Economists with an interest in the social housing sector

Are you analytically strong, and would you like to work with data and analyses in the housing sector?

Then you may be our new colleague at the Office for Housing in Copenhagen.

Office for Housing

We are looking for 1-2 economists for the Office for Housing, which broadly deals with all housing conditions in Denmark. We contribute to policy development and new legislation based on statistics, analyses and economic impact assessments. We have a particular focus on the development of the social housing sector, which accounts for 20 percent of the housing market and forms the daily life of 1 million people.

The Office for Housing is located in Copenhagen, where we share domicile and the workday with colleagues in our sister office for Construction. We are a total of about 70 professional employees, of which about 30 are in the Office for Housing, organized into three teams led by a Office Manager and two team leaders.

Your tasks

You will be anchored in either the Housing Economy team or the Housing Data and Area Initiatives team, where you will solve your tasks in collaboration with colleagues in your team, the rest of the office and the ministry department. Your tasks primarily consist of preparing analyses and processing registry data in the housing area, including in relation to the financing of social housing. A substantial part of solving a task is to communicate your results clearly and precisely in writing – and also in speech.

Within several of the office's areas we work strategically to update and further develop the technical support of the office's data and calculation tasks – including in some cases to achieve a higher degree of automation. Depending on your interests and competencies you can also become part of this work.

The tasks typically include

• Prepare analyses based on registry data for the social housing sector
• Prepare calculations, economic analyses and impact assessments of political initiatives in the housing area
• Participate in the further development of the technical support of the office's data- and calculation tasks
• Contribute to the ongoing department- and ministerial support within the office's areas of responsibility, including legislative preparatory work

Your profile

We expect that you have strong quantitative skills and a relevant social science Master’s degree, such as cand.polit, cand.oecon or cand.scient.oecon, but other relevant degrees may also be considered. It is an advantage if you have experience programming in SAS, R or Python or have experience with similar programs and a willingness to learn new things. You may have a few years of experience, but you can also be a recent graduate.

In addition we value that you

• Have experience or interest in working with analyses of large data sets/registry data
• Work analytically, are detail-oriented and quality-conscious
• Can work independently and at the same time enjoy collaborating with skilled colleagues with different professional backgrounds
• Take responsibility, are thorough and follow tasks through to the end
• Can express yourself precisely and understandable in writing and verbally

About the Danish Agency for Housing and Urban Affairs

The Danish Agency for Housing and Urban Affairs is a workplace with an exciting, relevant and busy daily life, a strong collegial togetherness, an informal tone and a high level of ambition. We offer flexible working conditions with the possibility for home office days by agreement. Offices for Housing and Construction are located on Holmens Kanal in Copenhagen.

Salary and terms of employment

We are seeking 1-2 employees for the Office. The positions are permanent full-time with start on 1 January 2027.

You are employed under the State Academics sector collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the academic organisations. Your job title will depend on your experience. The expected salary level is communicated at a potential first interview and set based on objective and gender-neutral criteria, including education, experience, competencies and job responsibilities.

If we offer you the position, you will be asked to send a private criminal record certificate for assessment of whether you can be employed. Employment is thus conditional on presenting the criminal record and on satisfactory information in the certificate.

The position's area of employment is the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing with associated institutions. The workplace is the Danish Agency for Housing and Urban Affairs, Holmens Kanal 22, 1060 Copenhagen K.

Application deadline and conduct of interviews

You submit your application and relevant documentation (CV and examination papers) electronically via the job posting on our website www.sbst.dk . The application deadline is 2 November 2026.

We expect to conduct the first round of interviews in week 46 and the second round in week 47, 2026. There will be a case task for the second interview.

Want to know more?

You can obtain more information about the position and the Danish Agency for Housing and Urban Affairs by contacting Trine Tornøe Platz at [email protected] or phone 24 90 13 80 or Ditte Håkonsson Lyngemark at [email protected] or phone 41 71 78 53.