Division Coordinator for the Operations Division at the Home Guard Command

Do you have a holistic view, an overview and good collaboration skills, are analytically strong, and want to work at a strategic level in supporting the management?

Would you like the opportunity to demonstrate your strong competencies in analysis, initiative and collaboration within the framework of independent case handling, strategic planning and solving complex tasks that often intersect in time and space?

If yes, then you are the one we need.

About us

The Home Guard Command is organized into three divisions and an executive secretariat, each of which has a management coordinator. The Operations Division is led by the Chief of the Operations Division (your immediate supervisor), who reports to the Chief of Staff, and consists of the Operations Department, the Training Department, the Inspection and Operations Center Department, the Barracks Support Element and an integrated partner element from the Ministry of Defence’s Cyber & Information Security Division.

The Operations Division is responsible for the overall development, directives and coordination of the following areas in the Home Guard:

• Education of volunteers, reserve personnel and employees, in dialogue with the Home Guard School
• Operational readiness, demobilizations and deployments in national and international contexts, in close dialogue with the Armed Forces, the Police and the Emergency Services as authorities responsible for force deployment
• International collaborations, including contributions to stabilization efforts as well as education and exercise cooperation
• Military security, including advisory services and support to underlying authorities
• Cyber and information security and GDPR, including advisory services and support to underlying authorities
• Civil-military cooperation, including collaboration with critical societal companies
• Hybrid threats and development of cyber capacity in the Home Guard

In addition, the Operations Division, with participation from other parts of the Home Guard staff, must be able to establish the Home Guard Command’s Operational Staff in connection with planning and execution of operational tasks, including conducting exercise activities. The Head of the Operations Division is responsible for leading the Operational Staff with reference to the Chief of the Home Guard Staff. Likewise, the Operations Division handles the daily responsibility for FWG Readiness and Operations.

The Head of the Operations Division is also the Barracks Commander in Vordingborg.

About the position

As a Division Management Coordinator you will become part of the Home Guard Staff and take part in the staff leadership’s work to ensure effective management and coordination of the division’s tasks.

Your primary tasks will be to assume the role of facilitator for the management and coordination of the division’s tasks with a focus on quality on time and to support management and case handling in connection with the settlement work and the ongoing strengthening of the Home Guard.

You will play a central role in this work, which is carried out in close collaboration with managers and colleagues across the divisions. In addition, you will support the departments in their respective settlement work, including planning, coordination and reporting, in close collaboration with the Home Guard Command’s Settlement Secretariat.

More concretely, you as a Division Management Coordinator, in close collaboration with the department heads, will facilitate the daily management of the division’s task execution within the allocated resource limits, and ensure relevant management of the division’s overall goals, frameworks and priorities.

An important part of your work will be to develop an overview of the tasks that come to the division and ensure follow-up, quality assurance and adherence to deadlines. Likewise, ensure that tasks are allocated to the responsible departments, manage responses to e.g. access to information requests, citizen inquiries, audits and other questions within the division, and carry out ongoing professional development of the division’s processes and products.

Furthermore, you will, in collaboration with other resource persons in the division, assist the division head with management and coordination of the division’s overall ordinary operational tasks, resource consumption, various personnel administration and hiring, development contracts, competence development, working-time management, vacation and leave management, budget planning and monthly follow-up.

Finally, you will assist the division head with individual case handling of selected single cases, meeting preparations, meeting follow-up, support for travel and external meeting activities.

About you

You are an experienced administrator, senior adviser or have an equivalent level under another civil collective agreement. You have relevant experience from the labor market and preferably knowledge of working in a public authority. You have personal and professional impact, as you use your professional arguments and facts, and you put yourself in the recipient’s place.

You are constructive by nature, possess high integrity, have analytical sense and a holistic understanding that ensures a balance between task execution, resources and sometimes tight deadlines. You are strong in communication in both written and spoken form. You are a true team player who can create and maintain good relations across the staff and collaborators in the Ministry of Defence, parallel agencies and underlying authorities. It is important that you have a structured approach to your tasks, are action-oriented and independently drive your tasks.

As a person you are curious, outgoing and take on tasks. You enjoy working with a mix of general and concrete cases, including a focus on development and optimization. Last but not least, you have a ready smile and appreciate an informal tone among colleagues.

It is expected that you are a seasoned IT user (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint) and

can use various staff support tools (including WorkZone, DeMars and very much

Sitaware HQ and HJV.dk). A supplementary education can naturally be provided.

You are holistic and structured and can keep an overview in a sometimes hectic

daily life. The tasks in the department will be varied and occasionally appear with short notice. You must be able to come up with solutions and see development opportunities within your own and the department’s case areas and through your engagement contribute to turning an idea into reality.

You are well-formed in Danish and English, both orally and in writing, and can

communicate both formally and informally.

Employment terms

The position is advertised both civil and military

Employment and remuneration are in accordance with the applicable state framework agreement.

Depending on your qualifications and competencies, there is a possibility for negotiation of allowances. There is an employer-funded pension scheme associated with the position.

As an employee in the Ministry of Defence group you must be security cleared and maintain the security clearance throughout the employment period.

You as an employee have a duty to perform service outside the country’s borders, including at units in international operations.

The fixed place of service is in Vordingborg but after the initial period there may be individual workdays at Kastellet, just as it is possible to have home-working days by arrangement with the supervisor.

CONTACT AND APPLICATION

If you want to hear more about the job, you are welcome to contact Colonel Johnny Rahbek Thomsen at tel. 728 20061 or 4131 7180.

If you have questions about salary or employment terms, you can contact HR Consultant Pia Knudsen, Defence Personnel Command at telephone 3266 5783

The application deadline is 13 November 2026, interviews will be held on a rolling basis. Start date as soon as possible.

We will ask you to apply for the position via the link below. You are encouraged to attach documentation of relevant education. You also have the option to attach other relevant documents or you can bring them to a potential interview.

In the Ministry of Defence’s organization we believe that diversity optimizes task solving. Therefore we encourage all interested regardless of background to apply for the position.

As a workplace we focus on our employees’ well-being in relation to work-life balance, flexibility, competence development and employee involvement. We have professional environments and emphasize knowledge sharing across, process and holistic understanding and ongoing implementation of automated solutions

ABOUT THE HOME GUARD COMMAND

The Home Guard is a military readiness organization that is predominantly based on volunteer soldiers and is directly under the Ministry of Defence. The Home Guard Command comprises the Chief of the Home Guard and the Commissioner for the Home Guard as well as the Home Guard Staff. The Home Guard Command is responsible for the recruitment and education of personnel and units that on a voluntary basis strengthen the tasks of the Armed Forces, the Police and civil authorities. You can perhaps learn more on the website HJV.DK.