Lawyer for tasks related to agricultural subsidy schemes

Do you want to play a central role in the green transition of Danish agriculture? Do you want to help implement the new subsidy schemes under the agricultural reform and work in the exciting field where law meets agricultural practice? And do you want to be the legal sparring partner for caseworkers, specialists and management? Then maybe you are what we are missing in Team Professional Support!

Willingness to navigate the tension between rules and reality

As a lawyer in the Team Professional Support within the Agricultural Support & Ecology unit, you will be a key person in ensuring correct and efficient payment of EU subsidies. Your primary tasks will be to advise caseworkers in the assessment of complex cases, answer inquiries from consultants and farmers, and ensure a consistent thread between rules and administration.

In close collaboration with the team’s professionals and the rule unit, you will continually contribute to optimizing the unit’s case processing, so we support the agricultural transition on a solid legal foundation.

You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of subsidy schemes, including area payments, afforestation, bio-schemes, and wetland areas. The work will naturally involve in-depth legal work with both administrative law and EU law.

Your tasks will include

• Legal advice to caseworkers in concrete and complex cases.
• Handling inquiries from farmers and consultants.
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration across the unit and the agency.
• Legal sparring in connection with audits, decision basis and legal notes.
• Diverse ad hoc tasks in a dynamic daily life.

We offer

A flexible position with great influence on your own workday and excellent opportunities for professional and personal development. You will become part of a dedicated team with many different professional backgrounds, where you will have close sparring partners in the form of twoExperienced lawyers. We place a strong emphasis on social and professional community with a strong focus on knowledge sharing and good camaraderie.

You will receive thorough training so you are well equipped to handle your tasks independently.

Your profile

We imagine you have a Master of Laws (cand.jur.). You may be newly graduated, as we value your potential and your desire to learn. Experience with the agricultural sector is not a requirement, but it is an advantage. It is also an advantage if you have knowledge of administrative law and EU law.

As a person you are service-minded and easily able to build relationships across teams, units and management levels. You have strong communication skills, both written and spoken, and you can keep an overview when the pace increases. We are looking for you who take initiative and have the courage to question existing systems and case-handling processes, so we can improve together.

Agricultural Support & Ecology, Team Professional Support

Team Professional Support is located in the Agricultural Support & Ecology unit, which consists of about 170 action-oriented employees. The unit administers subsidy schemes and payments to farming worth more than DKK 6 billion a year and processes over 37,000 applications each year.

You will get a workplace with a work culture where responsibility, good humor and openness are highly valued. We have a busy daily life, but we prioritise making it fun and pleasant to go to work as well.

Employment conditions

You will be employed as a statutory clerk in accordance with the current collective agreement for academics in the state. There is the possibility to negotiate allowances based on qualifications.

The employment domain is the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare with the associated institutions. The work site is the Agency for Green Land Reallocation and Water Environment, Augustenborg Castle 3, 6440 Augustenborg.

This is a full-time position, to be filled as soon as possible and no later than 1 February 2027.

Contact

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact acting team leader Katrine Kjær Suurballe at telephone 24 67 04 54.

You can read about the Agency for Green Land Reallocation and Water Environment - SGAV here.

Application

Apply for the position by sending an application including CV, diploma and any references online in our recruitment system (click on “Søg stilling”) no later than Sunday 6 December 2026. .

We expect to conduct recruitment interviews on 11 December 2026 in Augustenborg.