Are you the consultant who can make public health move – right into everyday life?

Imagine, that your work not only ends as strategies, recommendations and good intentions – but as new habits, stronger communities and better opportunities for health in citizens' daily lives. It is the movement we want to create in Næstved Municipality - and we are looking for you who want to help start it.

First the most important: This is not just a desk job

You must of course be able to work strategically, methodically and evidence-based. But you must also be able to get people, disciplines and organizations to meet around something common. For public health does not arise only in the health system – it arises in schools, leisure life, workplaces, housing areas, communities and in the small choices that become easier when the frameworks are right.

As our new public health consultant you will be part of Team Public Health in Næstved Health Center. Here we work with health promotion, prevention and the framework for the good life – both close to citizens and across a large municipal organization.

You will not stand alone

You enter an engaged team, where we use each other’s expertise, ask curious questions and help each other translate ideas into something that works. We have high ambitions – and we believe that the best solutions are created in collaboration.

Your contact surface will be broad: colleagues across the municipality, associations, local and regional actors, business sector and other partners. Some days you will analyze and structure. Other days you will facilitate, translate, negotiate direction and build followership. Often you will have to do it all at once.

What should you succeed with?

You must help to make the Municipality of Næstved’s health policy, national recommendations and new legislation come alive in practice. Not as yet another document in the queue – but as concrete initiatives that can be felt by citizens, employees and cooperating partners.

You will work from idea to action: find patterns in data, translate knowledge into direction, bring the right people around the table and get interventions to land in a municipal reality. The themes can be well-being, physical activity, mental health or other areas where frameworks and communities can make health more possible for more people.

It requires analytical sense, strategic view and the ability to create energy around a common task. You must be able to see both the big picture and the small practical steps that make things happen.

If you recognize yourself here, read on

We do not imagine that you come with all the answers in advance. But we hope that you come with solid professional expertise, curiosity and the desire to create solutions together with others.

You do not have to be loud – but you must be able to get others on board

• You have a relevant education at a minimum bachelor level – and preferably further education that strengthens your public health toolbox.
• You have at least five years of relevant experience with public health, prevention, health promotion or related areas.
• You can drive processes forward without losing people along the way.
• You like to work data-driven and methodically – but also know that analyses only gain value when translated into action.
• You have an eye for how to navigate in a politically governed organization with many considerations and collaboration interfaces.
• You can translate national recommendations, legislation and knowledge into solutions that make sense locally.
• You communicate clearly – whether the audience is citizens, colleagues, management, politicians or partners.
• You build relationships, create trust and get people to see themselves in the shared task.
• You want to be an active part of a team where professionalism, sparring and humor go hand in hand.
• You have an IT flair and preferably skills in Microsoft 365, data visualization, presentation materials, policy issues and systematic documentation.

Why choose us?

• Because you get a job where public health is not an abstract ambition, but a concrete task.
• Because you become part of a team with high professionalism, engagement and willingness to develop something new.
• Because you get the opportunity to work both strategically, project-oriented and very practically.
• Because you get a broad contact surface and can create results together with many different actors.
• Because we have ambitions in the public health area – and need a colleague who can help raise them.

The position is 32 hours per week with commencement January 1, 2027.

You can see the job and person profile here

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms follow the applicable collective agreement between KL and the relevant professional organization.

Information about starting salary and expected salary range

Via link here you can see information about the relevant salary range for the position. Select Næstved Municipality, the relevant job category/collective agreement and the specific position. The relevant information will then appear in the table.

Would you like to know more?

If you would like to hear more about the position, the tasks or the team, you are very welcome to contact the team leader for Health Promotion and Prevention, Maya Kryger, at tel. 3033 2273 or public health consultant Stine Rehn at tel. 2138 2586 – preferably between 09.00 and 15.00.

Commencement : January 1, 2027

Application deadline

October 23, 2026

Employment interviews

Employment interviews are expected to be held Friday, November 6, 2026 and possibly a second interview in week 46.

You apply for the position by sending application, CV, relevant documentation and educational certificates electronically via the applicant button “Apply”.

Please indicate in your application what opportunities you see to strengthen public health in Næstved Municipality – and how you will help turn them into reality.