Student assistants to combat illegal procurement activities

Would you contribute to ensuring that Danish products do not end up in the wrong hands? Are you analytical and attentive to even the smallest details? Would you like to learn more about intelligence work while sharpening your analytical skills? Then you may be our new student assistants!

We offer an important role as a student assistant in the Counter-espionage Division's Center for Counter-Proliferation. You will join the centre's team for export control and investment screening, which supports the national effort in the area of intelligence assessments. As a student assistant, you will be tasked with contributing to casework in connection with the export of the most critical dual-use products from Danish companies. You will also contribute to the work of screening and assessing foreign direct investments in critical technology and critical infrastructure.

The team works closely with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) on its operational efforts against illicit procurement activities linked to especially Russia and, in addition, has interfaces with several areas of PET, including the China area.

In the job you will have the opportunity to develop yourself within the field of intelligence and also sharpen your analytical skills. You will gain a unique insight into PET's work to counter illegal transfer of technology and knowledge and to cut Russia off from components that contribute to the country's military capacity-building. Finally, you will become part of a team where we become better together and share the tasks and goals.

We offer you a range of exciting tasks within the framework of export control, investment screening and illicit procurement activities. Specifically, you will among other things:

• Contribute to case processing and assessments of consultations in connection with export control, investment screening and other consultation tasks
• Help to improve data quality in connection with, for example, the export control task
• Help to maintain the threat picture in connection with certain foreign direct investments
• Collaborate with operational teams on prioritized areas, including contributing to the operational analysis

Center for Counter-Proliferation is a cross-cutting centre under PET’s Counter-Espionage Department. The centre handles PET’s efforts against Russian procurement activities, spread of weapons of mass destruction, sanctions evasion and threats associated with certain foreign direct investments.

Experience a everyday life that never becomes everyday

As an employee at PET you become part of a daily life characterized by tasks that do not exist elsewhere, and every day brings new challenges not present yesterday. We are very different, and therefore we can make a difference. It’s about who you are and what you contribute.

About you

To be considered for the position you must possess the right skills and qualities and be enrolled in a relevant higher education program. We prefer that you have more than one year of study left.

We expect that you have

• Solid analytical skills
• The ability to review and convey large amounts of complex material precisely and understandably
• Good English language skills
• Good collaboration skills, but also the ability to work independently
• If you have knowledge of international trade and economic security, including the export control area, investment screening and sanctions, you are welcome to mention this in your application

Finally, we place emphasis on you being thorough, dutiful and approachable.

You are also asked to include in your application if you have insight into international politics, including security policy, trade policy, non-proliferation and/or other relevant areas. It will also be viewed positively if you have relevant work experience.

At PET we also value certain personal competencies highly. These are competencies that we believe are essential for all PET employees regardless of professional background. We do this because it is important to us that we find the right match. You can read about the competencies here www.PET.dk/job.

Employment terms

You can read more about the entire PET recruitment process at www.PET.dk/job.

Positions are to be filled as soon as possible.

Your workplace will be at Klausdalsbrovej 1 in Søborg, right next to Buddinge station. Here we have, among other things, a free gym, many social events such as a summer party, DHL relay and an active staff association through which you can obtain various benefits and discounts. In addition you get flexible working hours, paid lunch break and management that focuses on work-life balance.

You will be hired on terms in accordance with the current collective agreement for office staff in the state between the Ministry of Finance and HK/STAT as well as the OAO-S joint agreement.

An employment in PET must be treated with discretion, which you as an applicant should be aware of. This means that you can generally share with trusted close and confidential relationships that you have applied for a position in PET, but not what the job entails.

It is a condition of employment at PET that you can be security cleared, and you must be able to maintain the security clearance throughout your employment. As a security-cleared employee, you are expected to be particularly mindful of your duty of confidentiality regarding classified information.

Further information

You are always very welcome to contact us on weekdays by email [email protected] or by phone +45 24 62 18 45 if you have questions about the position, PET as an employer or similar.

When applying for a position at PET, you authorize us to obtain your CPR number via the CPR registry for identification purposes in connection with the recruitment process. We obtain your CPR number so that we can securely send relevant and necessary documents to you via Digital Post.

It is important to us that PET reflects the diversity we strive for. Therefore we encourage all interested, regardless of gender, age, religion, sexuality and ethnic background, to apply for the position.

Enter a closed world that opens new doors, where we develop, train and build further on what we can. Whether we develop new systems, analyze data or fine-tune the stance for shooting training, we are always on our toes. It creates good opportunities for you to move forward with us, grow with the tasks and open new doors in your working life.

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Application deadline

18.10.2026

Application deadline

18.10.2026

Employer

The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (PET)

Job location (long)

Søborg

Part-time / full-time

Full-time