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Natural History Museum Denmark (NHMD), Faculty of Science, the University of Copenhagen is looking for a full-time special consultant as IT manager for Danish System of Scientific Collections (DaSSCo) with effect from 1 September 2026. The IT manager will be embedded in the Digital Collections and will take part in maintaining and evolving DaSSCo – a national research infrastructure for mass digitization of natural history collections.

We offer a professionally challenging job in an exciting environment in a workplace that is constantly evolving. We are committed colleagues who emphasize quality, professionalism, and dynamism in the work.

The Digital Collections at NHMD currently consists of about 14 colleagues and oversees managing the digital collections as well as spearheading the museums digitization efforts, in particularly evolving and maintaining the Danish System of Scientific Collections (DaSSCo) infrastructure. DaSSCo is a national research infrastructure financed by, among others, the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Natural History Museum Denmark – University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum Aarhus, Aarhus University Herbarium, and DTU 3D Imaging center. The aim of DaSSCo is to digitise the approximately 19 million natural history objects stored at the combined Danish natural history collections in Denmark. Through digitisation of our collections, we will make information, presently only accessible onsite, in natural history collections available to everyone around the world: for researchers, educators, conservation programmes, nature management, businesses, the general public, and many others.

Tasks

This post will primarily be concerned with deploying and managing the IT infrastructure for our digitization programme with some development work to extend the capabilities of the infrastructure. It will involve:

• Understanding the core requirements for DaSSCo and make informed recommendations about how to manage and implement the work within the required timeframe
• Understanding how the IT infrastructure of DaSSCo relates to that of its individual member institutions as well as national and international stakeholders (such as DiSSCo and GBIF)
• Keeping up to date with developments and trends in the sector, potentially also sitting on external committees
• Project management of development and management of the IT infrastructure (such as configuration of servers, implementation of data pipelines, development of apps, integration with existing software, external publishing of data, assignment of persistent identifiers etc) including coordinating agile software development using Github and overseeing the day-to-day work of short-term programmers
• Ensure full documentation of all processes and decisions
• Communicating progress and issues effectively to technical and non-technical staff

The postholder will work closely with the Head of Digital Collections, Data Manager, Data Curators, Scientific Curators and Collections Management staff, project partners from other institutions and international colleagues.

We expect

• MSc degree in computer science, software engineering, software development, or similar
• Experience with digital asset management systems, collection management systems, and large-scale digitization projects such as DaSSCo.
• Experience in designing, building and working with large data architectures for digital asset management
• Experience working with distributed systems for storage and computing
• Experience working with administration of, configuring and managing servers, preferably Linux or other Unix based systems.
• Experience in systems development and software design ideally in the Python programming language as well as experience in software testing and documentation
• Experience in software deployment technologies including using containerization of applications
• Experience working with web APIs
• Experience of working in a project environment, particularly using Agile development and an ability to deliver results on time
• Ability to coordinate teams of developers and take ownership of work packages
• Advanced knowledge of different relational database systems and storage technologies
• Knowledge of IT security technologies
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical staff
• Willingness to gain relevant sector-specific knowledge of museum digitisation priorities and data standards such as DarwinCore
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Can work independently as well as in teams
• Full working proficiency in written and spoken English

About us

Natural history museums have never been more important. Our planet is shared by millions of living species. But now a single one among them, humans, holds the power of changing life on Earth. Solutions to grand challenges for humanity and the planet alike are only possible by way of local action, global collaboration, and by sharing knowledge and resources.

The vision of the Natural History Museum of Denmark is to empower citizens to connect with nature. We want to inspire, engage, and enable people to enjoy, understand, and care for the diversity of the natural world. In the coming years, we will be building a new Danish national museum for the natural world. One big museum complex in the Botanical Garden in the center of Copenhagen to host state-of-the-art laboratories, outstanding research collections, new public galleries, and combined facilities for teaching and science citizenship. Over the next few years, the museum will change the way people think about and use natural history museums. We are working on multiple intersecting capital projects to achieve this, as well as operating the existing museum venues that are open to the public with an exciting program of exhibitions and events.

Terms of salary and employment

The employment and salary is made in accordance with the Circular on the Collective Agreement concerning academics in the state sector concluded between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations).

Employment will be as special consultant. The salary is based on seniority. Negotiation for salary supplement is possible. The working time is 37 hours per week on average. The working hours are flexible.

Your application

If you find the job interesting, please send an electronic application with attachment via Jobportalen (click on the link “Apply Now” at the bottom of the post) no later than 16 March 2026.

Interviews will take place during week 13.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Further questions

Any questions about the position may be directed to head of digital collections, Professor Kim Steenstrup Pedersen, kimstp@snm.ku.dk.

The Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen – or SCIENCE – is Denmark’s largest science research and education institution with 4,000 employees and 9,700 Bachelor and Master’s students in 11 departments and one museum. The Faculty has an annual budget of DKK 3 billion.

Learn more about The Faculty of Science at www.science.ku.dk

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