Centre Coordinator DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability DTU Sustain

Administration community building and outreach

DTUs Centre for Absolute Sustainability is looking for an outgoing and organised Centre Coordinator to take the lead on administering the Centre building our internal community and spearheading our external outreach activities.

The job
We are seeking a new colleague with organisational competencies to help us to administer the Centre plus a flair communication and teamwork to take the lead role in our internal and external community building and outreach activities.

Primary areas of responsibility will include:

• Internal coordination and community-building activities including monthly Centre meetings for internal Centre staff and affiliated colleagues and annual seminars for Academic Forum
• Planning and execution of the Centres outreach activities including lunch seminars (ca. 10 per year) industry workshops (ca. 5 per year) and annual conference (ca. 200 delegates)
• Coordination of accounting and reporting of research projects and other related projects at the Centre

Our expectations of you
You have experience in coordinating projects and people both with respect to practical organisational issues and with respect to motivating and developing the team members.

You have qualifications and/or experience within the field of sustainability with an academic degree or similar qualifications in order to be able to communicate with external colleagues and to host & facilitate the Centres outreach events and activities.

You enjoy working in a dynamic and fast developing environment and are able to prioritise and manage many tasks of different shapes sizes and importance.

You thrive amongst subject experts and enjoy helping preparing them to communicate their expertise to others.

What we offer in return
The DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability offers collaboration with a highly purpose-driven team of colleagues all of whom share a common goal to advance the scientific field in collaboration with each other internally and to communicate this broadly to relevant societal stakeholders. Our team is highly diverse with respect to nationality gender age and interests. Our own ambitions and activities drive our everyday working life and we look forward to welcoming a colleague who can help us to develop and coordinate these.

Salary and appointment terms
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

The period of employment is 3 years. Starting date as soon as possible.

Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than 9 December 2025 (23:59 Danish time). Open the Apply now link fill out the form and attach your motivated application CV and exam certificates.

If you would like additional information about the position please contact Centre Lead Professor Michael Z. Hauschild via or Centre Co-Lead Professor Tim C. McAloone via

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age gender disability race religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology which is subject to special rules for security and export control open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

The DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability is a cross-departmental initiative at DTU bearing the mission of fostering research and innovation to support fact-based strategic sustainability decision-making in Denmark and internationally. By bringing leading experts on assessment and engineering approaches together in an orchestrated collaboration the Centre is strengthening and consolidating sustainability competencies at DTU and is enabling ground-breaking research results within technology-focused environmental sustainability transition.

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13500 students and 6000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive evolving and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.