Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare seeks an academic employee for corporate governance

In the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare, we are looking for one employee who will have a central role in corporate governance.

About us

Do you want a job where you can work with complex and societally important tasks in a ministry that handles an important implementation assignment? Do you want to help support effective corporate governance and administration? The Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare is responsible for the extensive transformation of agricultural land into nature and forest, improving the Danish water environment, and supporting animal welfare and a sustainable agricultural and food production.

We work on transforming our agriculture and nature so that we can ensure a greener Denmark – not least for future generations. We have about 200 employees in the ministry, which is centrally located in Copenhagen close to Christiansborg.

What will you be working on?

The position is located in the ministry’s Office for Corporate Governance and Corporate Economics.

You will become part of a unit of about 25 employees, including two office managers and one deputy head. The position is placed in the part of the office responsible for the ministry’s corporate governance and the implementation of the department’s supervision aimed at the agencies. We work with administrative tasks and issues that cross the ministry’s areas of responsibility as well as directorate, ministerial and parliamentary servicing in connection with the department’s supervision.

In addition, we handle tasks related to supervision of the EU’s agricultural funds in Denmark, and we have ongoing contact with the European Commission and EU audit bodies.

Your tasks may include

• Development and coordination of the department’s governance and supervision of the corporate group, including secretariat support for corporate and governance fora with the ministry’s two agencies; the Agency for Green Land Consolidation and the Water Environment as well as the Nature Agency.
• Corporate governance tasks in the form of, among other things, development and implementation of risk management, objective- and result management, and follow-up on policy and operational objectives and case processing times in the ministerial area.
• Handling audits and investigations from the National Audit Office.
• Handling audits from the European Commission and EU’s other audit bodies.
• Handling complex administrative cases across the corporate group.
• Various other cross-cutting tasks related to the operation of the corporate group.

Your specific tasks and responsibilities will be tailored to your competencies and experience.

About you

You have a relevant social science or legal education or equivalent. You preferably have a couple of years of experience and relevant competencies within, for example, public administration, governance and supervision, and preferably from the central administration. You can also be a recent graduate with the right profile and professional interests.

We expect you to identify with the following statements

• Have professional interest and strong competencies : You are interested in and able to understand complex problems, and have political understanding to translate issues into good solutions. You preferably have relevant experience, e.g. from the central administration, interest organizations or the consulting industry.
• Are good at managing processes : You are well-structured, can think in terms of whole processes and keep an overview, even when things move fast.
• Have strong collaboration skills : You are proactive and good at involving and collaborating with colleagues, agencies, ministries and organizations. You find it exciting to collaborate with other professional disciplines and to find solutions to political problems.
• Good communicators : You are good at communicating complex issues clearly and precisely, and you have strong language skills, both written and spoken.
• Good colleague : You contribute as a team player and are a good colleague, but also ready to take on independent responsibility.

We offer you

You will start in a job where you will have good development opportunities with new tasks and increasing responsibility.

If you are a recent graduate you will learn the craft of public administration and gain insight into the workflows in a department and the political decision-making processes. We also offer:

• An exciting job in a politically prioritized area.
• Good opportunities to develop your professional potential and your personal competences.
• Skilled colleagues with many diverse professions and broad collaboration on task solving.
• Mutual flexibility in planning of work execution.
• Contributing to developing and consolidating a still relatively new ministry, where we work together to deliver, dare to challenge each other and enjoy working together.

Salary and employment terms

Salary and employment terms are in accordance with the current agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a number of academic organizations for academics in the state (Academics’ Agreement). The appointment is full-time, and compensation is as a Senior Clerk or Senior Consultant depending on experience.

Depending on qualifications, there will be an opportunity to negotiate a qualification allowance.

The employment area is the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare with the associated institutions. The place of service is the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare, department, Holmens Kanal 22, 1060 Copenhagen K.

The position is available from 1 February 2027.

Want to know more

If you have further questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Office Head Mathias Nørgård on tel. 29 32 93 74 or Deputy Head Casper Høgh Jacobsen on tel. 24 65 26 68.

Also visit our website at mgtp.dk and follow us on LinkedIn.

How to apply

You apply for the position by sending your CV, a motivated application, educational certificates and other relevant documents.

The application deadline is Sunday, 29 November 2026 .

We expect to hold 1st interviews in week 49 and 2nd interviews in week 50.

The position may be associated with a requirement that you can be security cleared and maintain the security clearance throughout your employment.

There will be one task as part of the recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application.