Consultant with experience in the social field sought for the Office for Crime Prevention in Denmark's Prisons, Prison Sector East

The Danish Prison Service is in the midst of implementing a comprehensive criminal reform with a significant strengthening of the crime prevention area. The reform places high demands on quality, consistency and effect in the efforts that are to create lasting and positive changes among inmates.

The Office for Crime Prevention is seeking a consultant with solid social work insight, strategic understanding, and the ability to navigate safely within a political organization. You are motivated to translate political decisions into concrete practice and to create measurable results in close collaboration with prisons and detention centers in the Prison Circle East.

The main task of the Office for Crime Prevention is to contribute to our success in translating strategic and professional goals by assisting with development, support, coordination and follow-up on the crime-prevention initiatives carried out in the institutions in the Prison Circle East. Furthermore, the office is tasked with supporting the central level as relevant.

The Office for Crime Prevention deals with a wide range of tasks including social work interventions, psychosocial interventions, drug treatment, health (somatic and psychiatric), suicide prevention, sexual offenders, education and employment, cognitive skills training, youth issues, a close and broad cross-sector collaboration, cooperation with civil society, family and other stakeholders, and much more.

The office consists of five teams, four deputy heads and a head of office, who emphasize close multidisciplinary collaboration.

About the position and tasks

You will join the Team for Authority Cooperation and Client Pathways. As a consultant, your main task is to translate the strategic and professional goals within your areas of expertise in close interaction with prisons and detention centers, partners and the Agency for Denmark’s Prisons. You will regularly participate in cross-disciplinary working groups across The Danish Prison Service and will therefore have a sense of community and collaboration with your colleagues in the Office for Crime Prevention, the institutions, the Prison Circle West and the Agency for The Danish Prisons.

Your primary tasks will include

• Assist with development, support, coordination and follow-up.
• Ensure high professional quality in task execution, including case processing and action plan work at the on-site facilities, through inclusive and developmental workflows.
• Prepare professional standards, guidelines, templates etc.
• Follow up on progress and results
• Prepare notes, consultation responses, project descriptions etc.
• Contribute to a good working environment with well-being and strong cross-disciplinary collaboration with sparring and feedback both internally and externally.

About you

You must be professionally strong within the field, just as you must master the cross-field between practice and the civil service role. You are used to acting at multiple levels and are expected to have the personal and professional abilities to implement and follow up on messages from political and administrative hands.

You must also be able to handle a variety of tasks within planning, development, follow-up and communication, just as facilitating change processes and professional development programs for groups is an important competence. To succeed in the task, you must also be able to build trustful relationships across disciplines with your many partners, including prison leadership and staff as well as the central level.

We would like you to have professionally

• Social work background such as a social worker or a master's degree in social sciences
• Knowledge from and practical experience with The Danish Prison Service, similar Agencies, the municipal sector or similar
• Experience working in a politically governed organization
• Good analytical abilities
• Strong skills in communication and dissemination – both oral and written.

We would like you to be as a person

• Proactive with an eye for development opportunities
• Have good collaboration skills, but also be able to work independently
• Able to think across the organization
• Capable of working with many different professional groups
• Structured with a good overview of your tasks.

We offer

You will become part of a cross-disciplinary strong environment in the circle office. Your colleagues are dedicated employees with high professional competence in all prison-related areas, and there is an open and humorous work environment. We emphasize that our busy days are accompanied by a good tone of voice and helpfulness toward each other, and a focus on a good balance between work and family life for the individual employee.

Salary and employment terms

The position is a permanent full-time role with an average weekly working time of 37 hours.

The position is intended to be filled by 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Appointment and remuneration will be set in accordance with the relevant applicable collective agreement depending on your educational background in combination with the role description.

If you are already employed as a civil servant in the state, there will be an opportunity to retain your civil service status.

Employment area is The Danish Prison Service.

Workplace is the Circle Office in Prison Circle East, Kirstineberg 4, 2100 Copenhagen Ø.

As the Office for Crime Prevention serves all the circle's institutions, you should expect to participate in meetings across the circle’s institutions. A service car is provided. A driving license is required.

It is a condition of employment that in connection with a potential interview you consent to The Danish Prison Service obtaining and evaluating information about you from the Central Criminal Register.

Apply for the position

Applications, CV and documentation of education as well as other relevant material must be received in the recruitment system no later than Sunday, 18 October 2026.

We expect to hold first and second interviews in weeks 43 and 44.

If you are called for an interview, you must bring identification, e.g. passport or driving license.

The Danish Prison Service sees diversity as a strength and encourages all interested candidates regardless of personal background to apply.

Further information

If you have questions, you are welcome to contact the Head of Office for Crime Prevention, Julie Bergholt Andersson, at 7255 4347 or Deputy Head Louise Schou Hunderup at 72 55 75 40.

About The Danish Prison Service, Prison Circle East

Prison Circle East consists of a circle office, open and closed prisons, detention houses and supervision, as well as ankle-monitoring units, transport and escort, a departure center and an alien center distributed across Zealand, Bornholm and the Faroe Islands.

In total approx. 2300 employees.

For further information about The Danish Prison Service please refer to the website www.danmarksfængsler.dk