Office Manager sought for the Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities

Are you an experienced and empathetic personnel leader who creates results through good and structured leadership? Then we have a position for you in the Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities.

Your primary task will be to ensure professional coordination, governance and leadership support within the Naalakkersuisut and department servicing. You must also ensure financial management, HR and organizational development, translations, and quality assurance of good case processing.

As Head of Office in the Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities, you will be close to the decisions and can make a decisive difference in the health and disability field.

Office of the Executive Secretariat

The office's tasks vary across a broad field and include, among others

• Professional executive support to the Minister (Naalakkersuisoq) and the department's leadership forum.
• Financial management for the department and follow-up.
• Preparation and execution of strategies from the Self-Government to the department, internal communications, and coordination of inquiries in the main mailbox and other incoming correspondence.
• Liaison on organizational/leadership development in the department, handling of LSSU and HR work including onboarding and retention.
• Manage and coordinate translation and interpretation tasks.

Your area of responsibility

• You will have daily responsibility for personnel management in the Leadership Secretariat.
• Responsible for the office's finances, planning, translations and quality assurance of these, prioritization and management within your own office.
• Responsible for expediting policy proposals to the Naalakkersuisut from the professional departments.
• Responsible for processing Naalakkersuisut matters from the Naalakkersuisut to Inatsisartut.
• Coordination of meetings between the Naalakkersuisut and Inatsisartut.
• Servicing the policy divisions; such as ticket bookings, Acubiz creation, first approval.
• Responsible for ongoing optimization of the case flows in and out of the subject areas.
• Additionally you will have important hands-on tasks such as quality assurance of submissions, notes and cases to the Naalakkersuisut and ad-hoc tasks from the Head of Department, HR-related tasks, etc.

We expect that

You have several years of leadership experience in a similar public-sector position and can deliver results in professionally complex areas in a politically governed organization. It is advantageous if you have experience with the health sector or alternatively can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex professional field.

We emphasize presence- and trust-based leadership and would like your leadership style to create results through professionalism, collaboration, responsibility and oversight. You will gain energy from working in a distinctly high tempo, where new and challenging tasks arrive daily.

In addition, we expect that you

• Have a relevant education at bachelor or master level
• Can Greenlandic and Danish in spoken and written form
• Are proficient in using the Self-Government IT systems including IRIS, Acubiz and Ledelsesinfo
• Can meet deadlines
• Can manage according to central goals and continually build and streamline the department's processes
• Have well-developed communication skills and can translate and convey information to the entire department
• Master the balance between delegating tasks and maintaining an overall overview and ensure high professional quality in all tasks that come in each time
• Are relationship-builders with your own staff, top management and internal stakeholders in the health sector as well as external partners

Salary and employment terms

The position is currently salary-fixed corresponding to 36. The salary with fixed elements and your own contribution to pension in LR 36 amounts as of 1 April 2026 to DKK 57,531 per month and DKK 690,372 per year.

Initially, appointment will be under collective agreement terms; if the applicant is already a civil servant under Greenland's civil service laws, appointment may be under civil servant terms.

Salary and employment terms, including entitlement to travel on appointment and severance, and household relocation, in accordance with the collective agreement in force at the time of taking up employment between the Greenland Self-Government and the relevant negotiating party.

Housing

No staff housing will be provided for the position. If a candidate already has staff housing through employment in the Self-Government, the right to allocated staff housing is maintained. The staff housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated when the employment ends.

Department: Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities

Application deadline: 15 November 2026

Location: Imaneq 1A 401, 3900, Nuuk, Greenland