Student Assistant (law student) sought for Center for Youth Education in the Ministry of Education

Do you want to try your academic and legal skills in practice, and dream of a study job where you get responsibility, challenges and the opportunity to use your education? Then you might be our new student assistant in the Center for Youth Education in the Agency for Education and Quality?

You will gain in-depth knowledge of some of the agency's legal tasks and an insight into the work in the central administration, while you can test your theoretical skills from your studies in practice.

Your tasks

As a student assistant you will work in close collaboration with the center's other staff, especially the lawyers, who work closely together and spar on legal questions, inquiries, complaint cases etc. Your primary tasks will be to:

• assist the center's staff with preparation and decision of complaint cases
• process exemption applications
• assist with various ad hoc tasks in the center, including access to information requests and responses to inquiries

As a student assistant in the Center for Youth Education you will furthermore join a broad legal professional environment across the entire Agency for Education and Quality, where various network activities are held with starting points in current legal issues.

About you

We imagine that you are a law student preferably with a few years left in your studies. We emphasize that you have an interest in education policy issues, and that you are thorough and approach tasks with great independence and commitment.

Furthermore we emphasize that you

• are analytically minded and systematic in your approach
• have good written and oral communication skills
• have good collaboration skills
• have good humor and can maintain an overview, even when it is busy.

About the center

The Center for Youth Education is responsible for a number of central tasks related to development and administration of education and subjects in the upper secondary area and vocational education area, including regulatory framework in the form of circulars, curricula and guidelines, outward and supporting initiatives in the form of courses for teachers and leaders at youth education institutions. The Center for Youth Education also conducts supervision of the upper secondary and vocational educations and handles most of the Ministry of Education's institution- and citizen-facing tasks in these areas.

The center consists of about 80 employees, of whom 45 are permanent staff, three students and 35 subject consultants. The center's staff are organized and work in four teams, to which there are attached personnel managers team leaders.

Salary and employment terms

As a rule you will be employed for 15 hours per week with the possibility of flexibility during exam periods.

You will be employed as a student assistant under the general agreement between Public Employees Organizations and the Ministry of Finance and the organizational agreement for office functions etc. in the state. We require study activity during the employment as a student assistant.

Expected start date: as soon as possible.

Place of employment: Kalvebod Brygge 47, 1560 Copenhagen V

Does this sound like something for you?

Send your application, CV and a copy of your exam certificate electronically no later than Monday 9 November 2026.

You apply for the positions via our website https://www.uvm.dk/ministeriet/job-i-ministeriet. We expect to hold interviews in weeks 46/47. You will receive more information if you are invited to an interview.

We want the employee diversity to reflect society, and we look forward to your application regardless of personal background – we only consider qualifications and competencies. If you use AI in your application, you may attach your prompt so we can see the thinking you used.

Want to know more?

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Special Consultant Rebec-ca Ysbæk-Nielsen tlf.: 33925237. You can also read more about the Ministry of Education on our website uvm.dk, and about the unit here: https://www.stukuvm.dk.

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