Department Manager in the Disability Sector in Nanortalik

Department Leader in the Disability Area in Nanortalik

Position as department leader

in the disability area in Nanortalik

A position as department leader in Nanortalik's Living Arrangements, sheltered workshop, and support staff is available for appointment from December 1, 2026, or by further agreement.

If you want to help make a difference for our residents and citizens, then you are exactly who we are looking for as our new colleague.

Organizationally, the area falls under the social administration's Disability Area in the Municipality of Kujalleq, where the nearest leader is the disability coordinator for living arrangements and sheltered workshops as well as support staff.

The content of the position includes:

·Ensure daily operations and coordination of housing units for citizens with disabilities, activity - social center in Nanortalik

·Supervise and coordinate support work in the housing units

·Supervise and coordinate support staff work for citizens living in their own homes

·Ensure that applications are processed according to adopted service - and quality standards

·Ensure continuous on-the-job training in the support staff area as well as development of the area and enhance quality

·Ensure outreach work and have insight into cross-sector collaboration, where citizens need support staff

·Ensure continuous and close interdisciplinary collaboration with internal and external partners

·Ensure to prepare an annual report for the Disability Coordinator

We expect the following qualifications;

• That you are a trained social educator or similar education
• That you have experience in leadership
• That you have experience in coordinating support staff
• That you possess responsibility and independence for solving the task, and have good ideas and initiative for new initiatives, and are a good planner
• That you have experience with administrative tasks, and finance, and good IT skills
• That you possess good communication and good message dissemination skills, and are goal-oriented
• That you have the necessary knowledge of case processing, and possess good formulation skills both written and orally in Greenlandic and Danish

We offer;

• A challenging and varied and sometimes busy job, where you will have the opportunity to influence the area and development in the area
• Opportunity for personal and professional development in close collaboration with other department leaders in the Municipality of Kujalleq
• Independence and responsibility and co-determination in the area

Employment and remuneration:

Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with the applicable collective agreement for the Greenland Self-Government and in the Municipalities at the time of appointment. For external applicants, housing will be provided according to family size, as well as moving and travel expenses will be covered according to applicable rules

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

Criminal record:

The position is subject to the law on the obligation to obtain a child certificate and criminal record. According to the law, employment can only begin when the Municipality has received the certificates

Further information and job description can be obtained from Disability Coordinator Pipaluk Thomassen pith@kujalleq.gl

Applications with information about previous employment and educational certificates, etc. must be submitted to the municipality no later than October 25, 2026

NOTE: We do not accept applications in paper or emails, please send your application as a PDF file electronically with the job posting.

”With a focus on higher public health, the Municipality of Kujalleq has implemented a smoke-free working time at all municipal workplaces. This is effective from January 1, 2018. Further information can be obtained from the HR department”

Application deadline: October 25, 2026