Staff for Documentation and Archival Research at the National Archives

Are you an eagle at archive research, and is there a detective in your DNA? Can you provide the best service to our customers? Do you thrive with a workday that includes a good mix of challenges and more routine tasks? Then here is the opportunity to join the team in one of Denmark's oldest cultural institutions.

About The National Archives

With almost 1000 years of analog and digital societal documentation, The National Archives is Denmark's memory and knowledge center for the development of Danish society. We collect, preserve and deliver original documents and data that support the needs of a knowledge- and rights-based society and create new insights and understandings of our society. At The National Archives you become part of an ambitious and modern organization.

In close collaboration with our users, we continually strive to be an important player in the public digital infrastructure, so that our large amount of data creates the greatest possible value for citizens, researchers, companies and public authorities.

The job

You will become part of The National Archives' Unit for Revenue-Generating Activities, where we handle paid tasks within the archival professional areas of documentation, registration and filing, archive investigations, digitization and consultancy for public authorities and companies. We are a good and highly engaged team, and we look forward to involving you in our community around solving tasks

Your main tasks consist of documentation work including e.g. inheritance investigations and other archive investigations.

About you

We do not place much emphasis on which educational background you have as well as your professional qualifications, including experience with documentation work. In addition, we emphasize whether you can navigate The National Archives' collections and read handwritten materials.

We are looking for you who

• can read various older scripts, at least from the 1900s
• can handle a work pace where it can be very busy
• can and want to work digitally
• understand the importance of correct documentation of events
• can work independently and in teams
• have experience serving customers via email and telephone
• can deliver good service and align expectations with customers
• are persistent and ask for help when a task stalls

About us

You become part of a unit with high expertise, great commitment and good humor. Our everyday is characterized by a strong team spirit and the joy of solving problems together. We place importance on a high degree of professionalism, credibility and responsibility in the tasks we solve.

We have a good, developing and informal working environment where both professionalism, camaraderie and engagement are top.

We are housed centrally in Copenhagen with the Central Station around the corner. For us, being present together with our colleagues matters a lot, and we believe that cooperation and knowledge sharing across the National Archives is crucial for a good work environment. At the same time we want to ensure flexibility for our employees, and remote work is arranged on an ongoing basis between the manager and the employee, when it is compatible with task handling.

It is important for us that you get a good start at The National Archives. The first weeks there is an introductory program, where you get ample opportunity to get to know your new colleagues and the organization as well as to get started with your tasks.

Salary and employment terms

You will be employed in accordance with the applicable collective agreement between the Ministry of Finance and Public Employees Organizations (OAO-S) and HK. Working hours are on average 37 hours per week. We have flexible working hours and emphasize that work and private life fit well together.

The position is located in The National Archives' Unit for Revenue-Generating Activities and the workplace is Kalvebod Brygge 34, Copenhagen.

The positions are desired to be filled 01 January 2027 and are fixed-term until the end of December 2027.

We perform security checks.

Your application

Submit a motivated application, CV and documentation for relevant education and experience via The National Archives' recruitment system. You will be guided through the recruitment process when you click 'Search for the position' at the bottom of this page.

The application deadline is 18 October 2026 . We expect to hold interviews in week 45.

For more information about the position can be obtained from archivist Ditte Wonsyld at telephone number 41 71 72 22 or section head Brian Kalhøj at telephone number 41 71 72 24.

You can also read more about The National Archives at www.rigsarkivet.dk .

The National Archives strives to achieve as broad a composition of employees as possible. Therefore we encourage all qualified applicants regardless of personal background to apply.