Experienced consultant for the Staff in Health and Elderly

Do you want to help create the best solutions for citizens in the health and elderly care area?

Are you passionate about development, change, and collaboration in a politically governed organization? Do you have a social science background, strong project management skills and a desire to play a central role in implementing the major reforms in health and elderly care? Then you may be our new colleague in the Staff in Health and Elderly.

Help turn ambitions into reality

In Health and Elderly, we are in the midst of a comprehensive organizational development and change process. With both the elderly reform and the health reform as a starting point, we are purposefully preparing a new organization that will take effect on January 1, 2027. The new organization must support turning the reforms' intentions into a noticeable positive difference for citizens.

In the Staff, we work closely with managers in Health and Elderly – and across the municipality's departments. Through alignment, we develop new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, strengthen the use of welfare technology and create strong partnerships with civil society. At the same time, we are working with a new governance logic, Citizen Journey , which puts the citizen's experience and needs at the center.

We are looking for a consultant colleague who would like to become part of the consultancy team in the Staff. Here you will contribute to ensuring that new initiatives are implemented in practice, followed up and anchored across the organization.

Your tasks

As a consultant in the Staff you will play an active role in contributing to the change process the organization is undergoing. You will, among other things, have a central role as project manager for one or more projects – this can be new as well as ongoing projects.

In addition, we expect you to perform the following tasks

• Preparation of political case materials and decision proposals
• Coordination across departments, areas of expertise and organizational levels
• Implementation, follow-up and ensuring compliance in development projects
• Analytical and development tasks with a focus on future welfare solutions
• Facilitation of workshops, meetings and competence development programs

We are looking for you who

• Have a master's degree in the social sciences, e.g., cand.scient.pol., cand.scient.adm. or equivalent
• Have solid experience in a generalist role in a municipal staff function – preferably within health, elderly care and care
• Can plan, drive and facilitate development and change processes from idea to implementation.
• Thrives in a politically governed organization and understands the terms that come with it
• Can navigate competently in complex development and change processes
• Are analytically strong and can translate data and knowledge into action
• Are structured and follow up tasks to completion
• Have organizational understanding and an eye for whole across departments
• Are an adept communicator both in writing and orally and can convey in a way that resonates with different target groups
• Can create engagement and motivation among employees and partners
• Dare to challenge existing practices and bring new perspectives into play
• Have a flexible approach to tasks and thrive with varied task solving

As a person you are proactive, curious and collaborative. You work independently and have an eye for the fact that the best solutions are created together and in alignment with key actors and stakeholders.

Who are we?

The Staff for Health and Elderly consists of about 35 employees with diverse professional backgrounds and areas of responsibility. We work with, among other things, development, finance, IT, student affairs and administrative tasks.

What unites us is that we support the health and elderly area’s core task through high professional standards, engagement, close collaboration and a focus on quality. We have independent areas of responsibility and are currently working on moving from responsibility to shared accountability, and through this have a strong ambition that tasks are lifted best in unity and with different perspectives as a prerequisite for success.

Why you should choose us

With us you get

• An exciting position with great influence on the development of the future health and elderly area
• Varied and complex tasks with a high degree of independence
• Good opportunities for professional and personal development
• An workplace with a high ceiling and strong collegiality
• Skilled and engaged colleagues who are passionate about their tasks
• Opportunity to work closely with both strategic decisions and practical implementation.

In the Municipality of Herning we work from the values of liberty to act, financial prudence, professionalism and good judgment .

Practical information

The position is in principle full-time with expected start date 1 December 2026 or as agreed .

Salary and employment terms are set according to the applicable collective agreement between KL and the negotiating organization.

Application deadline

Friday, 23 October 2026.

Interviews will be held

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

If you have questions

about the position, you are welcome to contact

• Head of the Staff in Health and Elderly, Rikke Broch by email: [email protected] / phone 20 99 61 58 (not reachable in week 41) or
• Chief Consultant, Tina Klejs at email: [email protected] / phone 51 30 65 31 (not reachable in week 43).

Read more about Herning Municipality at www.herning.dk .

In Herning Municipality we place emphasis on equality and diversity and encourage all qualified applicants to apply. Salary and employment terms are set according to the applicable collective agreement, including the provisions on local pay formation. We follow the principles of pay transparency, and you can find information about the salary level in Herning Municipality via this link: KRL . We process your personal data in accordance with GDPR and therefore only accept applications through our recruitment system. Click on SEARCH FOR THE JOB at the top to apply for this position.