Education-coordinating Chief Physician at HR, Aarhus University Hospital

Do you want to help develop and set the direction for medical postgraduate education at AUH in the healthcare system of the future?

The implementation of the Health Reform will largely transform medical postgraduate education. There will be a need for everyone – not only doctors – to educate themselves throughout life across professions and sectors, and for new competencies within digitalization, holistic thinking and collaboration with others to be integrated into the core medical tasks.

We therefore from 1 January 2027 seek a visionary and development-oriented educational coordinating chief physician (UKLO), who has the ability and desire to, in close interaction with others, lead the overall professional and strategic task and effort to develop medical postgraduate education at AUH.

About the position

As UKLO you will have a central role in the development of medical postgraduate education. You will help translate strategic goals into concrete actions through leadership, advisory, quality development and organizational anchoring. The function is carried out in close collaboration with the health and hospital leadership, the hospital's strategic council for education, the education responsible actors at the hospital and external partners in education and other relevant areas.

Your role builds a bridge between strategy and clinical practice, and you will help future-proof the organization of the entire education area at AUH.

You will play an important role in creating coherence between strategic priorities and daily educational practice in the departments. You will be involved in developing, planning and optimizing the quality of education both at department level and across the hospital. You will, among other things, contribute to spreading and improving pedagogical methods, strengthening education leadership and ensuring a continually strong focus on creating a good and safe learning environment.

As UKLO you will become part of Medical Postgraduate Education, which is part of AUH’s education organization, anchored in HR. Here you will join a closely committed collaboration on interprofessional education at AUH.

You will work closely with the hospital's two other UKLOs, and together you have a special responsibility for the professional development within the area.

An important task is to advise and collaborate with health and hospital leadership, department management and education teams to strengthen the quality of education, develop attractive learning environments and ensure coherence between strategy, operations and quality development. The role includes coordination, case processing, competence development, follow-up on quality data and representation of the hospital in regional and national collaboration forums.

Core areas

• Strategy and management support

Develop and qualify the overall strategy for medical postgraduate education in close collaboration with health and hospital leadership and support relevant councils and forums.

• Quality assurance and development of education

Coordinate, quality assure and further develop educational initiatives in departments and across the hospital based on quality data, including inspector visits and follow-up.

• Strengthening the educational environment and educational leadership

Facilitate pedagogical and organizational initiatives that support an attractive educational environment, and contribute to faculty development and onboarding of education responsible chief physicians

• Case processing and management of educational programs

Support administration and case handling within medical postgraduate education, including management of undesirable processes, sizing and future educational initiatives.

• Development, research and external representation

Promote development and research efforts within medical education and represent the hospital in regional and national collaboration forums to strengthen the hospital's profile as an education hospital.

About you

As UKLO you must be a qualified chief physician, with experience from a clinical chief position and preferably with a role as the education responsible chief physician. Additionally, you may already have relevant further education, preferably at the diploma/master level in medical pedagogy, leadership or related areas.

We emphasize that you

• have strong strategic and organizational understanding and can translate high-level goals into concrete development initiatives
• can advise and collaborate closely with health and hospital leadership, department management and education teams
• have experience with quality development, coordination and follow-up on educational initiatives based on data and evaluations
• have extensive experience and insight within medical postgraduate education, education leadership and development of attractive learning environments
• work in a structured and professional manner with case processing and handling of complex educational programs
• can build relationships and represent the organization securely in cross-cutting, regional and national collaboration fora
• are good at building networks and can work in a field with different collaborators across professions and organizations
• are development-oriented and have decisiveness as well as the ability to handle and navigate in larger changes
• As a person you have strong engagement and the courage to stand firm, while you must be listening, respectful, empathetic and inclusive, and above all have a curious and open approach.

Salary and terms of employment

The position is 37 hours per week.

The position reports to the HR manager, Janni Hedegaard, and has professional reference to the medical director. Employment is on the basis of collective agreement after agreement between Danish Regions and the Association of Specialist Doctors regarding medical managers.

Further information

If you would like to know more or have questions, you are welcome to contact HR manager Janni Hedegaard at tel. 3038 7190.

Also see the job and function description

Your application

The application deadline is 25 October 2026.

The first interview is expected to be held on 4 November and the second on 11 November.

About us

We offer an exciting position with a very broad contact surface and strong teamwork in an organization with local, national and international orientation that plays a significant strategic role for the healthcare system in Denmark. The hospital staff is AUH’s overall administrative support function with about 300 employees organized in specialized professional areas. We work closely across and support both operations and development in the entire organization.

We emphasize high professionalism, shared responsibility and strong collaboration with the clinic – always with the citizen and patient at the center. We are a flexible workplace with office facilities at AUH and at Hedeager 1-3.

Read more about us here .

The position is initially a full-time position.

As Region Midtjylland continually implements savings and reorganizations, employees in redeployment who apply for the position will have priority.

Region Midtjylland is, in accordance with the EU’s directive on wage transparency which took effect on 7 June 2026, obliged to inform you about starting salary or a range of starting salary for a position before offering employment.

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