Office Manager for Jura

Is employment law your core expertise? Can you lead a strong legal professional team? Can you move between operations and development? Do you have extensive knowledge of the public collective agreement system?

If you can say yes – then the Economics and Personnel Agency seeks a legally strong head of office for the agency's personnel lawyers and collective agreement consultants. The position is located in the Unit for Personnel & Law.

The unit's tasks include

• Personnel cases, advice and leadership coaching for the Self-Government and underlying units
• Collective bargaining negotiations, interpretation and implementation
• Training in employment law and preparation of guidelines
• Support for related units' work

Currently four lawyers and one consultant work to perform these tasks. They will all report to you.

Your tasks as head of office will include

• Personnel management for staff lawyers and collective agreement consultants, including allocation, handling and prioritization of cases.
• Coordinate, optimize and provide system support for workflows internally in the unit and to units in the Self-Government and municipalities
• Management information related to the unit
• Close coordination with the head of office for personnel consultants in the Unit for Personnel & Law

We would like you to have the following professional background

• Qualified Cand.jur/Cand.merc.jur or equivalent level with a strong numerical understanding
• Documented leadership experience
• Negotiation experience and knowledge of the Economics and Personnel Agency's role
• Several years' experience in individual and collective employment law
• Several years' experience in public administration, preferably in the Self-Government
• Teaching experience

Additionally, we would like your personal qualities to preferably cover

• Trustworthy, outgoing and motivating
• Proactive, persevering and driving processes
• Good collaboration skills and a service mindset from a customer perspective
• Flexible and able to navigate a cross-functional organization with different cultures and a changing daily life
• Strong knowledge of Greenlandic culture and Greenlandic society

We offer

• Professionally engaged colleagues
• A close sparring environment with other leadership colleagues in the HR department
• Personal development tailored to you in the position

Application deadline and start

The application deadline is 30 October 2026 at 12:00.

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact HR and Negotiations Manager Frederik G. Schmidt via [email protected] or tel. +299 34 6681

Start date will be 1 December 2026 or by agreement.

Employment terms

The position is currently salary-fixed corresponding to 36. The salary with fixed salary elements and its own contribution to pension in LR 36 amounts as of 1 April 2026 to a monthly amount of DKK 57,531 and annually DKK 690,372.

In principle, employment under collective agreement terms will apply; where the applicant may already be a civil servant under the Public Service Act for Greenland, employment may be under civil servant terms.

Salary and employment terms, including entitlement to travel on appointment and to severance and household relocation, in accordance with the collective agreement applicable at the time of commencement between the Greenland Self-Government and the relevant negotiating party. Civil servants in the state and employees under several AC agreements, including the agreement between DJØF and the Ministry of Finance, have the right to unpaid leave in connection with employment under the Greenland Self-Government.

The Ministry of the Interior has also urged municipalities and regions to show flexibility toward applications for unpaid leave when employed under the Greenland Self-Government. Provisions on unpaid leave also cover spouses/partners of persons employed under the Greenland Self-Government.

The working hours are in principle 40 hours per week, and the position is associated with a standby obligation of 320 annually and 80 per quarter, and the provisions on compensation for lost days off do not apply.

Department: Economics and Personnel Agency

Application deadline: 30 October 2026

Location: Qatserisut, 3900, Nuuk, Greenland