HR business partner with strong HR expertise and business acumen

Can you translate HR professionalism, organizational understanding, and data into advice that makes a difference for managers and their task execution? Are you motivated to be an proactive sparring partner who supports both managers and management teams in creating results and developing the organization? Then you may be our new HR business partner at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency is undergoing significant organizational changes, and with our strategy A Proactive Environmental Protection Agency we have high ambitions for leadership, efficiency and development of the organization. The strategy must be translated into concrete goals, priorities and improvements in daily task execution.

HR plays an important role in supporting that development. We must help managers and management teams create coherence between strategy, tasks, employees and results. It requires an HR function that understands the business, works proactively and uses professionalism and data to qualify managers’ considerations and decisions.

Therefore, we are looking for an experienced HR business partner who can combine solid HR professionalism with a good understanding of the organization’s tasks, challenges and strategic goals.

You will become a close sparring partner for managers and management teams

As an HR business partner you will independently be responsible for HR support for managers and executives in one or more areas of the Environmental Protection Agency. You will be a regular sparring partner for office heads, team leaders and functional leaders and must build knowledge of their tasks, goals and leadership challenges.

We expect you to be close to the business, take the initiative to engage in dialogue and help the managers with HR-related challenges and opportunities. This can involve recruitment, sick leave, competence development, collaboration and organizational changes.

You also play an important role in supporting management teams in their joint leadership task. You contribute with HR professional perspectives and sparring on how the office’s goals and strategic priorities relate to leadership, organization, collaboration and the development of employees and competencies.

You should be able to ask good questions, challenge familiar perspectives, and contribute with knowledge and proposals that help managers make qualified decisions.

You will be responsible for supporting your own areas, which may be distributed across several of the Environmental Protection Agency’s locations. Therefore, an important part of the job is to be visible and physically present with the managers and management teams you collaborate with. You must thrive working across areas of expertise and geographic distances and be good at building strong collaborative relationships.

You work with both HR advisory and strategic management support

You will have a varied portfolio of tasks, where daily HR advisory and more long-term support for management and organizational development go hand in hand.

Your main tasks will be

• You support managers in, among other things, recruitment, salary negotiations, sickness absence, retention, employee development and other HR issues. You contribute with professional advice and sparring on possible actions and support managers in their personnel management. You work closely with our employment lawyer and the rest of the team.
• You spar with managers and management teams on how strategic goals and priorities impact their leadership task. You contribute HR professional perspectives on, among other things, organization, collaboration and competencies.
• You use data on, for example, sickness absence and accrued leave to create insights and qualify dialogue with the managers. You help identify relevant points of attention and possible actions that managers can include in their priorities and decisions.
• You are a sparring partner for managers and management teams in connection with organizational changes. You contribute to ensuring that HR perspectives are considered in both development and stable operations.
• You capture needs and experiences across your areas, bring knowledge and perspectives back to HR and help develop shared solutions, processes and coherent HR support.

You will work closely with our HR support team, which supports the administrative processes, and with colleagues in, among other things, employment law, personnel administration and leadership and organizational development.

We have an ambition that HR business partners spend a substantial part of their time on direct leader dialogue, advisory and sparring. Therefore, we are also working to create a clear division of labor and efficient administrative processes so that our total HR resources are used as effectively as possible.

You have strong HR professionalism and understand the reality of leaders

We are looking for an experienced HR profile with a solid professional foundation and several years of experience with HR advisory to managers, preferably from the state or another politically led organization.

You have broad knowledge of the HR area and can translate your professional knowledge into concrete and usable solutions. At the same time, you are curious about the business and interested in how HR can support the organization’s goals and results.

We particularly emphasize that you

• Have broad experience with HR advisory and a good knowledge of central HR processes and the employee domain.
• Can understand different areas’ tasks and challenges and translate that understanding into relevant leadership sparring.
• Have experience in supporting managers and preferably management teams in work with leadership, collaboration and organizational development.
• Have an eye for the connection between strategy, goals, competencies and organizational development.
• Can use HR data and management information to create insights and qualify dialogue with the managers.
• Are proactive, initiativeminded and good at building trustful relationships, while also being willing to ask challenging questions and contribute with new perspectives.
• Work in a structured manner, prioritize your tasks and take responsibility for quality and progress in your own deliveries and in the partner team as a whole.

You must be able to move naturally between concrete HR cases and more development-oriented tasks. You are good at listening, asking the right questions and finding solutions that are both professionally sound and workable in practice.

We do not expect you to be a specialist in employment law, all HR disciplines or digital analytical tools. Instead you should have a solid HR professional foundation, be able to use available management information and know when to involve specialists.

You have a relevant academic master's degree, for example cand.merc. focusing on HR or organization, cand.soc. in Human Resource Management, cand.scient.adm., cand.psych. or another relevant master’s degree.

You will become part of an HR function with high ambitions

HR is part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s staff and supports the agency’s leaders and organization with HR advisory, personnel administration, leadership development and organizational development.

You will become part of our HR partner team with four HR business partners and three employees in the HR support team. You report to our upcoming team leader for the HR partner team.

We are in the process of developing our HR partner model, and you will have good opportunities to influence how we work with business-oriented HR advisory, data and leadership support.

You will become part of a professionally strong HR environment, where we collaborate across functions and have ambitions to develop a more coherent, efficient and proactive HR support.

You get an independent role with great responsibility, opportunities for professional development and close contact with leaders in an organization with important societal tasks.

Salaries and employment terms

Salaries and employment terms are in accordance with the applicable agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a number of academic organizations for academics in the state (Academic Agreement).

The employment area is the Ministry of Environment with its associated institutions.

The workplace is in Odense, Lerchesgade 35. The position requires regular presence at the Environmental Protection Agency’s other locations.

Start date: February 1, 2027.

The application deadline is November 29, 2026.

We expect to conduct the first interview round on December 2, 2026 and the second interview round on December 11, 2026. There will be testing between the two interview rounds.

If you have questions about the position, please contact HR Manager Trine Lumbye at tel. 21 17 32 64.