Experienced colleague for the Environmental Protection Agency's Section for Fisheries Permits

Are you educated in natural sciences and would you like to work with fishing, aquaculture facilities and environmental assessments? Then you may be our new colleague in the Danish Environmental Protection Agency's team for Fisheries Permits.

About us

The Environmental Protection Agency's Office for Quota Administration and Fisheries Permits has 22 employees in three sections under the leadership of three section heads and one head of office. We administer, manage and ensure the professional basis for the administration of fish quotas as well as the various permits associated with commercial fishing, aquaculture of fish and shellfish, and the establishment of biogenic reefs.

In the office environment you will work together with other professional groups such as lawyers and generalists, among others. Many of our tasks are solved in collaboration with our fishery control, and our colleagues in the ministry and in dialogue with stakeholders in the area.

It is a professional area with strong political focus and many development tasks in the coming years.

Your tasks

As our new natural sciences colleague you will be part of the team that works with permits for commercial fishing, experimental fishing and biogenic reefs, where, as part of the permits, an environmental assessment of activities must take place in relation to for example Natura 2000, protected species and the water environment. Your tasks will include developing administrative practices in relation to the environmental assessments and participating in the team's tasks of issuing concrete permits for commercial fishing.

Depending on qualifications and preferences there is the possibility to take on or contribute to other tasks in the team's overall portfolio.

Your qualifications

We expect you to

• Be educated in natural sciences and have experience with significance assessments and the habitat regulations as well as environmental assessments.
• Be systematic and thorough in your work.
• Be a skilled communicator in both writing and speaking, who can translate and distill complex knowledge into an easily understandable form.
• Be a team player who, with curiosity and proactivity, takes responsibility for the joint and cross-disciplinary task solving.
• Move easily between the overview and the detail; you quickly identify the essential elements in a complex knowledge base and can communicate challenges and potential solutions.
• Thrive with several different tasks, including the more routine ones related to issuing permits.
• Can navigate a politically driven organisation and have a sense that your results are used by colleagues in the office, by stakeholders, and in our department.

We also expect that you want to work cross-disciplinarily with deeply engaged colleagues to solve our task of ensuring the professional basis to be able to manage the fishery sector in relation to the environmental conditions.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms are in accordance with the current Collective Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a number of academic organizations for academics in the state (the Academic Collective Agreement).

The workplace is the Ministry of the Environment with its associated institutions.

The place of work will be the Environmental Protection Agency, Lindholm Brygge 31, Nørresundby.

The position is full-time.

Expected start date is 1 January 2027 or by agreement.

Further information

If you would like to know more, you are welcome to contact section head Therese Hvidberg-Hansen at tel. 72185704 or head of office Eva Hedegaard Gjelstrup, tel. 72276170.

How to apply for the position

You apply for the position online by sending your application, CV and diploma etc. no later than Sunday 25 October 2026.

We plan to hold interviews on 28 or 29 October

You may be asked to prepare a case before a potential interview.