Student Assistant — Energy & Environment, SDU Climate-Wise Week

Syddansk Universitet; Odense; On-site; DKK 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expenses covered

Campus travel flexibility

Job summary

University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for a Student Assistant position with the Energy & Environment focus within the Climate-Wise Week project. The role centers on creating engaging materials for on‑campus pop‑ups, ensuring clear, accurate climate and energy content, and assisting at events across multiple SDU campuses.

You will work with a small team, review content for clarity, help with on‑site activities and travel between Odense, Esbjerg, Kolding, Sønderborg, and Vejle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's student in Energy Systems, Environmental Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Create material and content for small pop‑up events across SDU campuses.
• Review and quality-check event content to ensure climate and energy information is accurate and accessible.

Job description

Student Assistant — Energy & Environment, SDU Climate-Wise Week

Student Assistant — Energy & Environment, SDU Climate-Wise Week

Do you want a student job where you help create an event, not just attend one? SDU Center for Energy Informatics is looking for a student assistant with a technical background to help bring SDU Climate-Wise Week 2026 to life this fall. The role suits you if you're studying Energy Systems, Environmental Engineering, or something similar, and you're genuinely curious about climate, energy, and environmental topics.

About the project

SDU Climate-Wise Week is a brand-new, student engagement initiative running across five SDU campuses — Odense, Esbjerg, Kolding, Sønderborg, and Vejle — this fall. The idea is simple: make climate-friendly everyday choices visible, social, and easy to try. Small pop-up activities on campus, an online peer forum, and a few light‑hearted challenges and competitions will bring students together around climate and energy — no lectures involved. It's a pilot year, so you'll help build something that can grow into an annual SDU tradition. You won't be doing this alone — you'll be part of a small team and work closely with another student assistant also on the project.

What you'll be doing

• Help create material and content for small pop‑up events across SDU's campuses.
• Use your background in energy and environment to help review and quality‑check event content and materials, making sure information on climate and energy topics is accurate and easy to understand.
• Help with material delivery and assist at on‑site events — including possibly taking photos and generally lending a hand where needed.
• Support the project's communication efforts, and help keep track of and pass on practical information to a group of volunteer student ambassadors.
• Help gather participant feedback after the events (e.g. through a short survey) and take care of any practical follow‑up.
• Other practical or administrative tasks related to the project, as needed.

What we're looking for

• You're in the last year of your Bachelor's or currently doing your Master's, preferably within Energy Systems, Environmental Engineering, or a related field.
• You have a genuine interest in climate, energy, and environmental topics.
• You're comfortable turning technical knowledge into simple, everyday language.
• You have good communication skills in English; Danish is an advantage.
• You're happy to travel between SDU's different campuses when needed.

Practical information

• The position runs during the fall semester, with the workload concentrated both in the run‑up to the events — helping prepare materials and activities — and around the events themselves at the end of October/November.
• Hours per week: max. 14 hours per week, but flexible to fit the event progress and your studies.
• The role involves travel to SDU's campuses in Odense, Esbjerg, Kolding, Sønderborg, and Vejle; travel expenses are covered.

About SDU Center for Energy Informatics

SDU Center for Energy Informatics is an interdisciplinary, industry‑oriented research and innovation center with a global outlook. Founded in 2013, the center works to support the global transition towards a reliable, sustainable, low‑carbon energy system through ICT‑based solutions for the digital transformation of the energy sector.

Employment shall take place in accordance with the framework agreement between the Ministry of Finance and HK.

The employee must be enrolled in a higher education programme at a university or another recognized higher education institution.

In case you have not yet had an examination, the enrollment confirmation instead of the exam transcript must be annexed your application.

Application must include cover letter, CV and transcript of grades. All documents in connection with the application should not contain CPR number (civil registration number) – in that case, the CPR number must be crossed out.

All attached files must be in Adobe PDF format. Cover letter and CV can contain max. 5 Mb.

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

About SDU

The University of Southern Denmark was established to create value for and with society. Whether our contributions come in the form of excellent research, innovative solutions, education or learning, we must make a positive difference to society and contribute to a sustainable future. We do this by cultivating talents and creating the best environments for research and learning. It is therefore crucial that SDU retains, develops and recruits talent. At the same time, we need to ensure consistently high quality in all our activities – and we can only do that with the right people. The University's researchers, lecturers, students, managers and technical/administrative staff are the foundation of our success.