Office Manager to the Council Secretariat

Do you want to help set a clear direction for a political secretariat, and are you a skilled people leader with a sharp eye for both detail and the whole? Then you are the one we are looking for.

We are seeking a capable office head for the Council Secretariat who has political acumen, strategic vision and an understanding of how political decisions become reality.

The Council Secretariat is anchored in Region Midtjylland’s Regional Secretariat, which comprises 167 employees spread across 6 different offices, including the Council Secretariat.

The Regional Secretariat is a centrally placed department in Region Midtjylland’s administrative staff and has several core tasks for the region.

One of these is to ensure capable political support. That work primarily takes place in and via the Council Secretariat, for which we are seeking a new office head.

We are looking for a leader who can read the new political organization, see strategic opportunities and understand the organization’s many perspectives - both for their own office and out toward the many important partners inside and outside the organization.

A central role close to the political decisions

As office head you lead an office that plays a central role in the region’s overall task solution. The Council Secretariat is organizationally anchored in the Regional Secretariat, which in many areas is a strategic and coordinating link across the group and whose essential role is to cooperate broadly with both the political level, the executive and the organization’s many professional environments.

The office supports among others the regional council, the business committee and the preparatory health councils. This requires both strategic overview, secure coordination and the ability to create good frameworks for political work.

The task involves much more than meetings, agendas and minutes. It is about creating the best possible preconditions for political decisions, ensuring quality and coherence in the decision basis and supporting that political perspectives are thought into relevant processes and decisions across the administration.

You will be part of a leadership group consisting of 7 office and deputy office heads and will report to the Director of the Regional Secretariat.

Your leadership task

You will lead an extremely competent and engaged office with diverse professional backgrounds and experiences. Your most important task will be to create clear direction and good frameworks so that employees can succeed in their tasks and bring their competencies to bear in the best possible way.

As a member of the leadership group you will also play an important role in developing the Regional Secretariat. You must be able to look beyond your own office, contribute constructively to cross-cutting priorities and help create coherence in the overall task solution.

You must be a visible and trust-building leader who communicates clearly, creates alignment and supports a strong professional community. You must also be able to prioritise between tasks, allocate responsibilities and ensure that the office works efficiently and coherently.

We expect that you

Have political acumen and understanding. You can navigate confidently in a large-political organization and in close collaboration with both operations and other important administrative departments. You must have a sense for both formal processes and the more informal dynamics.

Have strategic vision. You can identify the essential agendas, see connections across fields and translate complex issues into clear priorities and courses of action.

Understand the interaction with operations. You know that good decisions require insight into the reality they must operate in, and that implementation and anchoring must be planned from the outset.

Can create direction and momentum. You prioritise sharply, ensure quality and create an overview, even when many tasks compete for attention.

Prioritise a healthy working environment with focus on presence, well-being and competency development and with an open, dialogue-oriented and trusting tone.

Are a strong partner. You build trustful relationships, can align different perspectives and create follow-through across professional and organizational boundaries.

Leadership with a focus on both people and the task

You will lead an office with about 18 employees, consisting of both academic and administrative (HK) staff. The professionalism is high and spread across different competencies, which together ensure a broad and versatile task solution.

Your leadership task will be to set a clear direction and create good conditions for the employees to succeed.

You must be able to create an overview without losing sight of the individual, give space for professionalism and initiative and at the same time ensure common priorities and high quality in task execution. This requires present leadership, clear communication and the ability to foster a culture where collaboration, openness, accountability and development go hand in hand.

You must also be able to see the potential in developing the office’s task solution in line with the organization’s needs – without losing hold of daily operations, which are a crucial prerequisite for the rest of the organization to succeed.

A broad portfolio of tasks with great importance

In addition to political support and cooperation with the management, the office has responsibility for a number of tasks that support the organization’s overall operation. This includes secretarial support for executive board meetings.

The office also has responsibility for the region’s duties in connection with regional council elections and hosting a new regional council, system ownership for the politician reimbursement system and First Agenda, as well as a number of internal tasks for the Regional Secretariat, including finance and personnel.

A portion of the task portfolio includes management responsibility for ensuring that the Patient Office is anchored with the office head of the Council Secretariat. The Patient Office is led daily by a deputy office head and independently handles daily operations.

It is a broad portfolio that requires the ability to switch between strategic perspective and secure operational management – and to ensure that the many different tasks hang together and are solved with high quality.

Who are you?

We imagine you have solid experience from a politically governed organization and a relevant advanced social science education. You have experience with leadership and with supporting political decision-making processes at a high level.

What is crucial, however, is not only what you have worked with, but how you approach the task. You are curious about the organization, good at asking the right questions and able to create an overview in complex contexts. You have the courage to prioritise, a sense of timing and an understanding of when you should challenge, advise, coordinate or ensure that something is carried through safely.

You thrive in a daily life where the agenda can shift, where relationships are decisive, and where results are created in close collaboration with others.

If you can see yourself in the above and would like to lead an office that makes a real difference to the region’s overall task solution, we look forward to hearing from you.

Salary and terms of employment

Start date February 1, 2027. You will be employed by Region Midtjylland with service at the Regional Secretariat, Skottenborg 26, 8800 Viborg.

The position as office head for the Council Secretariat is paid according to the “Agreement for managers” at step 51 with a salary level of 818,334 DKK (as of October 1, 2026).

In addition there is a pension of 21.59% and the possibility of negotiating a qualification allowance.

The position is exempt from the requirement for time registration.

Practical information

The application deadline is Tuesday, 24 November 2026.

We will conduct interviews on 1 Dec (after 15:00) and the second interview on 9 Dec (after 15:00).

You can contact either the director of the Regional Secretariat, Anna Trige Lindberg, at telephone 24 91 55 73 or the office head Tina Leutholtz at 20 33 08 91, if you would like further information or have questions about the position.

We also refer to Region Midtjylland’s website www.rm.dk and the organizational plan for Region Midtjylland, where you can read more about the Regional Secretariat at 1774-organisationsplan.pdf

The position is essentially a full-time position.

As Region Midtjylland continually implements savings and reorganizations, employees in redeployment who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Midtjylland is, pursuant to the EU's pay transparency directive, which came into force on June 7, 2026, obliged to inform you of starting salary or a salary range before offering employment.

Here you will find Region Midtjylland’s salary catalog for most occupational groups and positions found in Region Midtjylland: Transparency before employment - Medarbejder.rm.dk