The Economic and Personnel Agency is seeking a service-minded office manager for Payroll Service

Are you good at understanding workflows? Are you quick to create an overview, but also have a strong eye for detail? Do you have knowledge of ”Akissarsiat”? And are you the type who can motivate on long days? Then it might be you who should be the next head of the Office of Payroll Services at the Office for Economic and Personnel Administration.

The office processes about 11,000 payroll payments per month for monthly paid, hourly paid and certain pensioners within the Greenland Self-Government and Health Service. Your closest collaborators will be the HR Department, the Central Accounting Department, the Management Secretariat, and your immediate supervisor, the Head of HR and Negotiations. You and your office, with about 12 employees, will also work closely with all units in the Greenland Self-Government.

In recent years there has been and continues to be a focus on streamlining workflows, including the introduction of operating manuals, digitalization of forms, use of e-box, etc. This is therefore a challenging job that requires both focus and systematicity as well as the ability to optimize your own area of work.

Your tasks

As the head of office you have the daily personnel and professional leadership responsibility for the employees in the office. You must create direction and overview in task handling, prioritize resources and ensure high professional quality and timely delivery. At the same time, the head of office position is a working leadership role, where you are expected to actively participate in the office's professional task solving.

You will among other things be responsible for

• Leading, prioritizing and coordinating the office's daily work
• Ensuring employee development and well-being
• Ensuring quality in production and efficient solving of the office's core tasks
• Ensuring continued development of internal workflows and processes
• Ensuring good contact and a high level of satisfaction among internal and external customers.

Your professional qualifications

• A relevant professional education and leadership experience
• Experience with work within the personnel administration area
• Experience with the regulations governing accounting and payroll within the public administration
• In-depth knowledge of and preferably practical experience with the payroll system ”Akissarsiat”

Your personal competences

• Good collaboration skills and the ability to build relationships across the organization and Self-Government units
• Creates good conditions for employees' well-being, professional development, responsibility and autonomy
• Patient and able to encourage a high performance level among your employees, not least during peak periods
• Result-oriented, proactive and able to work under pressure
• Positive and approachable, good at communicating and motivating the organization around you
• Proficient in the Greenlandic language in writing and speaking

We offer

ASA is a large workplace with a focus on professionalism, digitalization, optimization of work processes and cross-cutting collaboration. You will have good opportunities to develop your leadership through the Central Administration's leadership development offerings while strengthening your professional skills in payroll accounting and the personnel administration area. You will experience and must dare to have a large degree of influence on the development of tasks in the payroll area. In the payroll office we have an informal tone and a good collegial camaraderie, even in pressured work situations.

About us

The Office for Payroll Services is part of the Office of Finance and Personnel (ASA), which is an agency under the Ministry of Finance. ASA has about 110 employees including interns, temporary workers and student assistants. You can read more about ASA at www.asa.gl. In the payroll office we have an informal tone and a good collegial camaraderie, even in pressured work situations.

Further information

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the Head of HR and Negotiations Frederik Schmidt tel. +299 346681, e-mail [email protected].

Applicants must be prepared to undergo a testing process.

Application deadline

The application deadline is 12 November 2026.

Start date

Start on 1 December 2026 or by agreement.

Terms of employment

The position is currently salary-fixed corresponding to 36. The salary with fixed elements and own contribution to the pension in LR 36 amounts as of 1 April 2026 to 57,531 DKK per month and 690,372 DKK per year.

Initially, employment will be under a collective agreement, where the applicant, if already a civil servant under the Greenlandic Civil Servants Act, may be employed under civil servant terms.

Wage and employment terms, including the right to relocation and housing, according to the applicable collective agreement at the time of employment between the Greenland Self-Government and the involved negotiating organizations. Civil servants in the state and employees under a number of AC agreements, including the agreement between DJØF and the Ministry of Finance, have the right to unpaid leave in connection with employment under the Greenland Self-Government.

The Ministry of Interior has likewise requested municipalities and regions to show flexibility for applications for unpaid leave when employed under the Greenland Self-Government. Provisions on unpaid leave also include spouses/partners of persons employed under the Greenland Self-Government.

The working hours are initially 40 hours per week, and the position is associated with a standby obligation of 320 hours annually and 80 per quarter, and the provisions on compensation for lost days do not apply.

Housing

No government housing is allocated to the position. If a candidate already has government housing through employment in the Self-Government, the right to use government housing remains. The government housing is tied to the employment relationship and must be vacated at the end of the employment.

Submit your application, CV, educational and course certificates, and other relevant documents by clicking “Send application”.

We do not accept applications by e-mail.

Department: Office of Finance and Personnel

Application deadline: 12 November 2026

Location: Aqqusinersuaq 5, 3900, Nuuk, Greenland