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

Are you scientifically educated 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 Danish 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 within the administration of fish quotas as well as the various permits associated with commercial fishing, fish and shellfish farming, 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 fisheries control, and our colleagues in the ministry and in dialogue with stakeholders in the area.

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

Your tasks

As our new scientific colleague you will be part of the team that works with permits for commercial fishing, experimental fishing and biogenic reefs, and where, as part of the permits, there must be an environmental assessment of activities in relation to, among other things, Natura 2000, protected species and the water environment. Your tasks will include, among other things, developing administrative practice 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 opportunity to take on or contribute to other tasks in the team’s overall task portfolio.

Your qualifications

We expect you to

• Be scientifically trained and have experience with significance assessments and habitat regulations as well as environmental impact assessments.
• Be systematic and thorough in your work.
• Be a skilled communicator in both writing and speaking, who can translate and convey complex knowledge in an easily understandable way.
• Be a team player who with curiosity and proactivity takes responsibility for the common and cross-disciplinary problem solving.
• Move easily between the overview and the detail; you quickly identify the essential elements in a complex knowledge base and can convey challenges and potential solutions.
• Thrive with several different tasks, including the more routine ones related to issuing permits.
• Can navigate in a politically governed organization and have an awareness that your results are used by colleagues in the office, with stakeholders and in our department.

We also expect you to want to work across disciplines with deeply engaged colleagues to solve our task of ensuring the factual basis to be able to manage the fisheries area in relation to environmental conditions.

Salary and terms of employment

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

The employing area is the Ministry of the Environment with its associated institutions.

The duty station 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 want to know more, you are welcome to contact section head Therese Hvidberg-Hansen at tel. 72185704 or head of office Eva Hedegaard Gjelstrup, at tel. 72276170.

How to apply for the position

You apply 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 prior to any potential interview.

Application deadline: 25 October 2026

Department: Lerchesgade 35 5000 Odense C

Location: Nørresundby