphasis on high professional standards, curiosity and an informal tone. We help each other, share knowledge and use each other’s different perspectives when tasks require it.

Why you should join us

With us you get a position with a lot of variation, professional responsibility and the opportunity to make a concrete difference for occupational safety.

You will have great flexibility in organizing your work and the possibility to engage in many different collaboration relationships across the organization. You will become 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.

In the individual teams there is a large degree of freedom in planning and carrying out the tasks, and we trust that the employees themselves can help find good solutions.

If you are motivated by making occupational safety knowledge applicable in practice, building good relationships and finding 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 be in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. Final salary determination is made after negotiation with the bargaining representative professional organization based on your qualifications.

Application

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

Click on “Ansøg” below to fill out and send your application. Only when you have received an acknowledgment by e‑mail 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 the daily life in the office, salary and terms of employment you are welcome to contact the head of office in HR and Organization, Rasmus Rugaard, at phone 2135 3643.

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

You can get a glimpse of who Børn og Unge is at the following link: Børn og Unge

Read about the occupational safety policy in Aarhus Municipality

Occupational safety policy in Aarhus Municipality: Occupational Safety Policy

In Aarhus Municipality we put children at the center

We want to give all children and young people the best conditions to learn, develop and thrive. This requires strong learning communities and cross‑professional collaboration between the adults around the child.

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