Climate Adaptation Officer for Odsherred Municipality

Climate adaptation and coastal protection officer for Odsherred Municipality

Do you want to help set the direction for Odsherred Municipality's long-term climate adaptation strategy? And create the solutions that protect the municipality's residents and businesses in a changing climate? Then you now have the opportunity for an exciting and versatile job in the Rivers and Coast team in Odsherred Municipality.

You, together with your colleague, will play a key role in translating political interest and citizens' need for security into concrete strategies and projects – from coastal protection to climate adaptation throughout the municipality. You will see development opportunities, create overview in complex processes, and manage to bring citizens, stakeholders and colleagues together around common solutions that prepare the municipality for a changed climate.

Your tasks

The work varies between office and field work and you will both work with externally financed development projects as well as concrete construction projects and authorities work. Inspections and field work often take place together with citizens and landowners, where you communicate your technical expertise and issues in an easily understandable way.

Hereafter your tasks will include, among others

• Development of a long-term strategic climate adaptation plan for the entire municipality in collaboration with the team
• Project management of an EU-funded development project, where nature-based solutions are developed and tested
• Communication efforts that prepare citizens and businesses to navigate a changed climate
• Identify new areas of intervention for climate adaptation, including external funding opportunities
• Case handling of larger and smaller projects under the Coastal Protection Act

We imagine that you

Are an engaged, structured and trust-building colleague with relevant professional background, e.g., geographer, biologist, hydrogeologist, engineer or similar. Furthermore, it is an advantage if you

• have experience with project management and thrive on guiding complex processes from start to finish
• have knowledge of the Coastal Protection Act and preferably experience with municipal authority handling within coastal and climate adaptation or waterways
• know the value of relationship work and are good at communicating professionally and in a welcoming manner
• have understanding of working in a politically led organization
• have a driver's license for a passenger car

We offer

A 3-year project position with the possibility of extension and good development opportunities both personally and professionally.

You will be one of 5 employees in the Rivers and Coast team, which is part of the Department of Nature & Environment. The department consists of 29 dedicated colleagues who work with wastewater, agriculture, nature, climate, groundwater and the environment. Here you will encounter a work culture where there is room to think new and different, and where good collegiality appears in professional sparring as well as good laughter and sociable company.

The position is full-time with salary and terms of employment in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. We expect employment from 1 January 2027.

A little more about us

In the Center for Business, Technology and Environment we are around 75 employees, where our primary tasks are within authority and operation.

Your work address will be Nyvej 22, 4573 Højby at Odsherred Municipality’s Town Hall. From the capital area you can get here by train or car, where you drive with the sun behind you and against the traffic. We are closer than many think, as it only takes 40 minutes to drive from Roskilde.

You will have engaged colleagues across the town hall, canteen, staff and art association, holiday fund with summer houses for rent, etc.

Odsherred Municipality offers flexible working hours, where you can choose to schedule your hours so you can take Fridays off. In addition, there are good possibilities to work from home a couple of days a week.

You can read more about Odsherred Municipality at www.odsherred.dk .

If you have questions about the job, you are welcome to contact the Head of Department for Nature & Environment, Else Andersen: [email protected] / 59 66 60 48.

Procedure

Submit your application and CV electronically via the municipality's website, so we have it no later than 20 November 2026 at 08:00 and write "Climate adaptation officer" when you send your application. Other documents, such as diplomas and similar, you only need to bring to a possible employment interview. We expect to hold interviews on 25 November 2026.

Application deadline

20.11.2026 at 08:00.

About Odsherred

Odsherred is a good place to live, work and visit. We have a natural community with room for diversity, exciting jobs, new opportunities, enthusiasm, curiosity and courage. We are proud of our nature, which moves thoughts and inspires those who want to develop the way we live, experience, work and run businesses.

We have both single-family houses at reasonable prices, country estates with space for hobby farming and ample opportunity to live in a community with others.

Odsherred Municipality has a smoke-free working time as of January 1, 2021