Church staff member responsible for education and diaconal work

A newly created position as a church employee at 25 hours at Ansgars Church, Aalborg, is available as of January 1, 2026. The position is initially a 2-year project post.

Ansgars Church is located between the Aalborg Congress and Culture Center and the Aalborg Tower. As a local parish church, we will be an open church for all, where people are. We want to reach out to our time and culture, so we in word and deed follow Jesus' command: “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them.” (from the church's value base www.ansgarskirken.dk)

Ansgars Church today has many communities for children, youth, adults and the elderly, both on weekdays and at weekends. The church space is bright and open and provides a fine setting for the parish's services, weddings, funerals and concerts. The newly built parish house and the rooms in the church's basement accommodate the diverse parish life during the week. Ansgars Church also has a tradition of an active and stylistically diverse music life.

We are seeking a church employee who knows themselves and knows God. We seek an independent employee who is good at forming relationships with everyone from teenagers to seniors, and who can coordinate and lead volunteers. An employee who can teach the Bible and can maintain an overview from idea to execution on, among other things, diaconal initiatives, parish evenings and various teaching evenings. An employee who can continue existing communities, but who can also rethink and pursue new paths.

In addition, we place high value on the ability to work independently and at the same time participate in a team with the church's other staff, so that the different resources are used as effectively as possible.

Your profile

We expect from the right candidate

• Education relevant to the work (e.g., 3-K education, diaconal education, teacher, theologian, pedagogue)
• Willingness to undertake the compulsory basic training for Church and Culture workers if the competence requirement is not already met
• Experience from church educational work – paid or volunteer
• A clear stance on Christianity and working with proclamation, prayer and teaching, baptism and catechesis.
• A passion for, in collaboration with the responsible pastor, designing and delivering the church's confirmation instruction.
• Ability and willingness to continuously, with sparring from the church's three pastors, take responsibility for planning and delivering parish evenings, Ansgars Bible School and the Alpha course.
• Ability and competence to work with coordination, leadership and encouragement of volunteers
• Ability and creativity to develop the church's diaconal work - visiting service, possibly a new community for the lonely, engagement in Ansgars Church's food bank and cooperation around the international work in the church.
• A wish to be a natural part of the church's parish life and other communities in the church.
• Can identify with the church's profile and value base – see more at www.ansgarskirken.dk

We offer

• A well-functioning workplace with a focus on collaboration, sparring and both personal and spiritual community.
• A position with great freedom to plan work and working hours. However, varying working hours should be expected, with evening and weekend work occurring.
• A position with good opportunities to rethink and put one's own mark on tasks, etc.
• An engaged colleague group characterized by a humorous tone and a relaxed manner.
• Volunteers and staff who, with different competencies, work together to realize a common goal
• An engaged and supportive Parish Council that is an active part of the liturgical and parish community
• Office space in our beautiful new parish house.

Description of Ansgars Church

Ansgars Parish has a little more than 8,300 inhabitants, of whom a little over 6,000 are members of the National Church. The parish has grown by about 600 inhabitants in recent years, and more than 36,000 visitors come to the church each year. The parish council totals 11 members.

Ansgars Church dates from 1929 and we look forward to a forthcoming 100-year anniversary. There is seating for about 450 people in the church. In the parish house and the rooms under the church, there are offices for the staff as well as parish and confirmation rooms.

The life of the church is characterized by a large and engaged congregation, including many young people and families with children, and there is a very good and stable church attendance on Sundays with an average of over 200 per service in 2026.

In the main service, many of the church's volunteers are involved in various tasks: mini-, children's and junior church during the sermon, liturgical helpers, technicians, praise groups, translation into English, church host, etc. In addition to the main services, there are short morning services, Evening Mass, AMOK services and AWAKE services. Furthermore, there are services at the parish care homes in the parish, as well as services for kindergartens, schools, etc. in connection with Christmas and Easter.

Parish life at Ansgars Church also consists of many other communities and activities: Baby Lullaby, Playgroup, Children's Club, Mini-confirmations, Ansgars evenings with cultural lectures, Concerts, Bible school evenings and theme days, morning songs, women's community, Friday family community, small groups, knitting club/baptism cloths, Christian courses, Danish language courses/community for new Danes (Love Aalborg International), music groups, parish camp, parish trip, Bible study groups, etc.

Kirken Korshærs skurby og herberg is located in the parish, and in cooperation with other congregations in Aalborg, Ansgars Church participates in food distribution in the form of the “Foodbank”. In addition there is cooperation with FDF in the parish and the youth communities IMU and KFS.

The church staff consists on a daily basis of two sextons, one of whom also serves as daily leader, four church attendants, three priests, three organists/church musicians, a church singer, choral singers, a church and family worker, and one international worker.

Employment terms and salary conditions

Employment is through Ansgars Parish Council, located at Vesterbro 1A, 9000 Aalborg.

The appointment will be covered by the Framework Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and CO10 – Central Organization of 2010 and the Organizational Agreement between the Ministry of Church Affairs and CO10 – Central Organization of 2010 for church functionaries with core tasks such as sexton, church and culture employee or church musician and the accompanying protocol for church and culture employees.

The agreements can be viewed on Folkekirken’s Intranet

There are educational requirements for the position. See §§ 14 and 15 in Circular No. 10001 of 12/11 2019.

It is a condition that the compulsory basic education for church and culture workers be completed within 2 years of the start of employment, unless you meet the educational requirement by virtue of your previous education.

Employees who do not meet the educational requirements and have not completed the compulsory basic education will be paid in salary grade 1. The annual salary is agreed within the range of DKK 350,435 – 442,216 (current kroner).

Employees who meet the educational requirements or have completed the compulsory basic education are paid in salary grade 2. The annual salary is agreed within the range of DKK 367,122 – 500,621 (current kroner).

There is a duty of availability to the position. The availability allowance is DKK 36,668 (current kroner).

OK allowance of DKK 3,654 (current kroner) per year.

The above salary rates, OK allowance and availability allowance are quota-based in accordance with the position's appointment fraction 25/37. Thus, this 25-hour position will be paid 67.6% of the amounts mentioned above.

An agreement on placement within the salary range will be made between the parish council and Kirkekultur.nu.

Contact details and application

Further information from

Daily manager Charlotte Buus Pedersen: 29 81 18 01 / 98 12 32 66.

The Parish Council's personnel responsible Erik Dencker Andersen: 25 33 98 66

It is also possible to contact the parish priests

Anders Jensen: 29 33 06 86. Uffe Kronborg: 50 40 54 08. Andreas Bøge: 21 60 40 52

Applications with relevant attachments should be addressed to Ansgars Parish Council and sent by e-mail to [email protected]

The application must reach the parish council no later than 01-11-2026.

Employment interviews are expected to be held on 09/10-11-2026.

The parish council can state that references will be obtained in connection with the appointment, and that there will be a probationary period of 3 months.