Leader for an ambitious and well-functioning secretariat

Leader of an ambitious and well-functioning secretariat at the country's perhaps most beautiful town hall

Are you into teamwork – both as a coach for professionally engaged employees and as a team player in a leadership group? Do you have the ability to create structure and direction for a department while keeping an eye on coherence across? Can you both stay on track and switch gears? Then you now have the opportunity to become the leader in Policy and Development in an ambitious and well-functioning secretariat.

About the job

The Secretariat for Social, Health & Care in Viborg Municipality consists of two departments; Policy and Development and Administration. We need a new leader in Policy and Development.

You will be the nearest manager for 21 skilled and engaged employees. They handle a variety of tasks and development within welfare technology and digitisation, system administration, quality, education as well as coordination of the brain injury area.

Your task includes, among other things, setting frameworks and direction, prioritising resources, challenging and supporting each employee and aligning expectations for tasks with a view to the overall task execution in the Secretariat. This is done in close dialogue with the leadership team in the Secretariat and those for whom we solve tasks.

You will share, together with the secretariat chief and the two department heads, a common responsibility for the management tasks in the Secretariat and will report to the head of Department in Policy and Development.

Your day will include everything from 1:1 conversations with employees, recruitment interviews and preparation of various meetings to expectation alignment with the managers we support and participation in the Secretariat’s budget follow-up meetings.

About you

We expect that you have a relevant university-level education, solid secretariat expertise and preferably management experience.

You are steady in your direction while you are able to navigate a changing everyday life, where we as a matter of course shift gear when tasks call for it. You have experience from a politically governed organisation and preferably from the social, health, care and/or employment areas.

About your competences

• You are a present and clear personnel leader who contributes to delivering results and maintaining a shared culture and a good working environment.
• You are a master of structure, and it comes naturally to you to follow up.
• You can ignite a spark and extinguish a fire.
• You achieve results through and in collaboration with others.
• You make others look good and put yourself at stake, without putting yourself in the center.
• You have strong relational and communicative competencies that are put to use in daily collaboration.
• You have a good sense of humor.

About us

About the employees

We are ambitious, professionally competent and service-minded. We take pride in finding solutions and making things happen. We largely rely on professional sparring with each other, both in established communities and in daily life over the shelves. The culture is characterized by helpfulness, engagement and willingness to collaborate.

About the leadership team

We are an ambitious, solution-focused and strongly value-guided leadership team that takes pride in supporting others and creating the best conditions for our employees to perform and thrive. We insist on standing together in all contexts where possible and meaningful, and we consciously use each other’s competencies. We are each other’s lifeline and close and confidential sparring partners, and we are continually curious about our own practice. We believe the best decisions are the ones made with involvement and in respect for the diversity that characterises our organisation.

About the Secretariat for Social, Health & Care

The Secretariat is part of the directorate area for Social, Health & Care, which is organised into three professional areas and a secretariat. The management group consists of a director, an administrator of care, a health chief, a social chief and a secretary chief.

The Secretariat solves tasks for Social, Health & Care as well as the employment area. Our vision is to make life easier for those we are here for. Our mission is to support decision-making, action and development power across the organisation. There are 67 employees in the Secretariat, of which 44 are in Policy and Development.

About leadership in Viborg Municipality

As a leader in Viborg Municipality you become part of a large and diverse, politically governed organisation, where leadership is built on our personnel policy values – Diversity, Decency, Competence = MOD, Viborg Municipality’s leadership framework and the MED agreement. You can read more about the personnel policy values, leadership framework and the MED agreement on viborg.dk .

Viborg Municipality aims to create more coherence and cohesion for citizens. Therefore the council has adopted a coherence model , which forms the basis for the political governance of the municipality and sets goals that create value for citizens.

Salary and employment

Salary is set on the basis of the applicable collective agreement and a concrete assessment of your education, your documented professional experience, and your professional and personal qualifications.

Before employment and entering into the salary agreement you have the possibility to receive information about the starting salary in the specific position; Viborg Municipality uses objective and gender-neutral criteria for salary setting in accordance with the rules on equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and in accordance with the relevant collective agreement. You can find information about salary at: KRL .

Prior to final employment a criminal record check will be obtained.

Interviews

We will hold the first interview round on Monday, 30 November 2026 and the second interview round on Thursday, 10 December 2026. Candidates who proceed to the second interview will have a personality profile prepared before the second interview. You should set aside time for a discussion about your profile on 2 December 2026, by arrangement.

More about the job

Read more about the job in the attached job and competency profile .

If you have questions about the leadership role, you are welcome to contact Gitte Bundgaard, head of Secretariat in Social, Health & Care at tel. 25 64 93 73 or Anne Kallestrup, department head in the Secretariat, Social, Health & Care at tel. 87 87 41 05.