Department Manager

Department manager sought for the School Department of Municipality of Sermersooq

The Municipality of Sermersooq is seeking a skilled and dedicated department manager for the Administration for Children and Schools under the school department.

Do you want to help develop and ensure quality in the school sector? Are you passionate about enhancing the quality in schools and ensuring that children have the best opportunities for development and well-being? Then you have the chance now.

We are looking for a department head for the school department.

Our goal is to ensure that all children have the best opportunities for development. This happens in close collaboration between schools, daycare institutions, and parents or other caregivers. Together, we ensure that all children thrive and develop. As a department leader, you must ensure professionalism in the department and support the consultants in providing the best advice and guidance to the schools. You, along with the head of the department, must translate political decisions into concrete solutions in the school and after-school care areas.

You will report to the Head of Schools and MISI and will have four school consultants and three learning consultants in your team.

The administration works based on the objectives of

to create curious, resilient, healthy, and happy children

to have Greenland's best daycare institutions and schools that include all children

·to have qualified and visionary staff who understand their responsibilities and live up to them.

We work according to a positive and appreciative view of children, believing that every child is unique and has competencies, resources, and developmental potentials. This is what the department leader should strive for.

We offer:

A challenging job with opportunities to shape the content yourself and take on significant independent responsibility in an organization undergoing development and change. We emphasize a solid onboarding process for both the job and workplace and strive to ensure a good collaborative environment with close managerial support as well as room for initiative and creativity.

The position:

As the department head in the School Department, you will play a central role in leading, developing, ensuring high professionalism, and collaborating within the School Department, as well as ensuring interdisciplinary collaboration across departments.

Create a good working environment for the employees and good service for the citizens.

Your core task will be to support and develop the educational and developmental work in the school area together with the educational consultants. As a department leader, your role will be to facilitate and support the processes in close collaboration with school consultants and learning consultants, as well as with the leaders in the area and other relevant partners. This is a position with a high degree of freedom and accompanying responsibility, where you have ample opportunity to shape everyday life yourself.

Your tasks:

·Personnel management of consultants

Professional sparring, support, and guidance for consultants and AKO/SPO/FRO leaders

Plan courses and organize educational theme days.

·Engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with other departments/administrations and external partners.

·Contribute to the preparation of program proposals for renovation, conversion, and new construction.

·Management of the administrative staff, including daily management (meetings, departmental meetings, illness, etc.),

·Coordination of tasks

·Onboarding of new employees

·MUS

Travel coordination

Requirements and expectations for the department manager:

We are looking for a department leader with a teaching degree supplemented by further education - preferably with an advanced degree, leadership experience, or administrative experience within the school sector. You should have strong collaboration skills, be adaptable, and be able to navigate in an organization under development. In addition, you should have a good overview of the department's competencies, resources, and development opportunities.

Personal qualities and competencies

As a department manager, we expect you to be:

Open and approachable with strong relational skills

A coordinator who can lead and distribute the many tasks of the department.

A motivating leader who promotes job satisfaction and creates a good working environment.

Forward-looking and proactive, always ahead of the development.

Reflective and constructive, both when giving and receiving feedback.

Solution-oriented, with the ability to tackle challenges and find the best solutions.

You must ensure that the school department functions as a team where everyone contributes to achieving the common goals.

Criminal and Child Certificate:

The position is covered by the law on the obligation to obtain a criminal record and child certificate. According to the law, employment can only begin once the municipality has received a satisfactory criminal record and child certificate. We must therefore point out that the start date can only be agreed upon once the municipality has received the child certificate from the national police and the criminal record from the police.

The child certificate is obtained by the municipality with the consent of the individual, while the criminal record is obtained by the individual from the police.

Salary and employment conditions:

Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with the applicable agreement between the Government of Greenland, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement in force at the time of appointment between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

The employment will be subject to a 3-month probation period.

Housing:

No staff accommodation can be provided for the position.

Further information can be obtained from:

If the position interests you, you are welcome to contact the Head of Department Akitsinnguaq Lulu Jensen for further information about the position and associated tasks at phone +299 36 73 26 or email: ajla@sermersooq.gl

Application:

Applications marked with Job no. 125-26, along with the educational certificate and documentation of previous employment, must be uploaded before the deadline expires.

How to apply:

Applications must be submitted electronically via the link at the bottom of this page, where you can attach your application and CV.

We do not accept applications in paper or emails, please send your application electronically via the job posting.

Application deadline: February 26, 2026

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