The municipal council of Kujalleq Municipality has decided to create a new department head position spanning the three Majoriaq centers. This comes after 15 positions were eliminated last year. At the same time, the municipality is reinstating the position of IT director, which had previously been eliminated.
The Municipality of Kujalleq spent approximately 25 million DKK on job-search services and labor market initiatives in 2025. The budget was approximately 16 million Danish kroner. According to the administration, the figures show that rising unemployment requires a more coordinated effort.
“The greatest financial challenge lies not in Majoriaq’s day-to-day operations, but in job-search services and the labor market,” the administration writes in the case summary.
At the same time, there are fewer people available to handle the work. During the 2025 budget cuts, Majoriaq lost 15 employees, and the area has not had a single manager. The centers in Qaqortoq, Narsaq, and Nanortalik have been managed separately.
On Wednesday, the municipal council therefore decided to create a permanent department head position spanning the three centers. The position will cost 776,000 DKK per year starting in 2027, and the new department head can take office no earlier than November 1. The department head’s first task will be to get more unemployed people into work or education and thereby curb the rising costs of benefits.
The new position is a management role and does not replace the 15 eliminated positions. The administration also does not believe that the problem can be solved solely by hiring more case workers. Going forward, politicians will receive a quarterly briefing on unemployment, including information on young people under 30 who are neither working nor in school.
At the same meeting, the municipal council decided to create a new executive position with responsibility for IT, digitization, and information security. The municipality previously had an IT director, but that position was eliminated, and the IT department was placed under the chief financial officer. According to the administration, that arrangement has not been able to meet the municipality’s needs. The cost of the new position has not yet been calculated.
