Main tasks in the administration
A total of 2,300 staff work on a daily basis to ensure that culture and leisure services available to the citizens are constantly being developed, and they meet today’s standards for public service.
Culture, leisure, sport and libraries
Today, the Culture and Leisure Administration manages more than 100 sports facilities, libraries, culture centres, museums, national archives and exhibition facilities.
Some of these function as independent facilities and institutions while others have been combined into larger units.
The goal is to increase local flexibility, improve citizen service, strengthen what is on offer at the libraries and culture centres in the local districts and to develop new sorts of cooperative ventures.
Copenhagen City Properties – is the municipality’s cross-sector property company. In conjunction with customers, CCP creates physical frameworks for municipal life – from child care to care of the elderly
CCP’s main services are maintenance, operation, managing, and leasing out and building of the municipality’s portfolio of 2.3m sq.m. This contains administration buildings, City Hall, culture centres, libraries, institutions, schools and sports facilities.
The Mayor
Pia Allerslev (V) is the Mayor of the Administration and, as chair of the Culture and Leisure Committee, responsibility for the Culture and Leisure Administration.
The Executive Board
The Chief Executive, Carsten Haurum and Director Olga Brüniche-Olsen take care of the daily management of the Administration.
The Board symbolises the administration’s value base, laying down the guidelines for the overall direction the administration will take.
The Secretariat and Communication
The Secretariat and Communication is the advisory department for the administration and the politicians.
Lawyers and economists work in this department, advising and preparing decision papers for the Mayor, the Culture and Leisure Committee, the Adult Education Committee, the City Council and the Chief Executive.
Communication and Press Officers work with internal and external communication as well as advising other departments in the administration how get their messages and stories out to the citizens.
The Secretariat and Communication carry out a wide range of jobs such as strategic consultation, press relations, mayor’s speeches, internet solutions and PR at all levels.
Planning
Planning is a department in the Culture and Leisure Administration which ensures that there is a vital and active leisure and sporting life in Copenhagen.
The department develops new and existing sports facilities, culture centres and libraries in Copenhagen, rents premises out and supports both adult education and voluntary organisation work.
Planning also works with social integration in organisation work, events and culture festivals.
Service Centre
The Service Centre ensures that institutions can gain easy and rapid access to the central administration’s services through better coordination. It comprises three departments:
Finance
Finance works together with other departments in the administration on budget, accounts and financial control on a broad basis.
The Finance Department also contributes to project development and financial analyses, as well as making presentations to the Culture and Leisure Administration’s management and committee.
HR Department
The HR department is the personnel department of the Culture and Leisure Administration which works to make the whole administration a vital and attractive place to work in.
The department is responsible for wages, personnel legislation, analysing staff satisfaction, employer branding, staff benefits and management development as well as courses and workshops for the administration’s staff.
Operations and IT
Operations and IT is the department in the Culture and Leisure Administration which partly ensures that the sporting and cultural events on offer in the City of Copenhagen are coherent, and partly provides support in the areas of IT and digital technology.
