Benefits Caseworker for Job and Benefits, 1-year fixed-term appointment

Our professionally strong and engaged benefits case workers in Job and Benefit are seeking a new colleague who, like them, is engaged, curious, listening, and professional.

If you are passionate about working with people, legislation and finance, then you are the person we are looking for as our new colleague.

Job and Benefit consists of 30 employees, distributed across 3 teams. The department is part of Labour Market and Social.

You will work with various administrative tasks in the benefits area, as well as make decisions based on legislation and prevailing legal practice. It is important that you work focused on the core task, where you, together with your colleagues, help ensure that citizens receive the right benefit on time.

We place great emphasis on your ability to engage in professional collaboration. Our new colleague should deliver commitment to the task and be stable and flexible. You are able to meet citizens at eye level with a focus on a positive and constructive approach. You should possess the ability to work independently, take initiative and collaborate on our shared core task. Whether internally in the department or across the organization, where Job and Benefit is a central partner.

You will join the task solving together with colleagues in the Cash Assistance Team, professional coordinators and the department head. It is important that you dare to take the initiative and focus on contributing to the joint task solution in the team.

Our department is characterized by good internal collaboration and that we help each other to achieve our common task solution.

Job function

• Make decisions on applications and ongoing cases
• Citizen service by phone, in person and digitally
• Guidance and advice to citizens
• Diverse administrative tasks
• You can translate statutory text into reality according to applicable practice
• Process appeals

Professional competences

• You are a social worker or office-trained with a specialization in public administration
• Experience with the benefits area and the employment area
• Knowledge of SBSYS, Fasit, KY is an advantage
• Have experience with case processing and administrative practice
• Have knowledge of note obligation, party hearings, decisions and appeals handling
• Know what it is like to work in a politically governed organization
• Can contribute to the ongoing development of the department's professionalism and workflows

Personal competences

• Have good collaboration skills - both in your team and cross-disciplinary across the entire organization
• Have good communication skills - both written and spoken
• You contribute to a good working environment and can maintain calm and an overview in a busy daily routine
• Come with a good mood and want to work in an informal department
• You are flexible and stable

You will be welcomed by competent and engaged colleagues. We look forward to hearing what you can contribute professionally and personally in relation to the work in the area.

Further information

If you would like to hear more about the position, you are very welcome to contact the department head, Marianne Woldemar, at telephone number 51 46 34 58.

The position is 25 hours distributed over 4 days, the hours are as follows

Monday 8-14, Tuesday 8-14, Wednesday 8-14 and Thursday 10-17

Salary and employment are according to the applicable collective agreement after agreement with the negotiating organization and the principles in Ny løn – HK or DS.

The workplace is Fælleden 1, 8660 Skanderborg.

Application deadline

Monday, 19 October 2026 at 12:00.

Interviews will be held on Friday, 23 October 2026.

Employment: 1 December 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Salary and employment conditions

Salary and employment conditions are determined according to the applicable collective agreement, including the fixed provisions regarding local pay formation. You can find information about the salary level in Skanderborg Municipality via this link: KRL . Here you will also find information about base salary and pension. In addition to the base salary, the pay may include negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

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