Strategic Consultant for Elderly and Rehabilitation in Vejen Municipality

In the Department of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation in Vejen Municipality we are seeking a strategic consultant for a newly created position.

We offer an exciting position where the tasks range from supporting daily operations to development and rethinking of the area.

You will as a consultant with us become part of a professional environment and collegial atmosphere at the area office in Rødding, where the position is organizationally placed under the head of Administration and Support Functions. But a large part of the daily task execution will take place out in the organization in close collaboration with the area manager, the overall management team and key people in the area.

We expect that you can say yes to that you

• have a medium- to long-cycle higher education, preferably at master's level.
• have knowledge of the elderly care and health sector, preferably both theoretical and practical.
• have experience working in a politically led organization.
• are strong in both written and oral communication.
• are happy to align with Vejen Municipality's values.
• are willing to contribute to a work environment where you and your colleagues experience and practice high professionalism, psychological safety and job satisfaction.
• have interest and preferably experience with tasks that involve process facilitation, both planning and implementation, and can support managers with analyses, decision proposals, coordination and follow-up.
• work independently, take responsibility and thrive with a high degree of influence over your own tasks.
• have strong coordination skills and thrive in creating coherence across disciplines, stakeholders and organizational levels.
• have good collaboration skills and are able to create constructive relationships with both managers, employees and internal and external partners.
• thrive in an environment characterized by change, collaboration and many points of contact.

We can offer

• A job in an organization where the work culture is characterized by our so-called NASA values, which stand for Innovation, Recognition, Coherence and Accountability.
• An organization with a well-functioning council, where we experience a high level of trust in professionalism and favorable political frameworks for working strategically and long-term.
• An organization where we jointly work for a high level of psychological safety, as well as a culture with open dialogue across our entire area, where we want to encourage everyone to be curious, brave and have big visions.
• A position that involves close collaboration with the management team in Elderly Care and Rehabilitation. It is a management team with broad professional breadth, a strong cooperative spirit where people use each other for sparring and find solutions together.

As this is a newly created consultant position, we expect that the content of the job will continuously develop. Initially, we expect that the following tasks will be included in the position:

• Coordinating function for Elderly Care and Rehabilitation with regard to the emergency preparedness area; this will be done in close collaboration with, among others, the development nurses.
• Strengthen recruitment efforts with various initiatives, this will be done in close collaboration with the area leaders
• Coordinating function for housing administration, this will among other things be done in close coordination with the department's lawyer
• Support the managers and the area manager in development tasks and organizational initiatives.

Salary and employment terms are provided in accordance with the applicable collective agreement.

The position is generally 37 hours per week, but other working hours can be agreed.

If you have questions, you are very welcome to contact

• Head of Administration and Support Functions Camilla Milland, tel. 30 17 04 40
• Area Manager Anette Filtenborg, tel. 29 31 72 76

Application deadline November 5, 2026.

First interview round on November 16, 2026 and second interview round on November 18, 2026.

All interested parties regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic origin are encouraged to apply for the position.