Deputy Director of Credit

Do you bring solid leadership experience, and are you strategically minded? Do you thrive with a large societal responsibility, can you lead through leaders and create improvements in a large organization that is in constant change and every day lifts a central task for security in Denmark? If the answers are yes, you can apply for the position as Vice Regional Director in Fængselskreds Vest.

Your responsibilities

The vice regional director focuses on operations and has responsibility to professionalize the implementation of political and strategic decisions across the circuit.

One of the many important tasks for the vice regional director is to be the circuit director's closest advisor in ensuring compliance with rules (compliance) and good governance across the prison circuit.

Through the daily management of the office heads for Client Case Processing, Security, Crime Prevention, Health, Control and Supervision as well as the secretariat, there is ongoing work with knowledge sharing, leadership coaching and common solutions to general and concrete operational issues. This requires a strong insight into areas such as confinement of punishment, security and crime prevention.

This insight is also important in the work with Penal Reform, where the implementation of several important initiatives is anchored in the vice regional director's area. This thus requires a substantial focus on progress and implementation as well as the ability to think across both the organization and the tasks.

The vice regional director reports to the circuit director and is his deputy. As vice regional director you thus join the circuit's top management and in close collaboration with the Danish Prisons Agency and Prison Circle East. The task is to jointly ensure that imprisonment and supervision etc. are carried out at a uniform high professional level across Denmark's Prisons.

As vice regional director you – together with the rest of the management – will be guarantor that our work is of high quality and in accordance with the rules in the field, just as you must contribute to the prison circle entering into a well-functioning cooperation with our many partners, including police, municipalities, health services etc.

As vice regional director you will therefore have an ongoing and close dialogue with the other top management, with the prison directors, with the circuit office heads and not least with both Fængselskreds Øst and the Danish Prisons Agency.

About you

You have a relevant academic education and solid managerial experience at a strategic level from one or more larger organizations, preferably a public organization. It is expected that you have the necessary insight into and understanding of the work area of Denmark's Prisons and the Ministry of Justice.

We also expect that you

• Have experience with execution, management and implementation of large projects in a politically governed organization
• Have experience with managing a large organization
• Have knowledge of – and preferably experience with - imprisonment
• Are innovative, results-oriented and can create overview, structure and momentum in a diverse public authority under ongoing change
• Can combine the requirement for efficiency with the development of a good and attractive workplace, while ensuring efficient and service-oriented operations
• Have experience in leading other leaders and working in an organization with many different employee groups
• Have exceptionally strong leadership skills, a trust-building leadership style and good collaboration skills
• Have good abilities for internal and external communication

You will become part of a strong interdisciplinary environment at the circuit office in Fængselskreds Vest. We emphasize high professionalism and strong governance competencies and an open and humorous working environment. We also emphasize that our busy daily work is accompanied by a good tone, helpfulness toward each other, and the desire to be part of a team.

About us

Denmark's Prisons fall under the Ministry of Justice and have as their main task to contribute to reducing crime by enforcing the penalties set by the courts. We are thus created to reduce crime and create safety in society. At the same time we run a range of crime-prevention initiatives where we create the framework for those convicted who want to make an effort to have a life without crime.

Fængselskreds Vest consists of a circuit office, open and closed prisons, remand centers and supervision, ankle-monitoring departments, as well as a deportation center distributed across Jutland and Funen.

We are about 2,500 employees in Fængselskreds Vest.

For more information about Denmark's Prisons, please refer to the website www.danmarksfængsler.dk

Salary and terms of employment

Employment and remuneration are on collective agreement terms in accordance with the framework agreement on contract employment of managers in the state with placement in pay grade 2. Link to the framework agreement on contract employment of managers in the state: 012-26.pdf . If you are already employed as a civil servant, you may retain the employment as a civil servant. In addition, allowances may be agreed depending on experience and qualifications, and a fixed-term allowance.

The position is offered for a fixed term and as soon as possible.

The employment area is Denmark's Prisons. The workplace is the Circuit Office in Fængselskreds Vest, Mosevej 5, 8240 Risskov.

Security clearance is a prerequisite for employment, just as you must be able to maintain your security clearance throughout your employment.

The application

You apply for the position electronically via the link “Søg stillingen”.

Your application with CV, documentation of education and previous experience must be received no later than Monday 19 October 2026.

For already appointed civil servants, the application should be addressed to the King.

We expect to conduct interviews in weeks 43-44.

If you have questions about the vice regional director position in Fængselskreds Vest, you are welcome to contact Circuit Director Michael Frølich at telephone 7255 9189.

Denmark's Prisons see diversity as a strength and encourage all interested candidates regardless of personal background to apply.