IT University seeks leader for the Education Team

Education is a significant part of the path to growth for Denmark and the rest of the world. IT University (ITU) contributes by offering educations that make Denmark unusually skilled at creating value with IT.

Will you work with both operations and development at a university where education has a very central role, and where we are close to teachers and students? Are you a skilled communicator and authentic leader who can involve, delegate, motivate and make decisions? You will play a central role in the development of ITU's education area and administrative support in a period of extensive reforms.

About the position

Head of Education Team

You will be the line manager for 10 experienced employees who work with

• educational coordination, i.e. operations, education development and management support to ITU's education leaders (who are researchers/teachers).
• management support for the Head of Education (equivalent to a pro-dean for education at other universities)
• administration of staffing processes and hiring of Teaching Assistants.
• industry collaboration, which includes our IT Match Making event.

The main goals for the coming years

• implementation of the bachelor reform which leads to more and new types of education, more flexibility for students, new forms of collaboration with industry, but also increased complexity in educational leadership and administration.
• development of processes, standards and increased digitization with a focus on users.

Your profile

• experience with personnel management, including setting direction, coordinating, involving, prioritizing and engaging.
• solid experience with educational administration from a higher education institution and thrives in an administrative university context where political reforms must be translated into practice.
• you create involvement and knowledge sharing across disciplines and translate complex issues into clear decisions and actions.
• can communicate clearly and empathetically and have strong written communication skills in both Danish and English.
• is systematic, structured and can maintain calm and overview.
• a master's degree

Areas of responsibility

• Daily people management, focusing on direction, framework, sparring, feedback, well-being and development
• Ensure user-friendly and documented processes with focus on students, teachers and administration
• Manage and execute the ongoing planning, coordination, prioritization and development of tasks in your team
• Handling of hires, performance dialogues (MUS) and ongoing 1:1s
• Lead and carry out cross-cutting tasks and projects in the department and the rest of the organization

The Department

You report directly to the Study Director, who is a part of University Management. We are expanding from 3 to 5 line managers to ensure professional and close leadership. Your management colleagues are the heads of 1) Examinations, case processing, LifeLongLearning, exchange etc. 2) Study guidance and study support, 3) Learning unit, quality and PhD, as well as 4) digitization, admissions and study communication (also a new position).

Together with the Study Director, the five line managers form the department's management team, where we have daily close collaboration, ongoing sparring and a focus on leadership development.

We lead through trust, involvement and professional sparring. We expect you to create clear direction while giving employees responsibility and freedom to solve tasks.

In the department (Student Affairs and Programmes) there are about 50 engaged employees who support the university's management, education, students and teachers. IT University is continuously evolving, which is why roles and tasks are continually changing. Our students and teachers come from all over the world and much of the daily communication therefore takes place in English.

IT University offers

ITU offers an exciting and versatile job in an international environment with skilled staff and good colleagues. We have an open and informal tone and a varied daily life.

The working hours are 37 hours per week. We offer flextime, which provides good opportunities to make the interplay between work and leisure time function optimally.

Employment terms

You are employed as a chief consultant with personnel management in accordance with the state collective agreement. The appointment is made in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Taxation and the relevant organization.

There will be the possibility to negotiate individual supplements depending on your qualifications.

The position is desired to be filled no later than 1 January 2026.

Further information

You are welcome to contact Study Director, Lene Rehder, tel. 5164 3718 or email [email protected], if you would like further information about the position. (reachable due to vacation only from 19 October).

Application procedure

You can only apply for the position through our e-recruitment system. Apply by clicking the "Search for the position" button at the bottom of the job advertisement on our website: http://www.itu.dk/stillinger.

The application deadline is 25 October 2026 at 12:00.

We will hold 1st round interviews on 3, 4 and 6 November and 2nd round interviews on 10, 11 or 13 November. IT University uses a personality test in connection with our recruitment process.

At IT University we have an international environment and view diversity as a valuable resource. We place great emphasis on supporting an inclusive working environment for all our employees and therefore encourage all qualified applicants regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnicity to apply for the position.

Since ITU conducts research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, an open source background check may be performed on qualified candidates for the position.

Application deadline: Oct. 25, 2026

Department: Rued Langgaards Vej 7 2300 Copenhagen S

Location: Student Affairs and Programmes