Experienced management consultant for North Zealand's prison and remand prison

Would you like to support the prison director and the management team at Nordsjællands fængsel og arrest in ensuring a healthy and efficient operation, while we face large and exciting projects, then now is the time to apply for the position as management consultant with us.

We offer

We are looking for a profile that thrives in working with managerial, administrative, and cross-cutting tasks through coordination, qualification, and quality assurance. You will help ensure the institution's operations so that tasks, decisions, and processes are handled professionally, consistently, and in a timely manner and in accordance with applicable law, rules, internal guidelines and other relevant compliance requirements.

You will have an important role in supporting that decisions are not only made but also implemented. With us you will get an cross-cutting role in an exciting workplace that consists of Udlændingecenter Ellebæk, Udrejsecenter Sjælsmark, Horserød Fængsel and Helsingør Arrest.

You will play a key role in both the management group and the institution with both fixed operational administrative tasks, cross-cutting activities and projects under the prison reform.

You will become part of a workplace with a multidisciplinary work environment, a well-functioning management group, and skilled and engaged colleagues.

About you

We emphasize that you have experience working in a politically governed organization and can work loyally and systematically with both attention to detail and a holistic view regarding the overall task handling. The position requires that you can understand the needs of the management and other stakeholders, and that you quickly can read a situation that requires follow-up.

Finally, you must be a strong role model with clear values and promote the organization's values through your own actions by leading the way and creating a good working environment for the staff as well as a good living environment for our residents, detainees and inmates. You will be the one who proactively helps ensure that we maintain an overview when the waves rise and ensure that we are always one step ahead and complete tasks on time.

We expect that you have several of the following professional competences

• Relevant academic education combined with relevant professional experience
• It would be advantageous to have knowledge of and legal experience with the criminal enforcement area and the immigration area
• Administrative competences
• High level of written and oral communication to people with different professional backgrounds
• Understanding of and ability to operate in a politically governed organization with many stakeholders and often opposing interests
• Understanding of and ability to work with current rules, guidelines and compliance requirements
• Facilitation of larger and smaller groups in connection with workshops, processes and meetings
• Organizational understanding

We expect that you have several of the following personal competences

• Strong communication skills
• Good relational competences
• Works independently and proactively
• Focus on the details as well as the bigger picture
• Has personal impact
• Has integrity and discernment in handling confidential information and management matters
• Works with respect for other professions
• Has good collaboration skills and ability to network
• Is curious and proactive
• Can prioritize in a busy daily life with many balls in the air

Your tasks

Leadership support : You contribute with general leadership support, including sparring with the managers at a strategic level. You take responsibility and work independently to prepare drafts, concepts and decision briefs for the prison director, including meeting preparation, minutes writing and helping ensure follow-up/implementation of decisions.

Administration : You will handle our institution's mailbox and prepare, coordinate and quality-assure consultation responses and case papers. You also contribute with relevant sparring and support of the administrative processes. You are the coordinator of the data protection and information security tasks in the institution.

Authority visits : You coordinate and handle inspections, supervision and visits from other authorities and partners, just as you ensure preparation, follow-up and evaluations of international supervisory visits.

Project management : You drive and support development tasks and professional projects and contribute to the implementation and anchoring of new initiatives across the institution.

About us

Nordsjællands fængsel og arrest is organizationally under the Prison Circle East, and the institution has capacity for 257 inmates and detainees spread across Horserød Prison with 67 places, Helsingør Arrest with 69 places and Udlændingecenter Ellebæk with 121 places, as well as Udrejsecenter Sjælsmark, which has capacity up to 600 residents, and which is run under a cooperation agreement with the Danish Immigration Service.

Your daily base will be at Horserød Prison, but you will largely work across the four sites and will often have meetings and tasks at the other three locations.

Salary and employment terms

The position is a permanent full-time role with an average weekly working time of 37 hours. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

Employment and remuneration are conducted in accordance with the applicable collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Public Employees (AC). Link to the AC agreement: Circular on the collective agreement for academics in the state | Rules, agreements and circulars

If you are already employed as a civil servant in the state, there will be an opportunity to maintain your civil servant employment.

The employment area is Denmark's Prisons.

Work location is currently located at Esrumvej 367, 3000 Helsingør.

Application

The position is applied for electronically via the link "Apply for the position".

Application, CV and documentation of education as well as other relevant material must be received in the recruitment system no later than 22 November 2026 .

Interviews will be held in week 48.

If you are invited to an interview, you must bring identification, e.g. passport or driver's license.

It is a prerequisite for employment that you, in connection with the interview, consent to Denmark's Prisons obtaining and assessing information about you from the Central Criminal Register.

Security clearance is a prerequisite for employment, just as you must be able to maintain security clearance throughout your employment.

Denmark's Prisons sees diversity as a strength, and invites all interested candidates regardless of personal background to apply

Further information

If you have questions, you are welcome to contact the following: chief for Nordsjællands fængsel og arrest Tine Vigild 20148801.

About Denmark's Prisons, Prison Circle East

Prison Circle East consists of a regional office, open and closed prisons, detention centers and supervision, as well as ankle monitor units, transport and guarding, an eject center and an immigration center across all of Zealand, Bornholm and the Faroe Islands.

In total about 2300 employees.

For further information about Denmark's Prisons please refer to the website www.danmarksfængsler.dk