Do you want to drive strategic development across missions at Steno Diabetes Center Odense?

Do you have solid experience in leading complex projects and programs, strong analytical capabilities and a sense of how strategy is transformed into action? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you - We are seeking an experienced specialist or chief consultant for a position as mission coordinator in SDCO. Steno Diabetes Center Odense (SDCO) is entering a new phase, where we, under the name Steno Diabetes Center Syddanmark (SDC Syd), will work mission-driven to create better treatment, better lives with diabetes and strengthened prevention.

We are looking for an experienced and strategically strong profile with solid experience in project and program management, who will play a central role in developing and supporting our new mission-driven way of working. The position is placed in the center's secretariat and involves close collaboration with the management as well as a broad circle of partners across the health sector.

A central role in the development of SDC Syd

In SDC Syd we shall deliver results through research, innovation and development in close collaboration with among others. hospitals, general practice, municipalities and universities. This sets new requirements for our ability to prioritise, lead and follow up on initiatives across organizations and professional domains.

You will have a key role in developing the center's mission-driven way of working and portfolio management, so strategic ambitions are translated into coherent initiatives with clear goals, progress and results. It involves among other things creating an overview of programs and projects, linking activities and resources to our missions and ensuring a solid basis for strategic priorities and systematic follow-up on progress, results and value creation.

Your main tasks

You will, among other things

• Develop and support portfolio management with an overview of programs, projects, resources, progress and results.
• Strengthen data-driven management by translating data and knowledge into relevant management information and decision basis.
• Take care of project and program management as needed for selected strategic development initiatives, including ensuring progress, coordination and results in collaboration with relevant actors across organizations and professional domains.
• Drive complex strategic development tasks , including development of processes, management tools and new ways of working.
• Support the leadership's strategic work through analyses, decision briefs, prioritization basis and follow-up.
• Contribute to coherence and coordination between the center's missions, regional partners and the national Steno collaboration.

You will become part of a secretariat where tasks are solved in close collaboration, but where you also will have considerable independent responsibility to drive development processes forward.

We are looking for an experienced and analytically strong profile

You have a relevant academic education and at least five years of relevant professional experience. We place particular emphasis on the following:

• Solid experience with project and program management , including documented results from complex projects or programs with many stakeholders and organizational interests.
• Strong strategic and analytical competences and the ability to navigate in high complexity, create overview and translate strategic ambitions into concrete actions.
• Good data understanding and experience with using data, indicators and management information for follow-up, prioritization and decision support.
• In-depth knowledge of the health sector , including understanding of organization, governance and collaboration across sectors and disciplinary areas.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience in producing sharp decision briefs for executive level.

It is an advantage if you have worked with portfolio management, organizational development or larger strategic transformation processes.

You are independent, solution-oriented and good at collaborating

We are looking for a colleague who thrives with responsibility and can create progress, even when tasks are complex and the way forward is not yet fully defined.

You work structured, take initiative and are able to bring together different perspectives to common solutions. You are good at building relationships and creating followership without necessarily having formal managerial authority.

At the same time, we attach importance to you having a good demeanor, a constructive approach to challenges and a desire to contribute to a strong collegial community. With us, professional ambition and job satisfaction go hand in hand.

We offer

You will become part of an ambitious organization with an important societal task and a strong ambition to create noticeable improvements for people with diabetes.

We offer a position of great strategic importance, a high degree of independence and the possibility to influence the development of a new, mission-driven organization. You will have a broad collaboration surface, professionally strong colleagues and a daily life where strategic decisions must be translated into concrete development.

About Steno Diabetes Center Odense

Steno Diabetes Center Odense works to improve life for people with diabetes through research, treatment, prevention, competence development and cross-sector collaboration.

In the coming funding period, the center will be developed into SDC Syd with a strengthened regional perspective and three shared missions: better treatment, a better life with diabetes and more effective prevention.

Employment terms and application

The position is a full-time role with employment as a specialist consultant or chief consultant depending on qualifications and experience.

Salary and employment terms for the position follow the agreement for academics – collective agreement (no. 33.01.1). The starting salary for the position can be found via the following link: Starting salary for positions in Region of Southern Denmark

In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include negotiable allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

The employment is typically subject to a 3-month probationary period. The probation period does not apply if you are already employed in another position in the Region of Southern Denmark.

Application deadline: Monday, 9 November 2026

Expected to conduct interviews: Thursday, 12 November 2026.

Start date: As soon as possible and no later than 1 January 2027.

Workplace: Steno Diabetes Center Odense, Hospitalsringen 92, 5260 Odense S.

Additional information: Contact Secretariat and Development Manager Ellen Bjerre Zacho, tel. 24835717 or email: [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you.