Consultant with experience in the social work field is sought for the Office for Crime Prevention in Denmark's Prisons, Prison Sector East

Denmark's Prisons are in the midst of implementing a comprehensive sentencing reform with a significant strengthening of the crime prevention area. The reform sets high demands for quality, consistency and effectiveness in the initiatives that are to create lasting and positive changes for inmates.

The Office for Crime Prevention is seeking a consultant with solid social work insight, strategic understanding, and the ability to navigate confidently in a political organization. You are motivated by translating political decisions into concrete practice and creating measurable results in close cooperation with prisons and remand centers in Prison Circle East.

The Office for Crime Prevention's main task is to contribute to our success in translating the strategic and professional goals by assisting with development, support, coordination and follow-up on the crime-prevention initiatives carried out in the institutions in Prison Circle East. Furthermore, the office's task is to support the central level as relevant.

The Office for Crime Prevention covers a wide range of tasks including social work interventions, psychosocial interventions, substance abuse treatment, health (somatic and psychiatric), suicide prevention, sex offenders, education and employment, cognitive skill training, the youth area, close and broad cross-sector collaboration, cooperation with civil society, relatives engagement and much more.

The office consists of five teams, four assistant directors and a head of office, who value close interdisciplinary collaboration.

About the position and tasks

You will join the Team for Authority Cooperation and Client Pathways. As a consultant, your main task is to translate the strategic and professional goals within your areas of expertise in close interaction with prisons and remand centers, partners and the Agency of Denmark's Prisons. You will regularly participate in cross-Denmark Prisons working groups and will thus have a joint task community and collaboration with your colleagues in the Office for Crime Prevention, the institutions, Prison Circle West and the Agency of Denmark's Prisons.

Your main tasks will consist of, that

• Assist with development, support, coordination and follow-up.
• Ensure high professional quality in task execution, including case processing and action plan work at the sites, through inclusive and developmental work processes.
• Prepare professional standards, guidelines, templates etc.
• Follow up on progress and results
• Prepare memos, consultation responses, project descriptions etc.
• Contribute to a good working environment with well-being and strong cross-disciplinary collaboration with sparring and feedback both internally and externally.

About you

You must be strong professionally within the field, just as you must master the intersection between practice and the civil service role. You are used to acting at multiple levels and are expected to have the abilities personally as well as professionally to implement and follow up on the messages that come from political and administrative sides.

You should also be able to handle a variety of tasks within planning, development, follow-up and communication, and facilitating change processes and professional development programs for groups is an important competence. To succeed in the role, you must also be able to build trusting relationships across professional disciplines with your numerous partners, including prison administrations and staff as well as the central level.

We would like you to have professionally

• Social work background such as social worker or a social science master's degree
• Knowledge and practical experience from Denmark's Prisons, similar Agencies, the municipal sector or similar
• Experience working in a politically governed organization
• Strong analytical skills
• Good skills in communication and dissemination – both orally and in writing.

We would like you as a person to be

• Proactive and with an eye for development opportunities
• Have good collaboration skills, but also able to work independently
• Able to think across the organization
• Able to work with many different professional groups
• Structured with a good overview of your tasks.

We offer

You will become part of a cross-disciplinary strong environment in the district office. Your colleagues are dedicated employees with a high level of professionalism and competencies within all prison-related areas, and there is an open and humorous working environment. We emphasize that our busy everyday life is followed by a good tone and helpfulness towards each other, and a focus on a good balance between work life and family life for the individual employee.

Salary and terms of employment

The position is a permanent full-time position with an average weekly working time of 37 hours. The position is desired to be filled on 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Employment and remuneration are set in accordance with the relevant applicable collective agreement depending on your educational background in relation to the job content.

If you are already civil servant employed by the state, there will be an opportunity to retain your civil service employment.

Area of employment

is Denmark's Prisons.

Workplace

is the District Office in Prison Circle East, Kirstineberg 4, 2100 Copenhagen Ø.

As the Office for Crime Prevention serves all the district's institutions, you should expect to participate in meetings, etc., across the district's institutions. A company car is provided. It is a requirement that you have a driver's license.

It is a condition of employment that you, in connection with a possible interview, consent to Denmark's Prisons obtaining and assessing information about you from the Central Criminal Register.

Apply for the position

Applications, CV and documentation of education as well as other relevant material must be received in the recruitment system no later than Sunday, 18 October 2026.

We expect to conduct first and second interviews in weeks 43 and 44.

If you are invited for an interview, you must bring identification, e.g. passport or driver's license, to the interview.

Denmark's Prisons sees diversity as a strength and encourages all interested candidates regardless of personal background to apply.

Further information

If you have questions, you are welcome to contact the head of Crime Prevention Julie Bergholt Andersson at phone 7255 4347 or deputy head Louise Schou Hunderup at 72 55 75 40.

About Denmark's Prisons, Prison Circle East

Prison Circle East consists of a district office, open and closed prisons, remand prisons and supervision, as well as ankle bracelet departments, transport and guarding, deportation center and asylum center distributed across Zealand, Bornholm and the Faroe Islands.

In total about 2300 employees.

For further information about Denmark's Prisons, please refer to the website www.danmarksfængsler.dk

Application deadline: Oct 18, 2026

Department: Kristineberg 4 2100 Copenhagen Ø

Location: Capital Region of Denmark