Contract Coordinator with a Legal Flair for the Electrification Program

Be part of ensuring progress in one of Denmark's major infrastructure programs.

Do you have experience with or an interest in legal and contractual matters, and are you motivated by creating an overview and ensuring that agreements, rights and obligations are handled and followed up?

In this position you will have the opportunity to put your legal understanding into practice. You will work with supporting the projects through structured follow-up on contracts and agreements, and ensuring progress in tasks where legal, commercial and project-related considerations must come together in a higher unity.

At the same time you will be part of an important societal task: the development and transformation of the Danish railway network so more trains can run on electricity.

If you thrive with responsibility, coordination and follow-up and at the same time want to apply your legal understanding in a concrete project reality, this could be you we are looking for.

In Banedanmark's Electrification Program we are working to electrify and expand the Danish railway network. We are seeking a contract coordinator who can create an overview, ensure follow-up and coordinate processes across the organization.

You will take a central role in the work with contract follow-up and coordination of ongoing cases, where you among other things shall support follow-up of the parties' contractual rights and obligations and ensure that relevant matters are documented. At the same time you will support the work with defects and deficiencies as well as follow-up on relevant agreement, warranty, and contractual matters. You will thus be part of the work to translate the contract basis into concrete follow-up in the project.

The position is therefore ideal for you who thrive on getting many different disciplines to work together and ensure that agreements, tasks and cases are followed through to the end.

Contract follow-up and progress across disciplines

Your primary task will be to create structure and progress in the work with contractual matters and ongoing cases. You will among other things support ongoing follow-up on the contract basis, ensure that relevant matters are documented, and coordinate the necessary legal and technical clarifications.

You will have a daily life where you work both independently and have close contact with the technical and legal team, where you will be the link between the legal assessments and everyday life out on the railway. You will also be the link to Technical and Execution and will also have contact with colleagues among, for example, design, project management, management support and maintenance.

Your main tasks will be to

• coordinate and follow up on ongoing contractual cases
• ensure progress and follow-up across across disciplines
• create an overview of status, activities and next steps
• coordinate between the technical team and the legal team
• support systematic follow-up of faults and deficiencies
• ensure that relevant warranty matters are followed up
• support legal communication across the organization
• create structure and overview in cases with many involved parties

The position is primarily characterized by administrative legal tasks and progress tasks, but you will also have the opportunity to work project-oriented and independently with your areas of responsibility. Your most important task will be to create progress, coordinate the relevant parties, and ensure that the cases are followed through to the end.

The position is therefore primarily characterized by coordination and administrative case management, but you will also have the opportunity to work independently with legal and contractual issues within your area of competence.

Legal understanding and sense of structure

We are looking for you who have an education with legal elements or relevant legal courses and/or already have experience with legal work or technical project management. We imagine that you have a relevant education with an interest in contracts or law.

You may be a recent graduate, but it is an advantage if you have some professional experience from an organization where coordination, project management, contracts or legal case handling are involved.

It is not important that you know everything from day one, but that you have an understanding of law and can apply your legal knowledge in a practical everyday life. It is desirable if you have knowledge of contract law, construction law or contract management. Technical understanding and financial understanding will also be an advantage.

You will take on a role where you come close to both the legal and technical issues in a large infrastructure project. This means that you will not only sit with documents and emails. You must also understand what happens in the project, which issues need follow-up, and who needs to be involved to move a case forward.

We are looking for you who

• work in a structured way
• can create an overview of many different cases
• take responsibility for follow-up and progress
• can communicate contractual issues clearly and understandably
• are interested in the connection between contract, technology and execution

You must also be comfortable working with colleagues with different professional backgrounds.

In addition, your CV should include

• a education with legal elements or relevant legal courses
• 1-2 years of experience with legal work or technical project management
• experience with project management, coordination, progress or organization
• good Danish and English skills

Your new team

You will become part of the Electrification Program, where the core team consists of about 20 employees with different professional backgrounds.

We have an informal and open culture, where there is room for both professionalism, humor and good relationships. We have a high degree of flexibility, rely on trust and work with a flat hierarchy and a focus on psychological safety.

Your immediate manager is open and straightforward and places great emphasis on trust and on everyone contributing their opinions, so we have a broad basis before decisions are made.

There is the possibility of a home office, and we work with a 37-hour work week, where lunch is included. The position involves minimal travel activity, and is based at our headquarters in Copenhagen on Carsten Niebuhrs Gade.

Opportunities for development

The position gives you the opportunity to develop both within contract follow-up, coordination and project work, and within the legal area.

Once you have created progress and closed the existing points, there will be opportunities to take on other tasks. Over time, the role can change in the direction of your experiences and the program's requirements, including the possibility of greater responsibility for contracts or legal work.

Salary and employment terms

If you are an academic, you are employed under the applicable collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a number of academic organizations for academics in the state.

You are placed on the basis of academic seniority and experience as a legal adviser at the baseline level in accordance with the applicable collective agreement, which you can find here and the Employee and Competence Agency's salary overview, which you can find here .

Depending on your qualifications and competencies there is the possibility of negotiating a supplement. There will be an employer-funded pension scheme of 18.07%.

Otherwise you are employed under the applicable Central Collective Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and Public Employees Organizations – The Public Sector Area (OAO-S central agreement) and the organizational agreement for office clerks, laboratory technicians and IT staff.

The position is in principle placed in salary grade 3, step 2 to 3 in the capital area according to the applicable collective agreement, which you can find here and the Employee and Competence Agency's salary overview, which you can find here .

Depending on your qualifications and competencies there is the possibility of negotiating a supplement. There will be an employer-funded pension scheme of 16% attached to the total salary.

Contact and application

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the Section Chief

Henrik Wiese at email [email protected].

If you have questions about salary and employment conditions, you can contact our HR consultants at email [email protected].

To apply for the position, you must click the link 'Apply for position' and follow the instructions.

If you proceed from the initial interviews, references from previous employers may be requested. You will be informed before a reference is requested.

Different perspectives make us stronger. Therefore Banedanmark values diversity and encourages all interested candidates, regardless of personal background, to apply even if you do not match all of our wishes.

We look forward to hearing from you.