Head of sport-social initiatives and administrative collaboration in the Culture, Leisure and Citizen Services Administration

Are you motivated by leadership and interaction with professionally strong employees in a development-oriented department? Do you burn to give even more children, youths and adults an active leisure and association life? Does it come naturally to you to work across professional areas and departments with a basis in positive communities in the sports, culture and leisure area? Then you may be our new leader in Sports Development.

We are seeking a leader to strengthen sports participation and make even more residents of Copenhagen physically active in association life and positive communities.

About the position

You will become the leader of 18 professionally strong and engaged development consultants as well as 12 student assistants. Together with the head of sports and the head of Sports Strategy and Analysis you form a leadership group in a department with 43 employees, which is part of Sports, Folk Education and Planning in the Culture, Leisure and Citizens Service Administration.

You will have the managerial responsibility for our sports-social initiatives, which share the common purpose of ensuring that disadvantaged target groups have the opportunity for an active sports, club and leisure life. The core elements of the sports-social initiatives are membership subsidies, Holiday Camps, leisure guides and social partnerships, while other projects and initiatives are also integrated in the department.

Characteristic of Sports Development is that we succeed together with the sports, leisure and culture life and in collaboration with health, employment and social areas and with schools, KKFOs, leisure clubs and youth education institutions. It is not a prerequisite that you are the academic expert, but you must be able to support and see potential in processes and employees where Sports Development can make the greatest difference. You provide an accessible and trust-based personnel leadership and an overall leadership view that ensures coordination between many actors and professional groups.

We attach importance to you having the desire and courage to lead both important development agendas and the secure operation of essential sports initiatives in Copenhagen. You will lead an ambitious department with an informal tone, cross-collaboration, and employees who support each other. There is also room for you, and for what you bring – as a person and as a leader.

About you

It is important that you possess several of the following qualities

• have leadership experience and a passion for people management – both as a whole group and based on each individual's professionalism, potentials and experiences
• can positively bring sports, leisure and culture competencies into play and understand and work with other professional areas and leaders across the administrative areas
• can formulate, drive and develop initiatives and projects, which can get more people to become sport-active, together with employees and external partners
• have an eye for that political and administrative strategies hang together from top to bottom in the organisation
• are proactive, outgoing and curious about partners and the target groups
• work in a structured way and are used to financial responsibility, project management, personnel administrative tasks etc. being part of the leadership task

About Sports Development

Sports Development is responsible for developing sport in Copenhagen. We work to make more Copenhageners sport-active through collaborations and partnerships with districts, associations, other administrative departments, self-organized sports communities, sports organizations, etc.

Sports Development is also home to work with volunteering, association development, the coordinating safety work, talent and elite sports, event area and to create coherence between sports and leisure activities and facilities and city development. Our work is based on the latest knowledge, and we broadly involve in acknowledgment that we cannot make a significant difference alone.

Employment conditions

Salary and terms of employment according to applicable collective agreement and within the framework of local pay formation. The position is full-time and desired to be filled from January 1, 2027.

Since the work involves collaboration with associations and volunteers, parts of the work will take place outside normal working hours. The primary workplace is Sports Development, Culture and Leisure and Citizens Service Administration in Nyropsgade, Copenhagen V.

We will obtain a child certificate and references in connection with the employment.

Further information

If you want to know more about the position, you can contact sports chief Thomas Bach at 22 78 96 69.

Apply via the link no later than Thursday 12 November 2026

First round of interviews will be held on 19 November 2026 and a potential second round on 25 November.

Culture, Leisure and Citizens Service Administration

In the Culture, Leisure and Citizens Service Administration we work every day to create good frameworks for culture and leisure life in the city, and to provide Copenhageners and city guests with professional and approachable service. From libraries, cultural houses and museums to sports facilities, citizen services and the city's green spaces – we create frameworks for communities where Copenhageners can meet and express themselves. Our joint goal is to make Copenhagen a good place to live, meet and engage.