Head of Department with expertise in special education sought for Brøndagerskolen

Do you have a teaching or pedagogical background, experience with leadership and a desire to help develop a highly specialized school offering for children and young people with autism? Do you thrive with both staff leadership, professional development and daily operations? Then the position as department head at Brøndagerskolen might be for you.

About Albertslund Municipality

Albertslund is a green municipality with big ambitions. We are proud of our municipality and take care in our tasks and efforts for citizens, associations and businesses. We are one municipality and one organization. We have engaged and skilled employees as well as a collaboration culture that crosses areas and levels. That makes Albertslund Municipality a good place to work.

Right now we are seeking a department head for Brøndagerskolen.

About the job and Brøndagerskolen

Brøndagerskolen is a holistic offering for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders. We have 99 students and about 130 employees distributed across school and after-school services.

Our teachers, pedagogues and assistants work in fixed cross-disciplinary teams around smaller student groups. We base our approach on the individual student’s resources, potentials and development opportunities, and we work with a strength-based view of children, where our fundamental understanding is that children do the right thing if they can.

You will be part of a management team consisting of the school principal, deputy principal and three department heads. We are a school in ongoing development and work purposefully to strengthen both professional quality, organization and collaboration for the benefit of the students’ learning, well-being and development.

As department head you will have the daily management responsibility for about four cross-disciplinary teams. You will support staff professional development, ensure quality in task execution and contribute to creating clear frameworks and direction in everyday life.

Your tasks will include, among others, to

• Lead and develop staff closely
• Develop and support the special education and didactic development and direction.
• Ensure well-being and good collaborative relations between staff, students and parents
• Contribute to strong interdisciplinary collaboration
• Actively participate in the school’s development and change processes
• Manage administrative and operational tasks such as timetable planning, substitute coverage and student transportation
• Contribute to the development of Brøndagerskolen’s overall strategic direction.

We are looking for a leader who

• Has a teaching or pedagogical education
• Has experience with leadership, preferably from a special school or similar area
• Has knowledge of autism and special pedagogical interventions
• Thrives with administrative, strategic and pedagogical tasks
• Has a diploma in leadership or an equivalent leadership qualification
• Can translate professional knowledge into action and development in practice
• Communicates clearly and respectfully
• Can create trust, followership and strong working communities
• Thrives in a complex everyday life with many collaboration interfaces
• Can create overview, direction and momentum, even when many tasks are in play at the same time.

We value that you are proactive, relationally strong and see collaboration as a prerequisite for good leadership. You actively contribute to joint solutions and take responsibility for both your own area and the school’s overall development.

We offer

• A meaningful leadership position with a high degree of independent responsibility for the children’s learning and staff’s professional development.
• Opportunity to influence the development of one of the country’s largest special schools in the autism field
• An engaged and professionally strong staff community
• A cross-disciplinary environment with psychologists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and educational mentors
• An leadership team with a high degree of collaboration, sparring and shared responsibility
• Good opportunities for both professional and personal development.

Salary and employment terms

The workplace is Brøndagerskolen, Nordmarks Allé 20, 2620 Albertslund.

Salary placement occurs after negotiation between the municipality and the negotiating organization.

It is part of Albertslund Municipality’s recruitment policy to promote diversity and equality.

It is a prerequisite for your employment with Albertslund Municipality that you have a valid work and residence permit.

A satisfactory child and criminal record check is a prerequisite for employment.

Albertslund Municipality supports fully the full-time effort in accordance with the Tripartite Agreement on Wages and Working Conditions, and the municipality therefore hires predominantly on 37 hours.

Application deadline: Monday November 16, 2026.

We expect to hold the first interview on Friday November 20, 2026 and the second interview on Thursday November 26, 2026.

Albertslund Municipality has smoke-free working hours.

Contact

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact

School Principal Mette Fabricius Nielsen at phone 24 61 76 72

or

Deputy Principal Maja Larsen at phone 20 54 41 94.

About Albertslund Municipality

Welcome to Albertslund - the sustainable city for children, the green and the communities. Albertslund Municipality has many qualities that create fantastic frameworks for everyday life, both for citizens and employees.

In the middle of nature and with a rich association and cultural life, children and adults cycle to and from daily activities on the city’s many kilometers of cycling paths. There is a commuter train right at the door, several super bike paths and good connections to the entire Copenhagen metropolitan area.

In Albertslund Municipality we have the same approach to our tasks as we would wish to experience as citizens. We are very different, but united in the task. At www.albertslund.dk/indefra you can meet some of our employees and get a sense of the breadth of areas of work and professional disciplines in the municipality.

We look forward to hearing from you.