Curious consultant for a maternity-leave cover in the Family and Prevention Secretariat

Can you use data and technology to make everyday life easier for managers and employees in our organization? Are you good at translating data into usable knowledge and motivated to make a difference in the children- and youth-area?

Then you could be our new colleague in the Family and Prevention Secretariat.

Maternity leave cover full-time | Period: 01.12.26 – 30.11.27 | Application deadline: 21.10.26

Who are we? You will become part of the Family and Prevention Secretariat, where 20 dedicated colleagues work across health, prevention and the specialized social area. The management consists of a Secretariat Chief, a Development Chief and the head of Family and Prevention. We are part of the Children and Youth Administration.

We share knowledge, support each other and have an eye for both detail and the whole. Our culture is characterized by trust, room for mistakes, humor and an informal tone. We have different professional backgrounds, including political science, public health science, sociology and sports and health.

Our core task is to drive development, support operations and create coherence in Family and Prevention and in the collaboration with relevant parties. We work, among other things, with development processes, project management and support for leaders and managers. We create coherence to the political level, in Odense Municipality and in the position you will be close to decision-making processes in the children and youth area.

We bring our competencies into play with a focus on the concrete task and succeed when our efforts strengthen prevention and contribute to the well-being, development and learning of children, youths and families. We collaborate closely with managers and employees in our departments:

• Center for Interventions for Children and Youth
• Children and Family Counseling
• Center for Dental Care
• Cross-cutting Health and Prevention

We also collaborate with the Children and Youth Administration's other departments: Staff, School and Daycare.

About the job As a maternity leave cover, you will play a central role in supporting development and operations in Family and Prevention. You work across professional areas and organizational units, and the tasks are prioritized and planned in dialogue with your immediate supervisor and your colleagues.

Data and system support

• You support the use of professional systems such as Novax, Targit, SBSYS and SurveyXact.
• You contribute to ensuring high data quality, you translate data into relevant management information and make data lively and usable in practice.
• You become the secretariat's go-to person on GDPR questions and collaborate with colleagues across the Children and Youth Administration.
• You solve tasks within digitization and automation.

Sustainable workflows in the secretariat

• You take responsibility for strengthening the secretariat's use of Copilot and Teams in daily task solving. You identify new use opportunities, share knowledge and develop e.g. AI agents. We are already well underway and look forward to your experience lifting our digital practice further.

Communication and web accessibility

• In collaboration with colleagues in the Children and Youth Administration's staff, you coordinate Family and Prevention pages on odense.dk and collaborate with the decentralized web editors.
• You contribute to content meeting current requirements and standards for web accessibility.

Cross-cutting consultancy tasks

• You handle other consultancy tasks that always arise in our daily life.
• You contribute to creating progress in development tasks, establishing structure and ensuring that solutions can be anchored and handed over.

The tasks are solved in close cooperation with colleagues in the secretariat and in the Family and Prevention departments. You report to the development chief.

About you As you may sense in this job advertisement, we are not tech nerds, and you do not need to be either. However, you should have a desire for and flair for developing our operations through data, automation and web accessibility. You see opportunities in digital tools like Copilot and Teams and dare to try new solutions. We are looking for a colleague who stands securely in their professional field and thrives in close collaboration with others. We imagine that you:

• Have a relevant higher education at bachelor or master’s level and an interest in working in a politically governed organization.
• Have experience with or desire for analysis, development and consultancy tasks.
• Have experience with data, digitization and development of well-functioning workflows.
• Have experience with Copilot and Teams.
• Communicate clearly and purposefully, both orally and in writing.
• Can coordinate tasks with many actors and create progress across disciplines.
• Work structured and independently and involve colleagues and leaders when relevant.

You may be newly educated, you may also have experience from a municipality or another politically governed organization. We do not expect you to master all areas from the start. The most important thing is that you are curious, learning-oriented and motivated for a consultancy role where systems, data and workflows support the organization’s everyday life.

We offer

• A versatile and meaningful maternity leave cover with great variation in tasks.
• A strong professional environment with dedicated colleagues, close collaboration and room for humor.
• A everyday life characterized by learning, development and close contact with the organization’s professional environments.

Salary and employment terms The position is a full-time maternity leave cover from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2027. Salary and terms follow the applicable agreement between KL and the negotiating organization. The position is paid according to the applicable agreement. The expected salary level will be provided before any interview and depends on experience and qualifications.

Want to know more? You are welcome to contact Development Chief Kristian Fahnøe Munksgaard at telephone 20 37 59 93 or [email protected] if you want to know more about the position.

The practical The application deadline is 21 October 2026, and we expect to conduct interviews on 26 October 2026.

The workplace is Ørbækvej 100, 5220 Odense SØ.