Development Consultant for Construction and Urban Development

Would you like to help strengthen and develop the Future Port in Svendborg, its maritime history and the landscape qualities? Would you like to help make the most important things better instead of striving for more, bigger, more and faster, so everyone can live and experience the good life in Svendborg? Then you may be our new development consultant!

Svendborg Municipality is evolving. We have a high level of in-migration, many exciting development projects and a vibrant activity level. By Svendborg Harbour and in the city's development areas we are in full swing translating visions and plans into concrete projects that create value for the whole of Svendborg.

We have more tasks than we have hands, and therefore we are now looking for a new colleague who can help mature and drive some of the municipality's most strategic, complex and exciting development projects .

About the job

As a new colleague in the Harbour and City team you will have an important role in shaping Svendborg's development. You will participate in cross-cutting projects as a project participant and as project manager be responsible for driving several concrete projects.

Currently we are working among other things with

• Development and realization of a parking house at the harbour
• Development of temporary youth housing in connection with the new educational institutions
• Collaboration with Realdania on the development of the so-called blue zones
• Climate adaptation of the harbour area with focus on added value and urban quality
• Development of future projects within new housing types, recreational areas, opening of waterways and transformation of existing buildings and warehouses.

Your tasks will among other things be to

• lead and coordinate complex projects across the organization
• drive development and planning processes from idea to realization
• create momentum and ensure coherence between strategy, planning and execution
• facilitate collaboration between many different actors and disciplines
• prepare decision proposals and service the political level
• contribute to development of tenders, partnerships and cooperation models
• ensure that the projects contribute to the municipality's overall development goals.

The starting point for our work in Harbour and City is the Development Plan for the Future Harbour, 2025. It can be found on our website www.fremtidenshavn.dk

The municipality's particular strengths are set out in the overall Development Strategy 2023, which also forms the municipality's planning strategy. It can be found on the municipality's website, https://www.svendborg.dk/politik-og-indflydelse/udvikling/udviklingsstrategi-fra-mere-til-bedre/

About you

We are looking for the capable project manager who easily finds the balance between driving projects forward, using the latest knowledge and expertise, and involving and listening to colleagues, citizens and business. You must be a strong team player

Your educational background is less important to us. You could be town planner, land surveyor, architect, engineer, geographer or have another relevant profile. The crucial thing is that you are passionate about urban development and have experience of translating complex ideas into concrete projects.

We expect that you

• understand strategic urban development and can connect individual projects to larger contexts
• are strong in project and process management
• have experience in delivering results through collaboration and relationships
• can help set direction and build followership without having formal personnel responsibility
• thrive with many stakeholders and different agendas
• can mature projects and bring them forward to the construction phase
• work structured and have an eye for both the big picture and details
• are curious, pragmatic and can navigate constructively in complex processes and projects where frameworks and assumptions change along the way.
• are patient. Good urban planning takes time.

It is an advantage if you have experience from a politically governed organization, but not a requirement. It is, however, a requirement that you are a strong team player, focused on making your colleagues great and understand how to navigate the shifting considerations that a politically governed organization entails.

About us

You will become part of Building and City Development, consisting of Building and BBR, the Planning Department and Harbour and City Team.

We work at Frederiksø, centrally at Svendborg Harbour, and we are a department with a wonderful mix of experienced staff and new faces who have joined in recent years. The professionalism and engagement are high and we together create a department where well-being and task solving go hand in hand.

We collaborate with all municipal departments, and we are deeply concerned with a holistic approach to planning and project development, so we ensure that politically adopted projects become real.

You will become part of the Harbour and City team, a small team of 5 (including you), who work with development projects of strategic importance for both the harbour and the city. We help develop, coordinate and realize projects that shape Svendborg's future. We follow the projects all the way from the first ideas and sketches to the projects are matured, planned and ready for realization. Most often we are project managers in the development phase and project participants in the construction phase and in close cooperation with colleagues with planning, legal or construction-technical competencies.

You will become part of a professionally strong environment where we help each other, share knowledge and lift together. The department is characterized by an informal, yet professional approach to tasks, which takes place in close dialogue with relevant colleagues, citizens, business, stakeholders and politicians. We have an organization with short decision paths, we base our cooperation on trust and we fundamentally think it should be fun and meaningful to go to work.

Therefore it is important for us that there is a good balance between work and leisure and you can therefore expect a high degree of flexibility, whether it is about working from home or pick-up arrangements.

About Svendborg Municipality

Svendborg Municipality, in our view, is a workplace of a perfectly sized: We are small enough to be close to each other in a warm informal community with short chains of command and without hidden agendas. And we are large enough to have room for ambitions, high professionalism and rich opportunities for development.

We enjoy everyday life and insist that it should be nice to go to work. We are busy, but not too busy to help each other.

Our values are not only on paper, we actually use them as a compass every day. We meet each other at eye level, in dialogue and with trust, and together we create a safe framework where we all can solve our tasks independently, flexibly and responsibly.

Salary and employment

The position is a permanent full-time appointment with expected start on 1 January 2027.

Salary and employment terms negotiated according to the applicable collective agreement between KL and the trade union.

In Svendborg Municipality the salary for this type of position ranges between 52,969 and 67,203 DKK per month at full-time employment. Salary includes pension, special holiday allowance and fixed allowances. There may also be work-time allowances and other special payments. It is important to note that your concrete salary is determined by your experience, seniority and competencies and agreed upon in negotiations with the relevant trade union.

We have great flexibility in planning tasks and the possibility for home working.

You will have your workplace at Frederiksø, on the harbour by Svendborg town, 2 minutes' walk from the station.

Svendborg Municipality has a smoke-free working time. We want smoke-free working time to contribute to a healthy working environment for all employees.

Application deadline is Wednesday 11 November 2026 at 08:00, and we will conduct interviews on Wednesday 18 November 2026. A possible follow-up interview will take place Tuesday 24 November 2026.

If you want to hear more about the position, you are welcome to contact the head of department for Building and City Development, Anders Tang Kjærved at tel. 5168 8131 or Jette Flinch Nyrop at tel. 2371 7559.

All inquiries will be treated confidentially.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Welcome to Svendborg - the capital of the archipelago!

Svendborg has a superb location in the heart of the most beautiful nature, on the edge of the South Funen Archipelago and with a mini-metropolis that offers it all. We do not shy away when we proudly call Svendborg the cultural capital of Funen. We have a charming town centre and a lively trading town with theatres and museums as well as a rich voluntary sector.

Our day care and primary schools are top quality, with a special focus on movement and sport, and we have several higher education institutions that will soon gather in an attractive educational environment by the harbour. Svendborg is located in the middle of the country with a half hour to Odense and under two hours to Copenhagen and Aarhus. Svendborg, with its about 60,000 inhabitants, is Funen's second-largest municipality.