Administration Manager Narsaq

Administration Manager Narsaq

Administration Manager for Narsaq

Do you want to lead the local administration in Narsaq and help create a well-functioning, present, and cohesive municipality?

The Municipality of Kujalleq is looking for an engaged and proactive administration manager for Narsaq. You will have a central leadership role responsible for ensuring an effective local administration, good citizen service, and strong collaboration across the municipality's professional areas.

As the administration manager, you will be an important link between citizens, employees, management, and the political level. You must be visible in the organization and in the local community while being able to translate the municipality's goals and decisions into local action.

We are therefore looking for a leader who can create an overview, set direction, and get people to work together.

A central role in Narsaq

As the administration manager, you have overall responsibility for the local administration and citizen service in Narsaq and the associated settlements.

You will work closely with the management team, department heads, professional leaders, and other leaders in the Municipality of Kujalleq. An important part of your work will be to create coherence between the municipality's various professional areas while ensuring that decisions are made as close to the citizens as possible within the applicable frameworks.

Your daily work will be diverse. You will work with leadership, finance, political servicing, coordination, development, and specific issues that require you to make decisions and maintain an overview.

Your most important areas of responsibility

• As the administration manager, you will be responsible for:
• leading and developing the local administration and citizen service
• ensuring professional, effective, and welcoming service to citizens
• creating good collaboration across the municipality's administrations and professional areas
• ensuring financial management, budget follow-up, and responsible use of resources
• following up on quality, documentation, workflows, and administrative procedures
• ensuring that applicable legislation, rules, and municipal guidelines are followed
• identifying professional and organizational challenges and ensuring follow-up
• supporting the implementation of political decisions and the municipality's strategic goals
• contributing to development projects and improvements in municipal service
• ensuring good internal communication and relevant information to management and other leaders.

You will also be responsible for the local citizen service function, including budget responsibility, as well as leadership responsibility for relevant employees in the administration.

Close to political work and the local community

The position also involves political and local coordination.

You will collaborate with the secretariat regarding the village boards in Narsaq's associated settlements and with relevant professional areas regarding the local council in Narsaq. You will also contribute to case presentations and recommendations, as well as coordination and practical preparation of political activities and events in Narsaq and the settlements.

As the administration manager, it is important that you have your finger on the pulse. You should be interested in what is happening among citizens, employees, and the local community, and be able to bring this knowledge constructively into the municipality's work.

Who are you?

We envision that you have leadership experience and preferably a relevant leadership education. You do not necessarily need to check off everything from day one. The most important thing is that you can take responsibility, build trust, and set direction.

We particularly emphasize that you:

• have experience with personnel management and can create engagement and followership
• have an understanding of finance, budgeting, and accounting
• have experience with or understanding of public administration and relevant legislation
• work in a structured manner and can maintain an overview, even when there are many tasks
• can make decisions and follow them through
• communicate clearly and respectfully
• see the opportunities in interdisciplinary collaboration
• are development-oriented and open to new working methods
• meet employees, citizens, and partners with a respectful and solution-oriented approach.

It is an advantage if you have experience from a politically led organization and knowledge of Greenlandic societal conditions.

We offer

You will receive an exciting and responsible leadership position with a wide contact surface and the opportunity to have a real impact on municipal service and development in Narsaq.

You will be part of the overall management organization of the Municipality of Kujalleq and will have close collaboration with both the administrative and political leadership.

At the same time, you will have a workplace in Narsaq – in the midst of South Greenland's unique nature and a local community with strong relationships between the town and the settlements.

About the Municipality of Kujalleq

The Municipality of Kujalleq is Greenland's southernmost municipality and includes the towns of Nanortalik, Qaqortoq, and Narsaq as well as the municipality's settlements and sheep farming locations.

The municipality covers a large geographical area, and the distances make local presence, collaboration, and the ability to find practical solutions particularly important.

The business community spans, among other things, fishing, tourism, agriculture, and other local businesses. As the administration manager in Narsaq, you will therefore be part of a vibrant local community and a municipality with both opportunities and complex tasks.

Salary and employment conditions

The position is classified under salary framework 36 according to the applicable ASG agreement.

Salary and employment conditions, including any rights to travel for relocation and moving expenses, will be determined according to the agreement or contract in effect at the time of appointment between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

Housing

Housing can be provided for the position. Rent and deposit are paid according to the applicable rules at any given time.

Want to know more?

If you have questions about the position, please feel free to contact: Municipal Director Randi Vestergaard Evaldsen Phone: 64 80 16 Email: rave@kujalleq.gl

Application with a criminal record, and with information about education and previous employment, along with a copy of the diploma, etc. in pdf format. Must be received by the municipality no later than December 15, 2026 via our website.

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

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

Application deadline: December 15, 2026