AC Advisor or Specialist Consultant for the Landslide Group

The Department of Geology is seeking one or two AC employees or special consultants for the Mountain Range Group.

Are you interested in working with landslide monitoring, mapping, and risk analyses? Then you might be the person we need for the monitoring effort in the Department of Geology.

About the position

The Avalanche Group is dedicated to increasing community safety against avalanches and related events such as tsunami surges. You will be part of a small team in a rapidly developing area. We are looking for a colleague with relevant skills to strengthen our team and contribute to avalanche monitoring. Some travel activities and fieldwork are to be expected throughout the year.

Your tasks will include among other things:

• Daily monitoring of rockslide areas using a monitoring system
• Monthly publication of situation assessments
• Regional screening for potentially unstable rock masses
• Participate in the development and implementation of monitoring strategies and risk analyses in collaboration with relevant authorities, local communities, and international partners.
• Update and further develop the website
• Plan and conduct fieldwork, including measurements with drones and seismic equipment.
• Quality assurance, analysis, organization, and communication of collected field data
• Advise decision-makers
• Implement information campaigns and build capacity for a nationwide integrated risk management for landslide hazards.
• Collaboration with research environments to develop monitoring efforts tailored to Greenlandic conditions.

You do not need to meet all the points below, but we expect that you can see yourself in most of them:

• relevant professional education, for example geologist, geographer, remote sensing specialist, engineer or similar.
• Has knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS) and/or programming.
• Preferably has experience with risk management and natural hazards.
• Has good communication skills in Greenlandic, Danish, and English.

• You are committed and good at collaborating.
• You work independently and meet deadlines.
• You have knowledge of Greenlandic social conditions.
• Has experience or desire to conduct fieldwork in remote regions

We are about 40 employees in the Department of Business and Minerals. The position is organizationally located in the Department of Geology, which consists of 1 department head and 11 geoscientific employees.

The Department of Geology is the primary geoscientific advisor on raw materials for the Government of Greenland.

You can read more about the Department at https://govmin.gl/ and about the work of the landslide group at https://govmin.gl/da/fjeldskred/.

We offer:

• An exciting, challenging, and versatile job
• A dynamic and proactive department with a strong sense of unity.
• Opportunities for influence over your work tasks
• Opportunities for further education

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for joining and leaving as well as relocation of personal belongings, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement in effect at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

The working hours are, as a starting point, 40 hours a week.

Housing

No staff housing is allocated for the position. If an applicant already has staff housing through employment in the Self-Government, the right to the allocated staff housing is retained. The staff housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon termination of the employment relationship.

Further information

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact department head Romain Meyer at (+299) 34 68 17, email rnmr@nanoq.gl.

Commencement on October 1, 2026, or by further agreement.