Archivist for the National Archives - Documentation

Would you like to help support and develop one of Europe’s leading archives for digital societal documentation? Are you the detective type who is good at conducting challenging archival investigations and providing excellent customer service? Then you are the employee we are looking for.

About the Danish National Archives

With almost 1000 years of analog and digital societal documentation, the Danish National Archives are Denmark’s memory and knowledge centre for the development of Danish society. We collect, preserve and deliver original documents and data that support the needs of a knowledge- and law-based society and create new insights and understandings of our society. At the Danish National Archives you will become part of an ambitious and modern organization.

In close collaboration with our users, we continuously work to be an important player in the public digital infrastructure, so that our large amount of data creates the greatest possible value for citizens, researchers, businesses and public authorities.

The job

You will become part of the Danish National Archives’ Unit for Revenue-Generating Activities, where we solve paid tasks within the archival professional areas of documentation, registration and arrangement, archival investigations, digitization, and consultancy for public authorities and businesses. The position is linked to our business area “Documentation,” where we are a good and highly engaged team, and we look forward to involving you in our community around task solving.

Your main duties consist of complex archival investigations in the form of identifying information in the submitted analogue and digital material. It is expected that you can read handwriting back to at least the 18th century and preferably even older material. If you are invited to an interview, there will be a handwriting reading test.

There is also the opportunity to influence your task portfolio depending on your particular competencies; for example contributing to project management of larger tasks, preparing offers to users with very specific wishes regarding the use of the Danish National Archives’ collections, and much more – our varied tasks ensure that your skills can be utilised.

In your task solving we expect a high degree of orderliness and systematic approach as well as an understanding of the importance that your work is performed meticulously and efficiently. It is also of significant importance that you understand that we operate on commercial terms, and therefore productivity is weighed very highly, but never at the expense of quality.

About you

We do not place too much emphasis on the exact educational background you have, but rather on your professional qualifications. We expect, however, that you have an academic education at master’s level and that you have experience with larger and complicated archival investigations of material from the 16th to the 21st century.

We are looking for you who

• can read various older handwritten texts, at least from the 1700s

The Danish National Archives strive to achieve as broad a composition of staff as possible. Therefore we encourage all qualified applicants regardless of personal background to apply.

You can also read more about the Danish National Archives at www.rigsarkivet.dk.

If you would like to hear more about the job, you are welcome to contact archivist Birgitte Vestergaard Futtrup at tel. no. 41 71 73 96 or unit manager Jesper Steffensen at tel. no. 41 71 74 57.

The application deadline is Sunday, October 18, 2026 . We expect to hold interviews in week 44.

Your application

Submit a motivated application, CV and documentation of relevant education and experience via the Danish National Archives’ recruitment system. You will be guided through the recruitment process when you click ‘Apply for the position’ at the bottom of this page.

It is a condition of employment that you can obtain security clearance to the level “Confidential,” and you must be able to maintain the security clearance throughout your employment.

It is a requirement that you have a valid driving licence (category B).

The job is intended to start on 01.01.2027.

The position is located in the Danish National Archives’ unit for Revenue-Generating Activities and the workplace is in Viborg, Vennershåbsvej 1.

Salary and employment terms

You will be employed in accordance with the current agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC. The working week is on average 37 hours. We have flexible working hours and emphasize a good balance between work and private life.

It is important to us that you get a good start at the Danish National Archives. During the first weeks there is an orientation program, where you have ample opportunity to get to know your new colleagues and the organization as well as start your tasks.

With us, presence together with our colleagues means a lot, and we believe that collaboration and knowledge-sharing across the Danish National Archives are crucial for a good working environment. At the same time, we want to ensure flexibility for our employees, and remote work is arranged on an ongoing basis between the manager and the employee when it is compatible with task performance.

About us

You will become part of a unit with high professionalism, strong engagement and good humor. Our everyday life is characterized by a strong team spirit and the joy of solving problems together. We place emphasis on a high degree of professionalism, credibility and responsibility in the tasks we solve.

• is persistent and asks for help when a task is challenging
• can deliver good service and align expectations with customers
• has experience in serving customers via email and telephone
• can work independently and in teams
• understands the importance of correct documentation of events
• is capable of and wishes to work digitally
• can handle a working pace where there may be a lot of busy periods

~ Application deadline: Oct 18, 2026 Department: Kalvebod Brygge 34 1560 Copenhagen V

Location: Viborg