Public Administration Senior Managers
Job description
These individuals plan, organize, direct, and evaluate the activities of administrations at different levels. They deal with the activities of ministries, councils, municipalities, organizations, agencies, etc. They use current laws and policies to set the direction.
Main tasks
- Establish the organization’s objectives according to applicable laws and policies.
- Formulate, approve, and evaluate programs and procedures.
- Advise elected officials on policies and refer issues to them.
- Recommend, review, and approve documents, briefs, and reports submitted.
- Ensure that appropriate procedures and systems are developed and implemented to control the budget.
- Coordinate departmental activities with other senior officials and executives.
- Make presentations to government committees on policy, programs, or budgets.
- Ensure the management of personnel under one’s supervision.
Advancement and mobility
- There are mobility and opportunities for progression among senior management professions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
Not available.
Job types
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Not available.
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Yearly wage
All of Québec
Not available.
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
All of Québec
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- University degree or college diploma.
- Several years of management experience in the public or private sector.
Sometimes required
- A graduate degree in a related field may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- System analysis
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Systems evaluation
- Financial resource management
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Information processing
- Active learning
- Written expression
- Time management
- Material resource management
- Mathematics
- Operation analysis
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Classification
- Mathematical reasoning
- Processing flexibility
- Basic numeracy
- Perception speed
- Information processing speed
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Memorization
- Time sharing
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Leadership
- Political sense
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Knowledge of the French language
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 00011
Senior government managers and officials
Job titles
- Chief administrative officer - regional municipality
- Regional municipality general director
- City manager
- Local government manager
- General secretary - government services
- City administrator
- Government agency senior administrator
- First nations band manager
- Executive administrator - government agency
- Executive administrator - government department
- Ambassador
- Chief privacy officer - government services
- Commissioner - government services
- Employment insurance commissioner
- Liquor commissioner
- Health commissioner
- Railroad commissioner
- Highway commissioner
- Commissioner of inquiries
- Grain commissioner
- Fire marshal
- Territorial commissioner
- Government agency commissioner
- Consul
- Assistant comptroller general - government services
- Comptroller general - government services
- Comptroller general of canada
- Chief coroner
- Trade commissioner
- Assistant executive director - government services
- Executive director - government services
- Executive director - emergency preparedness
- Assistant general director - government services
- Chief - disaster management
- Chief administrative officer - government services
- Chief electoral officer
- Town clerk
- Clerk of the house of commons
- Clerk of the privy council
- High commissioner
- Inspector general of financial institutions
- Chief medical examiner
- Ombudsperson - government services
- Chairman/woman - government services
- Government agency president
- Employment insurance appeals board chairperson
- Human rights commission chairperson
- Parole board chairman/woman
- Receiver general for canada
- City superintendent
- Township clerk
- County clerk
- Council secretary - government services
- City hall clerk
- Deputy municipal clerk
- Deputy provincial secretary - government services
- Sergeant-at-arms of the house of commons
- Deputy commissioner - government services
- Deputy minister
- Assistant deputy minister
- Undersecretary of state
- Assistant undersecretary of state
- Assistant chief statistician - government services
- Chief statistician - government services
- Superintendent of financial institutions
- Vice-consul
- Vice-president - government services
Skill type
Management
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