Recent law graduate sought for the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare

Do you want to be part of an ambitious and dedicated team of lawyers in the Legal and HR Office in the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare? We are seeking a lawyer who wants a job in an exciting legal office where we work with complex legal areas related to the ministry's tasks in the animal welfare area and with making the Implementation of a Green Denmark a reality.

What are your tasks?

As a newly graduated lawyer, or a lawyer with relatively little experience, you will in the Legal and HR Office become acquainted with important political decision-making processes in a legal environment where the quality of work is always paramount.

You will become part of a professionally strong and social team that handles concrete access-to-information requests in the department, where you gain a unique experience with the foundation for any good legal case handling, which gives you the best conditions for your further legal career. You will in the process have a broad contact surface across the department, but also to the ministry's agencies and external partners.

You will additionally – depending on experience and interest – be involved in the tasks of the office, which consist of being a legal sparring partner and advisor in cases handled in the ministry's other offices. This work often concerns complex legal questions within several different areas of law, including constitutional law, administrative law, EU law, public procurement law, and criminal law, and involves independent responsibility for a wide range of societally relevant and varied tasks in a political context.

Who are you?

We need a newly graduated lawyer or a lawyer with shorter experience. You are cand.jur., and if you have experience, it is an advantage if you have worked with case processing in a department or with ministerial servicing in general. You may also come from a position in a law firm.

We place emphasis on the following competencies

• Good communicator: You can convey complex legal issues in a clear and understandable way – also to people with a non-legal background.
• Strong legal competencies: You can deliver high-quality professional solutions – even under time pressure, and you are interested in the political agenda.
• Good at keeping track of tasks and processes: You are well-structured, maintain an overview in a changing workday, and ensure progress in cases within the applicable deadlines.
• Good colleague: You have the ability and desire to collaborate with several different professional areas, and you are motivated to contribute to the office's task solving as well as give and receive feedback in collaboration.
• Strong commitment: You show commitment and dedication in the work and want professional and personal development.

We offer you

• An exciting job where you are part of an ambitious ministry in a politically prioritized area.
• Good opportunities to develop your professional potential and your personal competences.
• Skilled colleagues with many different professional backgrounds and extensive collaboration on task solving.
• A workplace where we believe that high professionalism can be combined with room for smiles and mutual flexibility in planning and solving tasks.

Salary and employment conditions

The employment is full-time, and compensation is as an assistant (fuldmægtig) in accordance with the then-current collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and a number of Academia Organizations for academics in the state (Academy Agreement).

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

The workplace is the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare with its associated institutions. The service location is the Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare's department, Holmens Kanal 22, 1060 Copenhagen K.

The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

Would you like to know more

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact the head of legal Carsten Skærbæk Leth at tel. 20 27 32 98 or senior consultant Martin Buss Frederiksen at tel. 20 31 65 13.

How to apply

You apply by sending your CV, a motivated application, examination certificates for both bachelor and master's degrees, including grades, and other relevant documents.

The application deadline is Friday 20 November 2026 at 12:00 . We expect to hold interviews on 23 and 24 November 2026.

There will be a task as part of the recruitment process. This will be clarified in the invitation.

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

We look forward to receiving your application.