Marketing Consultant for Continuing and Further Education at SOSU East Jutland

There is a shortage of staff in the entire welfare sector and therefore more people need to be trained. Before they can begin training in the care profession, there may be a need to improve Danish, gain more knowledge about the Danish labour market, workplace culture, etc. These competences can be obtained in what we call a pre-course, and it will be your task as a market consultant to enter into agreements on such courses with our municipalities, region and employment initiatives.

We are looking for a market consultant for the following tasks

Our new market consultant should focus on the development of pre-courses primarily within the health-related field, but it can also be within other subject areas.

The aim of the pre-courses is for each participant to be assessed and upskilled to either regular education or unskilled employment. In the courses, participants are introduced to the sector, and they also often receive Danish language instruction. The target group for pre-courses is unemployed people and others who are not in employment.

Our new market consultant will collaborate with the municipalities’ integration departments and employment efforts, with state agencies and with SOSU East Jutland’s education advisers. As market consultant for the pre-course area, you will be the one who enters into agreements with the municipalities and with the employment sector about which concrete courses should be developed and initiated in SOSU East Jutland’s coverage area.

You will be the one who has contact with key personnel at our partner municipalities, professional organizations, job centres and integration departments. You will be the one who, in close dialogue with the department’s other market consultants, instructors and the head of the continuing education area, prepares proposals and collaboration agreements with relevant partners. You are proactive, good at forming new relationships, persistent and can have many initiatives going on at the same time.

It is a requirement that you have knowledge of and experience with rules and opportunities within upskilling of unemployed and others not in employment, and you thus have knowledge of the rules and framework for pre-courses in relation to employment initiatives, AMU legislation, IGU rules, etc.

We emphasize that you have experience as either an instructor or a consultant in the continuing education sector in general, so you know and understand how work is carried out in this area. It would be an advantage to have a health-professional or pedagogical background, so you have insight into which competences are in demand by municipalities.

We also emphasize that you have knowledge of the target groups our courses and education address and that you know the special offers that exist for target groups who do not have the necessary Danish language skills and perhaps also do not have the professional and cultural prerequisites to complete an AMU education on ordinary terms.

We expect that you

• Are outgoing and good at creating and developing relationships.
• Find motivation in being actively proactive and developing in dialogue with partners and clients/ procurers.
• Enjoy working with competence development both for a broad cross-section of adults with different backgrounds, and in depth with specialization within particular subject areas.
• Are development-oriented and a team player who shares your knowledge and takes joy in others' success.
• Have a relevant higher education at diploma, master’s or master’s level and formal competencies that match the tasks.
• Have at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.

SOSU East Jutland is development-oriented and offers a strong professional pedagogical environment where new ideas are welcomed.

You will receive a thorough introduction to the job as a market consultant, and you will work closely with other market consultants, instructors, course coordinators and management. We have modern teaching facilities, good IT facilities and we are happy to communicate and share digitally.

The start date is 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The primary workplace will be at the school’s address in Aarhus, but you should expect working days at all of the school’s departments. The average working time is 32 hours per week. There will primarily be daytime tasks, but working in the evenings and on some weekends can occur.

Applications with attachments (CV, educational certificates and documentation of relevant experience) must be received by the school no later than 20 October 2026 at 12:00.

Job interviews will be held on 23 October 2026 at SOSU East Jutland, Hedeager 1, Aarhus N.

Only electronic applications are accepted. Follow the link on the school’s website www.sosuoj.dk under vacancies.

The position is remunerated according to the collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the relevant trade union. Circular on the organizational agreement of 2 December 2019 for managers and teachers at institutions offering vocational education that provides the basic social and health education (including SOSU schools).

Further information about the positions can be obtained by contacting the head of continuing education and development Hanne Mentz Nedergaard, tel. 25 15 62 03.

General information about the school

SOSU East Jutland is an autonomous, state-funded educational institution with departments in Aarhus, Silkeborg and Skanderborg. We offer and develop academically strong education for the welfare society of the future.

The school offers basic education and continuing and further education within the social and health sector as well as the pedagogical field. We have about 3,000 students and approx. 200 staff. We have high ambitions for the school and the students, and we strive for a meaningful everyday life where community, health and pedagogy are in balance. This is how we secure the future core welfare.

Read more at www.sosuoj.dk

SOSU East Jutland encourages all interested parties regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background to apply.