The Ministry of Environment seeks a generalist with an interest in fisheries and the marine environment

Would you like to use your generalist toolbox of skills to work on ensuring better protection of the sea environment and more sustainable fishing? Then we have a position for you in the Office for Fisheries in the Ministry of Environment's department.

What will you be working on?

As an employee in Fisheries, your work will consist of ministerial servicing, coordinating policy proposals and political agreements, regulations work and EU regulation. These are tasks that give you good opportunities to develop your competencies within public administration and to help shape a field with high political attention.

You will have an interesting and developmental job, where, in collaboration with good colleagues, you will use your skills to contribute to a green transition of the fishing sector, among other things by implementing the fishing agreement from July 2025.

Who are you?

We imagine that you will help make a difference in the green area, and that you are willing to apply your competencies in collaboration with other disciplines. Your colleagues will train you in the professional issues within the area, so that together you can create the best basis for decisions to implement the government's policy.

You have a relevant social sciences or natural sciences master's degree, an interest in the sea, environment or fisheries, and a desire to work with a challenging and technical field that must be translated into a political agenda. We expect that you can see yourself in the following statements:

• Professional interest and strong competencies: You have an interest in and ability to understand complex issues, including commercial fishing, recreational fishing and the strengths and challenges of the marine environment. You have political understanding to translate these kinds of issues into operative political solutions both nationally and internationally.
• Good political understanding: You understand how to exercise judgment in actions and decisions and understand how to integrate the ministry's political landscape and the external world in the task solution.
• Good at managing processes: You are highly structured, can think in terms of wholes, processes and maintain an overview, even when things are fast-paced.
• Strong collaborative skills: You are proactive and good at involving and collaborating with colleagues, agencies, ministries and organizations. You find it exciting to work with other disciplines and find solutions to political problems.
• Good communicator: You are good at communicating complex professional and technical material in a simple and clear way with the recipient in mind and have good language skills in both Danish and English, in writing as well as speaking.
• Good colleague: You want to be part of the team in an office with good collegiality. You are motivated by contributing to the office's task solution and willingly give and receive feedback in collaboration.

Your concrete tasks will be planned according to need and your competencies, and you will take on more than one area of responsibility.

Who are we?

The Office for Fisheries is responsible for policy development and ministerial servicing in the fisheries area. This includes, among other things, the implementation of the fishing agreement A New Course for Danish Fisheries, EU- and national regulation of commercial fishing and recreational fishing, negotiation of fish quotas in the EU and fishing control. With us you will not be bored: our area has political attention, our work affects the people who live from or with fisheries, and it also has great significance for our common marine environment.

Our office consists of dedicated staff with different professional backgrounds, and you will have colleagues with legal, natural science and social science backgrounds and thus also be part of an interdisciplinary environment. What unites us in the office is that we help each other and value an informal tone.

In the Ministry of Environment we work together to protect our nature and environment, and we work for the government's ambitions for a green transition of society. The tasks are solved in cooperation between the ministry and the agency of the ministry.

The ministry handles ministerial servicing and the overall development, planning and administration of legislation in the environmental area. The ministry's main task is to create the optimal professional basis for the minister, the government and the Folketing to make decisions in the environmental area that are beneficial to our surrounding society. We are an exciting and dynamic workplace close to the political system. We continuously work to develop the organization to create simple and politically relevant solutions for the government in power at any given time.

We focus on good leadership, and together we all work from the values simple, together and responsible . We have a good working environment with good opportunities to further develop your professional competencies in close collaboration with capable managers and colleagues. You have good opportunities to influence your tasks and significant influence on your task solving. As part of your career development you will, among other things, have opportunities to apply your competencies by moving between tasks.

There is mutual flexibility in planning of work with the possibility of remote work by agreement, depending on what the tasks permit. We share knowledge and believe that we find the best solutions collectively. We believe that high professional standards can be combined with humor and room for smiles – even in a busy everyday life.

Your salary and employment terms

You will be employed full-time under the state agreement for academics in the state. The appointment is as an administrator (fuldmægtig).

Depending on qualifications there will be the possibility to negotiate a qualification allowance.

The employment area is the Ministry of Environment with its associated institutions. The work place is the Ministry of Environment's department, located at Frederiksholms Kanal 26, 1220 Copenhagen K.

The position is to be filled as soon as possible and no later than January 1, 2027.

Additional information

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the Office Chief Nicolai Højlund at tel. 61 97 92 35 or Deputy Chief Anna Mariager Nedergaard at tel. 21 54 21 60.

You can read more about career and the Ministry of Environment's department on our website www.mim.dk .

How to apply for the position

You apply for the position online by sending your application with CV and transcript of records for both bachelor and master's education including grades no later than October 28, 2026 .

We expect to hold interviews in weeks 44 and 45. In connection with the interview, you will be asked to solve a one-hour case at home.

We look forward to receiving your application.