VIA is seeking a proactive and experienced management partner for the Research Area for Health and Society

Do you want to help support a research area in exciting development? Can you create overview, structure and coherence? And do you have the courage to work with a broad palette of operational and management-support tasks?

Then you may be the management partner we are looking for in the Research Area for Health and Society – to join our management partner team, which collectively supports the head of research, four center leaders and the area’s administrative operations.

Become part of an attractive workplace

We are looking for an outward-looking, service-minded and solution-oriented employee who finds value in contributing to getting large as well as small tasks to run smoothly in a growing research area. If you become part of VIA, you also become part of an exciting educational and research institution that is constantly moving and has grand ambitions for our research. We offer good colleagues, an informal style and well-functioning working conditions with a high degree of flexibility and responsibility.

The management partner’s role

As a management partner you will have a broad range of tasks across the Research Area for Health and Society, e.g.:

• Be a proactive team player and trusted sparring partner for the head of research and center leaders – with structured follow-up, sparring and administrative support for planning processes, activities and meetings.
• Contribute to planning and administrative execution of organizational and development processes.
• Manage the administrative operations of the centers in close collaboration with the center leaders.
• Handle daily administrative and practical ad hoc tasks for the head of research, center leaders and center staff.
• Support internal and external communication in close collaboration with the head of research and center leaders.
• Plan and coordinate workshops, seminars, meetings and knowledge dissemination events.
• Prepare case materials, notes and presentations.
• Support the research area’s strategic development, including contribute to implementation and follow-up on strategic initiatives.
• Ensure systematic follow-up on action plans, decisions and deadlines.
• Contribute to budget and financial follow-up, including handling procurement, invoice processing, reimbursements etc.

Your competencies

Your educational background may be varied, but you are typically expected to have a master’s degree and experience with administrative management support at an educational and research institution.

In addition, you are service-minded and want to work in a large organization with many different colleagues, internal partners, where you take on a broad range of varied tasks in close collaboration with the Research Area’s other management partner.

As a person, you are autonomous in your work, and you thrive on being proactive and taking responsibility for solving the tasks. Because the tasks are diverse, it is a condition that you continuously are open to learning and developing new competencies. Finally, it is essential that you have a sense of planning, structure and processes. You work without problems across different IT systems and can thrive in a job where there are sometimes many balls and agendas in the air.

About the Research Area for Health and Society

The Research Area for Health and Society develops, produces and disseminates new knowledge that can contribute to new health and social science solutions for society. See more about our research area here: www.via.dk/forskning

We carry out applied and practice-oriented research in collaboration with VIA’s other research environments, public and private partners nationally and internationally. Our knowledge and dissemination should strengthen VIA’s education programs so that the latest research and knowledge production helps education at VIA to match and create value in practice.

The research area currently has approx. 25 permanent researchers and about 120 hourly-associated staff from VIA’s programs distributed under the head of research in four research centers, each with its own center leader.

Terms of employment

Employment is according to the applicable collective agreement for academics in the state, with placement as AC-fuldmægtig (AC officer).

The position is 37 hours per week.

Your primary workplace is VIA Campus Aarhus N, Hedeager 2, 8200 Aarhus N. In addition, activities at VIA’s other locations in Region Midtjylland must be expected.

We hope you can start no later than 1 February 2027. The application deadline is 18 November 2026.

We expect to hold the recruitment interviews in early December.

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the head of research Andreas Rasch-Christensen at 87551712 or the management partner Rikke Kristensen at 87551938.

WE are VIA

VIA is one of Denmark’s largest educational institutions with locations across Region Midtjylland. We educate and further-educate teachers, nurses, engineers, designers and many more. We develop education in close collaboration with practice. We are a workplace with flexibility, freedom and good opportunities for development. If you are curious about what it is like to work at VIA, you can read some of our stories here .

At VIA University College we value competence and talent in all forms. We believe in the strength of diversity and welcome everyone, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity or background. We therefore encourage everyone to apply for the position and become part of an inclusive community.

Read more about VIA University College at  http://www.via.dk/

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