Two pedagogical leaders for Langenæsstien 6A and 6B in close co-leadership at Langenæs Daycare.

Langenæsstien 6A and 6B are two integrated day-care institutions with a strong connection and close collaboration across. We are now seeking two pedagogical leaders, each responsible for their own department, but who also participate in a close and committed peer leadership.

As leaders, you together will continue the strong coherence between the departments and create a clear direction for the pedagogical practice. You will have the opportunity for ongoing sparring, coordination and decision-making across – always with presence, clarity and respect for the different cultures and strengths of the departments.

Leadership with us is about safeguarding the already close, cross-department collaboration and being curious about professional development for the benefit of children, parents and staff.

About Langenæsstien 6A

We are an integrated institution consisting of two toddler groups with 24 children and three kindergarten groups consisting of 36 children. We focus on ensuring that all children feel part of a shared and binding community and therefore collaborate across groups and age ranges. Safety, care and strong relationships are the foundation for children’s well-being and development. In our daily work we aim to give the children recognizability and clear routines as well as developing learning environments.

About Langenæsstien 6B

In Langenæsstien 6B we are also an integrated institution with two toddler groups with 24 children and three kindergarten groups with 40 children, which also collaborate across groups and ages. We are committed to ensuring that all children feel like meaningful participants in the community. Our daily life is based on a clear and recognizable structure that provides overview and predictability for both children and staff.

Common to the two departments

In both departments there are both educators, assistants and students employed, who collaborate to create good development and participation opportunities for all children. The departments are characterized by high professionalism with a focus on the good life of children, where each child is met as unique and equal.

We prioritise outdoor life and use nature as the framework for our pedagogical work and daily activities with inspiration from nature’s calendar. Both institutions have a nature team working with natural teaching, and access to a natural learning center with among other things a animal stable and reptiles.

Play is central in our pedagogical practice, because it is crucial for children’s social learning and development. Therefore we work, among other things, with play manners and with creating strong frameworks for children’s play.

We also collaborate on language work and develop joint linguistic learning environments. Our language guides share knowledge and support the joint professional development across the departments.

Likewise, through the Center for ADHD , trained educators have knowledge and competencies to work with DINA school as part of the initiative “increased well-being for all” . Here we work among other things with action-learning programs.

Staff across the two departments know each other well. This provides good opportunities for joint collaboration, knowledge sharing and helping each other in everyday life – for example by lending staff across departments.

We have an engaged parent group and prioritise close and trusting cooperation with the children’s parents.

About the job

As a pedagogical leader you have overall responsibility for the pedagogical practice and daily operations in your department. You create clear frameworks and good conditions for the pedagogical work through goals, structure, organization and professional sparring.

Your tasks include, among other things

• Ensure alignment between pedagogical objectives and practice
• Support the continued coherence and close collaboration between the two departments
• Actively participate in close peer leadership, where decisions can be made and coordinated across
• Be visible in everyday life and meet staff, children and parents with respect and presence
• Lead inclusive processes and support shared reflection, learning and professional development
• Be receptive and inclusive in decisions where transparency is crucial.
• Ensure stable operations, including finances and duty rosters
• Create a close and trusting collaboration with parents
• Continue the work with Daycare for All and build on the well-functioning professional practice in the departments

About you

You are educated as a pedagogist and have experience from the 0-6 year area. You may be new to a leadership role or have previous leadership experience – either as a formal leader or through leadership tasks in practice. With us there is room for you to develop as a leader.

We hope that you can recognize yourself in the following

• Have strong communicative and relational competences
• Have a reflective and inclusive view on children
• Can balance pedagogical development with stable operations
• Can create direction and security – also when quick decisions need to be made
• See the value of a close and binding peer leadership
• Are listening, dialogic and collaborative across the departments
• Can set a clear direction with respect for what already works
• Can strengthen collaboration on the good life of children
• Have an eye for the quality of the pedagogical learning environments
• An exciting leadership position in close peer leadership, where the departments are only separated by a glass corridor.
• Two stable and well-functioning departments with high professionalism and engaged staff who are motivated by being led with professionalism, presence and clear leadership.
• Two houses where both children and adults thrive, and where collaboration, responsibility and job satisfaction are prioritized highly.
• A continued burning desire to collaborate across departments and the possibility to let oneself be inspired and supported by each other in everyday life.
• To become part of a new and smaller leadership team consisting of seven pedagogical leaders and a day-care leader with a focus on close knowledge of each other and each other’s pedagogical practice.
• To visit each other in the departments, including through supervision, observations and sparring.
• A team where we share challenges, help each other and lift the task in community.
• Opportunity to contribute to the continued development of Langenæs day-care’s pedagogical direction and coherence.
• A thorough onboarding process with a mentor from the leadership team and close sparring from the day-care leader on pedagogy, quality and operations.

Salary and employment

The position is a full-time role without a cap on hours. Salary and terms follow the applicable collective agreement and local pay agreement made with the relevant professional organization. The annual salary is approx. 533,660 ex. pension. In addition, qualification allowances for specific educations, cf. the local pay agreement.

A child's and criminal background check will be obtained.

We hope you can start on 1 January 2027.

If you want to know more

If you have questions about the position, you can contact day-care leader Christina Søndergaard Kristensen by email [email protected] or by phone at 42 11 35 62. There will be an opportunity to arrange a tour.

You can also read more here

• About us: Langenæsstien 6A
• About us: Langenæsstien 6B
• About working in Children and Young People: Work in Children and Young People (aarhus.dk)
• About broader child communities: Broader child communities (aarhus.dk)
• About Stronger learning communities: Stronger Learning Communities (aarhus.dk)
• About Child and Youth Policy: Child and Youth Policy

How to apply

• Submit your application and attachments electronically by 12 November before 24:00.
• You must indicate in your application which one or more positions you are interested in.
• You will be contacted on 16 November if you are invited to an interview.
• First interview round will take place on 18 November from 8:30 (for both positions).
• An HR consultant will participate in the recruitment process. Between the first and second interviews, personality profiling and a cognitive test will be used.
• Second interview round will be held on 25 November from 13:00 (for the Langenæsstien 6A position) or 27 November from 9:30 (for the Langenæsstien 6B position).

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We look forward to hearing from you!

In the City of Aarhus we put the children at the center

We want to give all children and young people the best conditions to learn, develop and thrive. This requires strong learning communities and interdisciplinary collaboration among the adults around the child.

In the City of Aarhus you become part of a culture of cooperation where data, knowledge and experiences are used so that everyone has the opportunity to learn together from each other and with each other across professions, staff and leadership levels. We believe that children and young people do what they can. Children are not the problem, but they show the problem. In the City of Aarhus the adults take responsibility for learning, development and well-being for all children and young people.