Experienced consultant to support DTU's top management - Department for Policy and Relations

Do you have substantial experience supporting top management in complex and politically sensitive matters? Can you translate extensive and technically complex material into clear decision-making bases and contribute to progress across a large organisation? Do you have experience from the education and research sector? And do you have an eye for political agendas and realising corporate strategies? Then you may be our new colleague.

We are looking for an experienced consultant for DTU’s policy office, who will become a close sparring partner for the office head. You will work closely with DTU’s board, the rector and other daily management, and contribute to ensuring that the overall management has a clear and operational basis for making decisions in matters with large strategic, political or organisational significance.

You should also help strengthen the overall support to DTU’s board and daily management through coherent and robust processes, clear workflows and systematic follow-up. This should support good governance and meet increased needs for management information, e.g. as a result of new regulatory requirements from authorities.

You will also play a central role in supporting DTU’s dialogue with the outside world, with a view to making research-based knowledge available in society – for authorities, politicians, businesses and other stakeholders. This could be, for example, collaboration with institutes and research communities on societally relevant themes, analyses of strategically important areas that can be used to prioritise research, education and innovation in political contexts or to assess DTU’s impact on society.

An experienced consultant close to DTU’s top management

The position requires that you quickly get up to speed on new case areas, identify what is management-relevant and ensure a clear process from analysis to decision and follow-up. You must be able to work independently and have good judgement, but also generate results through close collaboration with academic environments among the university’s institutes and centres, as well as administrative units.

Your tasks will include

• Process leadership and coordination: Design coherent and robust processes in relation to DTU’s board and daily management and across academic and administrative units. Create momentum and ensure clear deliverables, responsibilities and systematic follow-up.
• Political analysis and communication: Monitor political agendas, Parliament’s legislative programme and government policy proposals, and prepare regular monthly policy briefs and mini-analyses for management.
• Strategy: Support the leadership’s work with value-creating links between the board’s strategy and the university’s core tasks.
• External dialogue: Prepare and support DTU’s dialogue with politicians, ministries, agencies, organisations and other key stakeholders.
• Cross-cutting activities: Contribute to the management’s participation in conferences and other management- and policy-related activities.

Work will take place in close collaboration with the office head, the department director and the management. You will have independent responsibility for selected cases and are expected to contribute to advising the top management, even when issues are new, time-critical or characterised by conflicting considerations.

You will become part of a professionally strong environment at an internationally recognised knowledge institution. The position provides a high level of influence, significant responsibility and a central role in both management support and dialogue with political stakeholders.

You understand decision-making processes and create results through collaboration

We are seeking a profile with a relevant academic master's degree and substantial experience with management support, political advisory or advocacy from, for example, a ministry, an agency, a political organisation, a NGO or another large and complex organisation.

You are used to working at the intersection of substantive subject matter, organisation and decision processes. You can translate complex issues into clear recommendations and thrive with responsibility in cases where quality, timing and relationships are crucial.

We imagine that you

• have documented experience in preparing decision bases at top-management level
• are a strong written communicator who can condense complex material, formulate clear recommendations and tailor messages to different recipients
• have political understanding, organisational judgement and a sense for both substance, process and stakeholders
• can drive cross-cutting processes independently, create momentum and follow up until the task is firmly completed
• can build trusted relationships and collaborate constructively with both leaders, specialists and external stakeholders
• thrive with high complexity and tight deadlines without losing overview or quality

About the Policy and Leadership Office

You will be part of a team of about 12 employees in the Department for Policy and Relations. The office functions as the university’s management secretariat and supports DTU’s board, board chair, the rector and the executive, and generally works with management support, political analyses and advocacy. We solve the tasks in close collaboration with professional offices, institutes and other units across DTU.

We emphasise high professional quality, mutual sparring and a professional, trustful collaborative culture. You will have significant independent responsibility and the opportunity to develop through, among other things, further education, while also having access to ongoing sparring with experienced colleagues and management.

We also prioritise collegiality with social activities and joint skills development. This contributes to strong cohesion and a daily life where we know each other well, share knowledge and help each other to succeed.

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and terms of employment in accordance with the collective agreement for academics in the state. You will be employed as a senior- or chief-consultant depending on experience and qualifications. There may also be a possibility to negotiate allowances in accordance with DTU’s pay structure for AC TAP: https://www.inside.dtu.dk/human-resources/under-ansaettelsen/loen/loenstrukturer

The position is 37 hours per week. Expected start date is February 1, 2027. Work location is DTU Lyngby.

Application and contact

We must receive your online application no later than 23 November 2026 . Open the link "Apply now" where you fill out the application form and attach a motivated application, CV and certificates.

If you are curious to know more about the position, you are welcome to call Director Camilla Mørk at 2246 9201 or Acting Office Manager Tobias Eskildsen at 5180 1589.

Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

All interested, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background, are encouraged to apply for the position. Since DTU conducts research in critical technology, there are particular rules regarding security and export controls, and there may be open-source background checks of qualified candidates for the position.

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DTU is one of Europe’s leading technical elite universities. With research and education of international top level, we create solutions to the major societal challenges of our time and help secure Europe’s global lead in sustainable technology development. Since H.C. Ørsted founded DTU nearly 200 years ago, our mission has been the same: We develop and apply natural and technical science for the benefit of society. DTU has 13,800 students, 1,600 PhD students and 6,500 staff.

We work in an international environment and have an inclusive, developmental and informal work culture. DTU has campuses throughout Denmark and in Greenland and collaborates with the best universities in the world.