Office Manager sought for the Department of Health and People with Disabilities

Are you an experienced and empathetic personnel leader who achieves results through good and structured management? Then we have a position for you in the Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities.

Your main task will be to ensure professional coordination, management, and leadership support within the minister and departmental services. You will also ensure financial management, HR and organizational development, translations, and quality assurance of good case handling.

As the office manager in the Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities, you are close to the decisions and can make a decisive difference in the health and disability sector.

The Office Management Secretariat

The office's tasks vary across a wide range and include, among other things:

• Professional management support for the minister and the department's management forum.
• Financial management for the department and follow-up.
• Preparation and execution of strategies from self-government to the department, internal communication, and coordination of inquiries in the main email and other incoming communication.
• Coordinator for organizational/management development in the department, servicing LSSU, and HR work including onboarding and retention.
• Manage and coordinate translation and interpretation tasks.

Your area of responsibility

• You will have daily responsibility for personnel management in the Management Secretariat.
• Responsible for the office's finances, planning, translations, and quality assurance of these, prioritization, and management in your own office.
• Responsible for processing proposals to the Naalakkersuisut from professional departments.
• Responsible for processing Inatsisartut matters from Naalakkersuisut to Inatsisartut.
• Coordination of meetings between Naalakkersuisut and Inatsisartut.
• Servicing the professional departments; such as ticket booking, Acubiz registration, first approval.
• Responsible for ongoing optimization of case flows in and out of the professional areas.
• Additionally, you will have important hands-on tasks such as quality assurance of proposals, notes, and cases for the minister and ad-hoc tasks from the department head, HR-related tasks, etc.
  
  

We expect that:

You have several years of leadership experience from a similar position in the public sector and can achieve
results in professionally complex areas in a politically governed organization. It is an advantage if you have experience in the health sector or can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex professional area.

We value present and trust-based leadership and would like your leadership style to achieve results through professionalism, collaboration, accountability, and vision. You gain energy from working at a distinctly high pace, where new and challenging tasks arise daily.

In addition, we expect you to:

• Have a relevant education at the bachelor's or master's level.
• Be proficient in Greenlandic and Danish in speech and writing.
• Be experienced in using the self-government's IT systems including IRIS, Acubiz, and Management Info.
• Be able to meet deadlines.
• Be able to manage according to central goals and continuously build and streamline the department's processes.
• Have well-developed communication skills and be able to translate and convey information to the entire department.
• Master the balance between delegating tasks and maintaining an overall overview while ensuring high professional quality on all tasks that land every time.
• Be relationship-building in relation to your own employees, top management, and internal stakeholders in the health sector as well as external partners.

Salary and employment conditions
The position is currently salary-fixed corresponding to 36. The salary with fixed salary components and your contribution to pension in LR 36 amounts to DKK 57,531 monthly and DKK 690,372 annually as of April 1, 2026.

Employment will initially be on collective agreement terms, where an applicant who may already be a civil servant under the civil servant laws for the public Greenland can be employed on civil servant terms.

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for recruitment and relocation, according to the collective agreement in force at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.


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