Senior Programme Coordinator - Executive Programmes - DTU Learn for Life

Business Management. Sustainability. Technology, Digitisation, and Innovation. Board Education.

We are looking for dynamic and dedicated Senior Programme Coordinator for our executive programmes, where you will be a key resource for admissions, planning and delivery. You will be part of a team with highly skilled colleagues and our shared goal is to ensure that every cohort is delivered successfully and adds the highest possible value to the participants, faculty, and the organization.

DTU Learn for Life
DTU Learn for Life is the cross-university centre developing and coordinating executive and continuing education programmes at DTU - Technical University of Denmark at the Lyngby Campus.

We are a centre for a new strategic investment at DTU in relation to continuing and executive education in a unique, dynamic university environment. DTU Learn for Life is DTU's platform for all forms of future management education and specialized continuing education based on technology, sustainability, and innovation. A showcase for DTU's teaching and research, which reaches out widely to businesses, authorities, and organisations both in Denmark and in the world.

At DTU Learn for Life, we promote and run programmes for specialists, managers, leaders, and C-levels to drive change in their companies and organisations as well as in society as a whole. We have our offices in a well-equipped centre on campus with an Executive auditorium, break-out meeting rooms, and a lounge - where we run classes, workshops, masterclasses, lectures, and events. We want to deliver world class continuing and executive education to the business world as well as to private and public organisations.

About our executive programmes
The DTU Executive MBA, also called Master in Management of Technology (MMT), is an intensive two-year master’s programme. The DTU Executive MBA is accredited by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science as well as AMBA, the Association of MBAs, and we are launching the 26th cohort these weeks.

Our Master in Sustainable Leadership is an innovative, accredited programme that brings academic content out of the classroom by integrating learning into real-world cases and projects. Participants will practice everything they learn in a real-life context and a key feature is the immersive learning project, spanning the 2-year programme. 

The Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership programme is a time-tested and successful programme where teams of 2-5 people work on real-world innovation challenge, supported by international faculty, boasting several cases that are in operation today in many of Denmark’s leading companies.

Our Board Education Programme combines solid, academic research with first-hand experience from top business executives and board experts and provides the participants with knowledge and key skills to increase leadership competencies and build a board career.

Besides these four ongoing executive programmes, we have other executive programs waiting to relaunch or completely new ones in the making. Growth and business development is part of the job. 

Responsibilities
As Senior Programme Coordinator at DTU Learn for Life, you will have a number of study administrative tasks and customer contact, but your main responsibility is to manage and coordinate the operation of our joint executive secretariat consisting of the coordinators supporting the programmes mentioned above and in alignment with our Operations team. 

You are responsible for a broad portfolio of secretarial tasks with a great deal of independent responsibility. It can be anything from contact with customers and partners, study administration, dialogue with external professors, preparation of premises, etc. It is also your responsibility to communicate information in writing and face-to-face in a good manner - both towards the participants, the programme teams as well as the coordinators in the secretariat.

Your tasks are both to do the things below operationally, and to optimize and align with your colleagues across programmes and the general DTU administration.

• Daily responsible for the executive secretariat incl. a small team of coordinators.
• Customer service and support.
• Study administration.
• Secretarial tasks.
• Contact and communication to participants and faculty.
• Updating of courses and academic guidelines.
• Coordination with directors, managers, and Heads of Study.
• Develop and prepare process descriptions.
• Take lead in the development of administrative and digital processes.

 Our expectations for the candidate:

• Trained office assistant or other office training. You may also have an academic background with experience from secre