Head of the Daycare Services Area for Albertslund Municipality

As head of the day care area, you will play a central role in the continued development of the quality of the day care services and in expanding capacity in line with the city's growth. We are looking for a leader who can create direction, coherence and followership across the area. A leader who has an in-depth knowledge of the day care area and can translate ambitions and decisions into meaningful practice for children, families, employees and leaders.

Albertslund is a green municipality with big ambitions. We are proud of our municipality and strive in our tasks and efforts for citizens, associations and businesses. We are one municipality and one organization. We have engaged and capable employees and a collaborative culture that crosses areas and levels. This makes Albertslund Municipality a good place to work.

Who we are in Daycare & School

As a leader you will be responsible for developing Albertslund Municipality's day care area in close interaction with daycare leaders, the administration and the political level.

Albertslund has high ambitions for the day care area. The Strengthened General program sets a clear direction with a focus on high quality in the pedagogical learning environments, children's linguistic development, participation opportunities for all children, strong communities and smooth transitions between day care and school. At the same time, the area is faced with the implementation of a new day care policy for 2027-30, which will form the basis for the coming years' development.

The coming years are also expected to bring more residents and more families with children to Albertslund, which requires both capacity and long-term planning in the day care area. As a leader you will play a central role in ensuring that the day care area develops in step with the city's growth through the development of both existing and new day care facilities.

Access to educated pedagogical staff is crucial for the quality of the day care services. As a leader you will therefore work to create attractive workplaces and strong professional environments that can attract and retain employees across the day care area.

Through leadership and sparring with the area's day care leaders you will help ensure that national, municipal and administrative decisions are translated into strong pedagogical practice. You will also support the leaders in creating good workplaces, high professional quality and sustainable operations with sound financial management and a focus on data and results.

To succeed, it is essential that you can create coherence between the overarching direction and the local reality in the day care centers. As the area leader you must create followership around common goals while supporting leaders with diverse experiences and strengths through visible, trust-based and presence-based leadership.

Albertslund's day care area includes both integrated day care institutions, the Day Care Service (Dagplejen) and Børnehuset Baunegård, which houses both a kindergarten, after-school care and a club.

What we expect from our new leader of the day care area

We are looking for a leader with professional ambitions, strong leadership skills and empathy. It is important that you have good knowledge of the operation and development of day care and can translate this understanding into direction, prioritization and administrative support in everyday work.

You must be able to create direction in an area with high ambitions and many development tasks while also being a present manager for the municipality's day care leaders and an administrative team with responsibility for, among other things, space allocation and bookkeeping.

We expect that you

• translate the municipality's ambitions, including the Strengthened General, into concrete priorities and actions close to the pedagogical practice and create overview and prioritization in an area with many simultaneous tasks and development initiatives.
• create followership around common goals and support a strong management community, where the leaders develop both their own day care houses and the day care area as a whole
• work analytically to translate knowledge about day care quality, including learning from pedagogical inspections, into professional development and strong pedagogical learning environments for the children
• contribute to attractive workplaces and strong professional environments that can attract and retain educated pedagogical staff
• ensure good conditions for effective day care administration with high professional quality and reliable operational task solving
• think and act in a holistic way and contribute to coherence across day care, schools, practice support and the administration with an eye for common solutions and shared responsibility for all children and youth.

What we offer

• managerial responsibility for 13 leaders and the opportunity to further develop a strong leadership community characterized by professionalism, sparring, reflection and shared responsibility for developing the day care area.
• a central role in the continued development of Strengthened General and the implementation of Albertslund Municipality's new day care policy 2027-30.
• responsibility for leading a team of four administrative staff and the continued development of a service-oriented and reliable support for the day care area.
• a close collaboration in the leadership team in Daycare & School, where you together with the department head, the deputy head, a unit leader and a staff head contribute to the joint leadership and development of Daycare & School.
• an organization with high ambitions for leadership and a focus on leadership sparring, leadership development and strong leadership communities.

Workplace: Albertslund Town Hall, Nordmarks Allé 1, 2620 Albertslund

Salary placement is determined 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 condition of your employment in Albertslund Municipality that you have a valid work and residence permit. When employed, criminal records and child protection records will be sought.

Albertslund Municipality has a smoke-free working time policy.

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 a 37-hour basis.

There is an application deadline on Sunday, 18 October 2026 at 23.59.

We expect to conduct interviews on Thursday 22 October and Wednesday 28 October.

For more information you can contact

Head of Department for Daycare and School Rikke Skovgaard Andersen

Phone: 93564389

Email: [email protected]

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, which children and adults cycle to and from on the city's many kilometers of bike lanes, separated from cars on the roads.

There is an S-train right at the door and several super cycling paths, including between Albertslund and Vesterport in the heart of Copenhagen. In addition, the light rail creates 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 we share the task for citizens, associations and businesses. You can meet some of our capable employees at www.albertslund.dk/indefra and get a sense of the breadth of areas of work, tasks and professional fields in Albertslund Municipality.

In Albertslund Municipality there is room to grow and good development opportunities - we look forward to hearing from you.

Department: Daycare and School

Application deadline: 18 October 2026

Location: Denmark