Leadership Development Consultant for Children and Young People, Aarhus Municipality

Do you want to help develop good leadership that supports children and young people’s learning, development and well-being? And are you motivated by working closely with managers on concrete organizational challenges and development needs in e.g. the work environment, staff management, leadership collaboration or the professional leadership of the core task?

So perhaps you are the one we are looking for as a new leadership development consultant in HR and Organization.

Leadership development close to practice

In Children and Young People we want to create opportunities for participation for all children and young people. It requires good leadership and strong collaboration across the organization. In HR and Organization we have a special responsibility to support and develop good leadership at all levels in close cooperation with our approximately 650 leaders.

To succeed, we are looking for an experienced leadership development consultant who can contribute to translating the organization’s ambitions for good leadership into action through leadership and organizational development close to practice.

You will become part of Team Leadership , which consists of four consultants. We work with leadership and organizational development across Children and Young People and collaborate with leaders from schools, after-school services and the leisure sector as well as PPR, health visitor services, dental services, administration, etc.

The team has two primary tasks

• Local leadership development
• Cross-cutting strategic leadership and organizational development

What you will be working on

The local development tasks will fill most of your task portfolio. Your primary task is to support leaders and leadership teams in handling current challenges and creating development in their organization. This can be, for example, leadership of the psychosocial work environment, the collaboration culture, changes or the need to strengthen a common leadership practice in a leadership team.

You will have an outward-facing consultancy role with many contact points. Some tasks will be short sparring processes, while others will be longer development processes that you help plan, facilitate and follow up – independently or in collaboration with colleagues. There may also be a need to involve elected representatives and MED committees in the process.

Your tasks will include, among others

• at spar with leaders about concrete challenges and dilemmas in their leadership task
• at identify the situation and plan and facilitate development processes in collaboration with the individual leader or leadership team
• at advise and support leaders or leadership teams in the work with the psychosocial work environment, including translating results from well-being surveys into concrete actions
• at support leaders in creating a good collaboration culture, handling disagreements, conflicts etc.
• at advise and support leaders through organizational changes

The cross-cutting strategic leadership and organizational development tasks also fill the team. They include onboarding programs for new leaders, leadership talent programs, seminars for leaders across the organization, support for leader well-being etc. These tasks are contributed by the team in various ways.

What you bring

We are looking for you who

• have solid knowledge of leadership and organizational development and can translate your professional expertise into concrete solutions and actions in practice
• have experience with and are motivated by designing and facilitating development processes, including supporting leadership in work with e.g. psychosocial work environment, collaboration culture and changes
• thrive in the role of a leadership-supporting consultant who can navigate professionally in complex issues
• works independently and in a structured way while also naturally entering into close and trust-based collaboration with leaders, partners and colleagues
• have a relevant higher education or postgraduate education, e.g. cand.psych., master’s in organizational psychology or equivalent

You will be part of a strong professional community

Team Leadership is part of HR and Organization, which consists of 24 employees distributed across five teams with the following areas of work:

• Leader recruitment
• Organizational and leadership development
• Work environment
• Analysis - Quantitative and qualitative data and analyses
• Learning partners to support local practice development

We work closely across the five teams, and you will experience that we actively use each other for professional sparring and development. At the same time, we strive to create a good collegial community with a high degree of psychological safety and shared professional development.

We have a professional, but informal, working environment where there is room for diversity. We prioritize time together as a team and are focused on continuously developing our professional and collegial cohesion.

Therefore you should choose us

We offer an exciting position with great variety, where the development of good leadership is at the center of your tasks. You will also have the opportunity to make a difference for leaders across the organization – for the benefit of children and young people in Aarhus Municipality.

You get great flexibility in organizing your work and the opportunity to influence how you structure and plan your work.

Salary and employment

We offer full-time employment with pay and terms of employment in accordance with the applicable collective agreement. Final salary determination is made after negotiation with the union representative organization based on your qualifications.

Application

You should send us your application and attachments electronically no later than 1 November 2026. We will shortlist and invite candidates for interviews on 5 November 2026. The first interview will be held on 13 November. There will be a task between the first and second interview. The second interview will be held on 24 November 2026

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• Application deadline: 1 November 2026
• First interview round: 13 November 2026
• Second interview round: 24 November 2026
• Expected start: 1 January 2027

If you want to know more

. … about everyday life in the office, salary and employment terms you are welcome to contact the head of office in HR and Organization, Rasmus Rugaard, at the phone number 2135 3643.

If you want to know more about the team’s tasks, you are welcome to contact the leadership development consultant, Rasmus Munch Overgaard, at the phone number 2135 3642.

You can get a glimpse of who Children and Young People are at the following link: Children and Young People

In Aarhus Municipality, we put the children at the center

We will give all children and young people the best conditions to learn, develop and thrive. It requires strong learning communities and cross-disciplinary collaboration between the adults around the child.

In Aarhus Municipality you become part of a culture of collaboration where data, knowledge and experience are used, so that everyone has the opportunity to learn together from and with each other across professions, employees and management levels. We believe that children and young people do what they can. Children are not the problem, but they show the problem. In Aarhus Municipality the adults take responsibility for learning, development and well-being for all children and young people.