Professional coordinator for local planning sought for the Department of Planning and Development at Syddjurs Municipality

In Planning and Development you will become part of a social and professionally strong coworker community, where a well-functioning collaboration both within the department and across Culture and Development is crucial to our success.

We have exciting and challenging projects as well as good colleagues ready to welcome you. We are looking for an experienced local planner who wants to get a peek of leadership.

Syddjurs Municipality is a workplace that prioritizes flexibility and efficiency. There is typically the possibility of 1-2 days of remote work per week, while the rest of the workweek is spent in good company with colleagues at the town hall in Ebeltoft.

There is significant development underway in Syddjurs Municipality, and the City Council has a strong focus on supporting this development, while ensuring it is balanced with nature, the landscape, and local communities. Therefore, over several years extra resources have been allocated to local planning.

The City Council has large ambitions for sustainable urban development. Therefore, we work with a thorough political kick-off of the projects, including completing sustainability forms, preparing starter statements and project descriptions from developers. Citizen involvement is highly prioritized in all planning processes, and you must therefore be keen to work in an environment where both the City Council and the citizens of Syddjurs Municipality are active participants in the development of future projects.

Who are we?

The Department of Planning and Development will consist of 18 permanent employees with diverse professional backgrounds. We handle a wide range of tasks within physical planning, including municipal planning, structural plans, local plans, and larger urban development projects. But local planning is clearly the task that occupies the most.

With us you will receive clear boundaries to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with your colleagues. We support each other weekly in handling each other’s tasks through joint sparring and knowledge sharing, and we are united in developing the department's working processes and our professional approach to urban development. You can read more about our local planning process on our website.

In daily life you will have a broad contact surface, both internally to the many professional employees in the administration and externally to developers, builders, and citizens. You will have the opportunity to follow and take responsibility for all parts of the planning process, from the initial strategic considerations and dialogue with builders and developers to the final local plan that sets the framework for our physical surroundings.

Profile for the professional coordinator

The professional coordinator has three main functions

• Support the leader, among other things by preparing and participating in the initial meetings with developers as well as distributing and coordinating tasks in the local planning team.
• Ensure that the local planning team works with common professional standards and consistent practice, and hold the weekly planning-technical meetings.
• Ensure good dialogue with the other departments in Culture and Development about existing and changed internal and external consultations as well as procedures.

You are not necessarily executing all responsibilities under points 2 and 3, but you are responsible for ensuring that tasks are solved, and you have mandate to set the professional direction. The direction is typically determined based on dialogue and joint discussions at the planning-technical meetings and in dialogue with the manager.

You may very well have experience with formal or informal leadership, but the most important is that you want to take on the role. You will not have personnel or budget responsibilities.

The position as professional coordinator is expected to fill a large part of a 37-hour week, but you should expect to have some own tasks as project manager on your own plans on par with the department's other employees.

As part of the position you are offered to complete The Public Leadership Education, but in the first instance it will not be a requirement.

There are currently 13 employees in the department who work with local planning. The number varies depending on the tasks and initiatives that the City Council prioritizes.

You ideally have

• a relevant education, e.g. land surveyor, engineer, architect or similar, as well as solid experience with local planning.
• knowledge of planning act provisions and an understanding of the interaction between law and planning.
• experience with local planning processes, including environmental assessment, citizen involvement, and dialogue with builders and developers.
• a flair for structure, coordination, and systematic work.

It is an advantage if you

• are used to working in Plandata.dk.
• are familiar with IT systems such as InDesign and AutoCAD.
• have knowledge of GIS.
• have good knowledge of environmental assessment processes.

We would like you to be as a person and colleague

• good at communicating and collaborating with both internal and external partners.
• thrives in a changing daily life, where you as a coordinator must balance supporting the department's overall task solving and your own projects.
• have the ability to make decisions based on dialogue and joint professional discussions.
• have the ability and willingness to collaborate with and serve various stakeholders, including citizens, companies, authorities, and colleagues across the organization, so that holistic solutions and high-quality urban development are created.
• be process- and solution-oriented.
• be proactive and eager to contribute with new perspectives and ideas.
• be able to work independently, in a structured and targeted manner.
• have good written and oral communication skills.
• be flexible and good at planning and prioritizing your work time.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the rules of New Salary

You must be able to fill a 37-hour position.

We expect that you work according to Syddjurs Municipality's Collaboration Framework .

Want to know more

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Christine Vistoft Rasmussen (2467 5639), Louise Porsgaard Olesen (2128 7619), Josefine Vintov (2028 9021) or

Head of Planning and Development Rikke Stæhr Jensen (2113 2922).

Application deadline: 9 November 2026

The first interview is expected to be conducted on Thursday 20 November 2026, with the aim of starting on 1 January 2027 or earlier.

In exceptional cases there may be a need for an extra interview, which will take place on Thursday 25 November.

Syddjurs Municipality encourages everyone to apply for the position regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, disability, etc.

Syddjurs Municipality uses digital recruitment, see available positions at www.syddjurs.dk/job

We are the largest workplace in Syddjurs with about 3,200 employees. Employees who every day go to work to help and support the municipality's residents. Through dialogue with businesses, users and residents, we ensure shared responsibility for the Municipality's development.

We have a Collaboration Framework based on five guiding principles; Conversations , Community, Initiative, Responsibility and Development.

See glimpses of our collaboration across our workplaces here

You can read more about our collaboration framework via the following link Collaboration Framework .

Syddjurs Municipality has around 44,000 inhabitants, five main towns and a large hinterland with many villages. We are a Municipality in development and every year many families choose to move here. Our strengths are active citizens, many village communities, an outstanding nature and proximity to the big city Aarhus. We are an active part of development in the Central Jutland region, including Business Region Aarhus, which is a community among the 12 East Jutland Municipalities totaling one million East Danes, half a million jobs and the country’s largest growth area outside the capital region.