Leader who believes in the best in people and has a strong professional background in administration and public administration

Are you interested in people and relationships? Are you passionate about good administration and authority work, and would you like to be the leader of a new team where we share the tasks together?

Then we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a brave, generous and competent leader who wants to lead the team Authority and Administration - and be part of our management team in Strategic Development and Support (SUS).

You will be responsible for leading 18 engaged and capable employees

As head of Authority and Administration you will be responsible for leading a team of 18 engaged and capable employees with administrative and academic backgrounds.

Authority and Administration is a new team that is being created in connection with a reorganization in Strategic Development and Support, where we bring together employees and tasks in a new community. The team's primary focus is to lift operations and development tasks within authority and administration that support the schools, the day-care centers, Strategic Development and Support and the entire directorate area in Children, School, Culture, Youth and Leisure.

An important task will be to create a framework for the new team, where collaboration on e.g. access to information, information security, school enrollment, space allocation and administrative tasks broadly should be strengthened. We are focused on building a culture where we are collectively responsible for tasks within a framework of co-leadership. This calls for a leader who, together with the employees, can create clear boundaries for task completion, enabling the work community to work as independently as possible with the tasks. Here you have an important role in facilitating this development.

As a people leader you will have ongoing sparring and be in dialogue with the team and each employee about balance, well-being and tasks as well as development of the team's working and cooperation cultures. You should be eager to contribute to strengthening our shared prioritization culture – in each employee's task execution, across Strategic Development and Support and in collaboration with the director and heads of profession.

You will also become part of a leadership team where we stand together to lead Strategic Development and Support and support each other and the community. This is based on a desire to support the community and a shared culture in the department, where we work across teams, advise each other and unlock the potential of being a department with many different professional backgrounds.

Last but not least, it will be an important task to lift cross-cutting, strategic leadership tasks for the entire administration area of Children and School, Culture, Youth and Leisure. This could include participating in cross-department steering groups on issues such as information security, data and digitization, ESDH and intranet.

You are interested in people and relationships

We are looking for someone who is interested in people and relationships. Someone who wants to be part of a development where we increase the mandate for employees, create binding communities and work to create a flow-efficient organization with good frameworks for tasks and clear expectations alignment. And someone who has solid experience with authority and administration and has ambitions for and willingness to develop the area professionally and process-wise.

Therefore, it is important that you

• Are good at and enjoy people management. You are good at listening, facilitating task solving and supporting the development of the individual employee and the team.
• Have experience in developing co-management in task communities, including setting frameworks, direction and increasing the mandate.
• Have professional knowledge in the authority and administration area and leadership experience in giving employees professional sparring on tasks such as access to information, citizen inquiries, information security and digitization of administrative processes
• Can act under cross-pressure and are good at balancing the demands of top management with the team’s resources, and handle conflicts if they arise.
• Are keen to be part of a leadership team where we are committed to one another and make an effort to be coordinated and aligned, so we support the work community across the Strategic Development and Support.

It is ideal if you have experience from a municipal administration, but it is just as interesting for us to have experience from another politically governed organization or a larger private company. The decisive factor is your experience with leadership within an area with many stakeholders.

About Strategic Development and Support

Strategic Development and Support is a department in the directorate area of Children and School, Culture, Youth and Leisure. Our task is - in cooperation with the director and heads of profession - to support the operations and development of the professional areas in مختلف ways.

We must ensure strong director support, support cross-cutting collaboration with a holistic view and special support for School, Day Care and Culture. We therefore have a particularly close collaboration with the director, the head of schools, the head of day care and the head of culture, who set the professional direction within their field – and with the many day cares, schools and culture institutions we support in everyday life.

In addition, we carry out a number of tasks across Children and School, Culture, Youth and Leisure, where we are responsible for developing, organizing and driving tasks.

Strategic Development and Support is organized into four teams: Day Care, School, Authority and Administration and Cross-cutting Support. We are led by one chief, three managers and about 45 employees. The leadership team consists of the head of School, the head of Day Care, the head of Cross-cutting Support and the department director.

In Strategic Development and Support we work together on tasks and meet each other with the values Trust, Courage, Transparency and Generosity.

Starting from compassion, we have each other’s well-being in mind. We can therefore offer a leadership role in a department where we strive to create a good working environment as part of a leadership team, where collaboration is a priority.

If you can see yourself in this role and want to contribute to our community, we would love to hear from you.

Application deadline is 15 November 2026.

You are welcome to contact the manager Susanne Lanstorp at 2937 7694 to hear more about the position. You can also contact managers Jacob Hviid Larsen 2049 9908 or Christine Elisabeth Riis 2055 3262, who will be your new colleagues and can also tell you about the position and the collaboration in the leadership team.

Process

We will conduct the first interview on 18 November 2026 and the second interview on 23 November 2026.

If you proceed to the second interview, you will be asked to complete a personality test (People Test) followed by an interview with our HR consultant.