Educator

Pedagogical staff member with an interest in metal and mechanics for STU Syddjurs

Do you want to create well-being, development and new opportunities for young people through meaningful workshop work?

Can you build a safe relationship with young people with special needs? Do you also have skilled hands and experience with metalworking, welding, mechanics or other practical workshop activities?

Then you may be the new colleague we are looking for on our workshop line at STU Syddjurs.

We are creating a new position as a result of increasing student numbers. You will become part of the workshop line and will have the metal workshop as your primary area of work. Here you will use both your pedagogical professional skills and your practical competencies to create activities, learning and development that have meaning for the individual young person.

With us, workshop work is not just a goal in itself. It is an pedagogical tool to strengthen the students' self-esteem, work identity, social skills and belief in their own possibilities.

For more information about STU Syddjurs you can visit www.stu-syddjurs.dk.

About the workshop line and your role

The workshop line consists of three primary areas: the wood workshop, the metal workshop and the green outdoor team.

You will primarily be attached to the metal workshop. Here you plan and carry out practical and development-oriented activities together with the students. We work, among other things, with smaller productions for use or sale.

The finished product is visible and clear, but even more important is the process and the recognition, mastery and pride that the student experiences along the way.

Activities may include, among others

• Basic metalworking
• Welding tasks
• Repair and maintenance
• Mechanical tasks
• Design and production of smaller products
• Working with tools, machines and materials
• Structuring work processes from idea to finished product

You do not need to be a trained blacksmith or mechanic. However, we expect you to have practical skills and experience so you can safely and independently develop and carry out relevant activities within metal, welding and possibly mechanics.

If you have additional craft skills or an interest in the wood workshop and the green area, we see that as an advantage.

Pedagogy comes first

A large part of our students have previously had significant challenges with well-being, participation and attendance in school and education programs. Therefore, planning always starts from the individual student's prerequisites, resources, daily form and individual learning goals.

We often say that our work here is 80 percent pedagogy and 20 percent teaching and workshop professionalism . You should be able to see yourself in that.

You will as a starting point be responsible for teaching and activities on the workshop line three days a week. The remaining days you join other subjects, activities and cross-cutting tasks.

All staff at STU Syddjurs can over time be attached to other lines or activities. We do not expect you in advance to have professional competences in all our areas. We do, however, expect you to be flexible, curious and willing to acquire new skills as well as assist colleagues across the organization.

Who are you?

We are primarily looking for the right person with the right attitudes.

You have good pedagogical expertise and a natural ability to be with young people. You can build trustful relationships and actively use the relationship to motivate the young person to learn and develop.

You are patient without becoming passive and ambitious on the student's behalf without setting unrealistic demands. You can create calm and direction, even when a student becomes uncertain, withdraws or reacts to demands and changes.

At the same time, you want workshop-based work. You thrive on translating ideas into concrete activities and products where students with very different prerequisites can participate and experience that their efforts have value.

We imagine that you have several of the following competences

• You have a pedagogical education.
• You are good at forming relationships and using them actively in work with the young people's development.
• You have a strong interest in practical and workshop-based work.
• You have experience with metalworking, welding, mechanics or related areas.
• You can develop activities where students with different prerequisites can participate meaningfully.
• You can work independently, in a structured and development-oriented way and take responsibility for your tasks.
• You can apply your pedagogical expertise reflexively and work systematically with goals, documentation and evaluation.
• You preferably have experience with young people with special needs and with the age group 17 to 25 years.
• You have an appreciative and respectful approach and can maintain calm, overview and professionalism in complex situations.
• You actively contribute to professional reflection and collaboration with your colleagues.
• You are engaged, flexible and adaptable and contribute with humor and positive energy where possible.
• You can take on the role of contact person for three to four students.
• You can navigate the tension between quality of life, personal development and development of work identity.
• You preferably have knowledge of or training in KRAP.

We are fully aware that no prospective employee can check all boxes. The most important is that you have the pedagogical human approach, relational competences and the desire to use workshop work as a springboard for the young people's development.

We offer

We ourselves believe that STU Syddjurs is a very special workplace. We hope you will experience that as well.

With us you will get

• A workplace with high well-being and great job satisfaction
• Good frameworks for pedagogical work
• An engaged, professionally curious and helpful staff group
• Great influence on planning everyday activities
• Opportunity to bring both your pedagogical and practical professional skills into play
• A work environment with room for initiative, reflection and new ideas
• A strong collegial community focusing on collaboration and shared responsibility
• Opportunity to shape the development of the workshop line and STU Syddjurs
• A meaningful job where you can make a tangible difference for young people on the road to adulthood

Working hours and terms of employment

The position is 37 hours per week.

The teaching follows the schools' holiday schedule. The working hours are therefore distributed over roughly 42 working weeks. This means that the actual weekly working hours during the workweeks are about 41 hours.

Because of our club offering, the working hours are every Thursday from 12:00 to 19:00.

The position is to be filled as soon as possible and no later than December 1, 2026.

Salary and terms of employment are set according to the applicable collective agreement with SL.

Information evening for interested applicants

If your curiosity is piqued, we encourage you to read more about our students, lines and pedagogical work at www.stu-syddjurs.dk and participate in our information evening.

Over many years we have had good experiences inviting interested applicants to an information evening where we tell more about the work at STU Syddjurs.

There will be ample opportunity to ask questions about the position and the workplace.

The purpose is for you to gain an honest and thorough insight into the job before you decide whether to apply. We want candidates to have a properly informed basis.

We have used this format for about 15 years and have very good experiences with it. We therefore recommend participation to anyone curious about the position, even if you are unsure whether it is for you or if you meet the criteria.

Discretion will naturally be observed by all parties.

For practical reasons, please register for the evening by email to [email protected]

The information evening will be held

Monday, October 19, 2026 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

STU Syddjurs

Kirkevej 13A

8544 Mørke

Contact

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

Leader Troels Jensen

Phone: 23 62 55 17

Application deadline

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM.

We expect to hold the hiring interviews Monday, October 26, 2026 between 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Syddjurs Municipality encourages everyone to apply for the position regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, disability, etc.

Syddjurs Municipality uses digital recruitment, see available positions at www.syddjurs.dk/job

We are the largest workplace in Syddjurs with about 3,200 employees. Employees who every day go to work to help and support the municipality's citizens. Through dialogue with businesses, users and citizens, we ensure shared responsibility for the development of the Municipality.

We have a Collaboration Basis that builds on five guiding principles; Conversations , Community, Action-orientation, Responsibility and Development.

See glimpses of our collaboration across our workplaces here

You can read more about our collaboration basis via the following link Collaboration Basis .

Syddjurs Municipality has about 44,000 inhabitants, five main towns and a large catchment area with many villages. We are a municipality in development and every year many families choose to move here. Our strengths are active citizens, the many townships, an outstanding nature and proximity to the big city of Aarhus.

We are an active part of development in the Central Jutland region, including Business Region Aarhus, which is a collaboration between the 12 eastern municipalities with a total of one million East Jutlanders, half a million workplaces and the country's largest growth area outside the capital region.