Department Head for Digital Service

Lead a socially critical Digital Service Department

Do you want to lead the digital platforms that citizens, employees, and authorities rely on – and develop a well-functioning department with respect for what already works?

Digital Service is a well-managed department with control over processes, responsibilities, and deliveries. Your task will therefore not be to start from scratch, but to create the next development: safeguard the solid operations, strengthen collaboration, and translate new needs into secure, user-friendly, and coherent digital solutions.

A leadership role with visible significance

Digital Service manages and further develops central digital service and communication platforms across the public sector. This includes, among others, sullissivik.gl, naalakkersuisut.gl, the Self-Government's intranet, and the platform for common public websites. The platforms have different target groups and content owners, but one common ambition: to make public information and digital services accessible, coherent, and reliable.

It will be to your advantage if you:

• can maintain and develop a high professional level
• see leadership as the most important professional tool, and not just a title
• are able to spar with project managers, business consultants, and the rest of the management in the Agency for Digitalization
• have good communication skills, both written and verbal
• have in-depth knowledge of societal conditions and the public sector
• can document experience in project management

As department head, you will have personnel, operations, development, and budget responsibilities for an area of great societal importance. You report to the Director General and contribute to the overall management and strategic direction of the Agency for Digitalization.

Your most important task

You must create progress with care. The department functions well, and the employees have established robust workflows and a strong professional practice. You therefore meet the organization with curiosity, listen to experiences, and protect the quality and stability that has been built. At the same time, you set direction, prioritize clearly, and develop the department in line with new user needs, requirements, and technological opportunities.

This requires a leader who can both hold firm and move forward – and who knows that lasting development is created together with employees, content owners, authorities, municipalities, and suppliers.

Your central areas of responsibility

• Ensure stable, secure, and professional operations as well as a prioritized further development of the department's platforms and services.
• Lead, motivate, and develop employees and create clear frameworks for responsibility, professionalism, well-being, and collaboration.
• Safeguard documented processes, governance, and quality assurance – and improve them when there is a clear need and a shared ownership.
• Develop and follow the department's roadmap, goals, budget, and resource prioritization in close connection with the agency's strategy.
• Create a common direction among many stakeholders and content owners across sullissivik.gl, naalakkersuisut.gl, the intranet, and the common public website platform.
• Ensure clear roles, timely involvement, and good communication across the Self-Government, municipalities, and other common public collaboration partners.

A varied everyday life in a professionally exciting environment

We offer an exciting position with varied tasks and the opportunity to become part of a professionally strong and development-oriented environment. You will have both responsibility for daily management and the opportunity to work closely on the department's specific professional deliveries.

As department head, you will be part of – and will also, as needed, serve as a project resource in – new, planned, and ongoing projects in the department, including projects where funding is sought from PDA. This gives you the opportunity to actively contribute with managerial, organizational, and professional sparring from the early considerations to implementation and stable operations.

Questions
If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Director General René Kvist at rekv@nanoq.gl

Application deadline
The application deadline is September 28, 2026.

The hiring committee reserves the right to invite for preliminary interviews before the deadline expires.

Interviews are expected to be held on September 29-30, 2026, so applicants are requested to be ready to be called in at short notice on those dates.

Salary and employment conditions
The position is currently salary-fixed corresponding to 38. The salary with fixed salary components and own contribution to pension in LR 38 amounts to DKK 64,048 monthly and DKK 768,576 annually as of April 1, yyyy.

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for relocation and moving expenses, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement applicable at the time of appointment between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

The position is desired to be filled from November 1, 2026, or by agreement.

It is an expectation for the employment that you can be security cleared, and that the security clearance can be maintained throughout your employment.

Initially, employment will be on collective agreement terms, where applicants who may already be civil servants under the civil servant laws for the public Greenland may be employed under civil servant terms.

For the position, there is no maximum service time set, and the provisions on compensation for overtime and the provisions on compensation for lost days off do not apply; the working hours are initially 40 hours weekly.

Housing
An unfurnished staff housing can be allocated for the position according to the applicable rules at any time. Housing cannot be allocated to individuals who already have staff housing or another housing owned by the municipality or the Government of Greenland. Rent and deposit are paid according to the applicable rules for the allocated housing. The staff housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon termination of the employment relationship.

Rent and housing standards may vary depending on the age of the housing, ownership conditions, etc. There may be waiting time for the allocation of permanent staff housing, which is why temporary accommodation may occur, including in smaller co-housing communities or hotel apartments, for which taxation will apply. It is not possible to keep larger pets such as dogs or cats in staff or temporary housing.

About us
The Agency for Digitalization sets the direction for a secure digital future and for Greenlandic society by leading the development of secure, standardized digital solutions.

In the Agency for Digitalization, we work both with the digitalization of Greenland and IT operations of the Government of Greenland. The agency's areas of responsibility are extensive, as are the interests and expectations for the agency's timely deliveries. We are proud to take on the overall responsibility for the digitalization of Greenland, and it is a task we approach with great humility. This places demands on both our professionalism and personal competencies and gives us a busy and diverse everyday life. Therefore, we work purposefully with high employee well-being through good collaboration skills with respect for diversity both professionally and personally - and focus on a high level of integrity in task resolution.

You can read more about the agency and the national digitalization strategy at www.digitalimik.gl