Senior Managers – Health, Teaching, Social Services
Job description
These individuals plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate organizations. They formulate, alone or with a board of directors, the guiding policies of these organizations. They work in:
- Healthcare organizations
- Educational service organizations
- Community and social service organizations
- Mutual associations
- Social economy businesses (non-profit organizations or cooperatives)
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Establish the organization’s objectives by formulating or approving its policies and programs.
- Authorize and ensure the organization of the main services and the creation of the related senior positions.
- Allocate the material, human, and financial resources needed to implement the organization’s policies and programs.
- Prepare and approve promotional campaigns.
- Approve the human resources management plan.
- Select middle managers, directors, and other management personnel.
- Coordinate the work of regions, divisions, or services.
- Represent the organization, or delegate representatives, to act on behalf of the organization in negotiations or other official functions.
Advancement and mobility
- Mobility exists among the professions of senior management.
- These individuals may specialize in areas such as finance, marketing, and human resources.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
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Non available
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Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
100
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
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Job types
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Yearly wage
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Not available.
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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 or collegial degree or diploma in:
- Business Administration
- Hospital Administration
- Finance
- A discipline related to the services required
Sometimes required
- Experience in a management position is often required.
- A certificate and/or diploma related to the duties of the position or industry is often required.
- Several years of middle management experience are usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Critical thought
- Oral expression
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- Active listening
- System analysis
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Systems evaluation
- Financial resource management
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Information processing
- Active learning
- Written expression
- Time management
- Material resource management
- Mathematics
- Operation analysis
- Teaching
- Learning strategies
- Service oriented
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Deductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Speech recognition
- Awareness of issues
- Inductive reasoning
- Idea generation
- Near vision
- Originality
- Information organization
- Classification
- Mathematical reasoning
- Processing flexibility
- Basic numeracy
- Information processing speed
- Perception speed
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Distance vision
- Memorization
- Time sharing
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Diplomacy
- Leadership
- Political sense
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Professional ambition
- Capacity to network
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 00013
Senior managers - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
Job titles
- Executive director - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Executive general manager - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Business association general manager
- Business general manager
- Director general - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Deputy chief executive officer - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Hospital administrator
- Chancellor - education
- College chancellor
- Chief executive officer (ceo) - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Lobby chief executive officer - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief operating officer - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief learning officer – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief diversity officer – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief privacy officer - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief financial officer (cfo) - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief nursing officer – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Chief sustainability officer - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Educational institution chief financial officer (cfo)
- Corporate controller - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Social services institution corporate controller
- Assistant executive director - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Association executive director
- Automobile association executive director
- Recreational association executive director
- Professional association executive director
- Arts association executive director
- Health services institution executive director
- Hospital executive director
- Non-governmental organization (ngo) executive director
- Voluntary organization executive director
- Charitable organization executive director
- Alumni association executive director
- Executive director - teacher's federation
- Nurse's association executive director
- Crafts guild executive director
- Environmental group executive director
- Young men's christian association (ymca) executive director
- Hockey association general manager
- Membership organization general manager
- Business school general manager
- Trade school general manager
- Political organization general manager
- Charitable organization director
- Chairman/woman - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Cultural association president
- Educators association chairperson
- Business association president
- Health care association president
- Ethnic association president
- Scientific association chairperson
- Sports association president
- Union association president
- Academic association president
- Arts and culture association chairperson
- University president
- College president
- Community college president
- Music guild president
- Political party president
- Labour organization president
- President and general manager - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Rector - education
- Représentants élus ou nommés/représentantes élues ou nommées des institutions de santé, maisons d'enseignement, syndicats ou organisations bénévoles
- Executive vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Medical vice-president - health services
- Regional vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Academic business vice-president
- Finance vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Finance and administration vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Operations vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Sustainability vice-president – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Planning vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Compensation vice-president – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Corporate social responsibility vice-president – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Academic affairs vice-president – post-secondary education
- Human resources vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Human resources and organizational development vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Nursing vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Support services vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Information systems vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Marketing vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Personnel vice-president - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
Skill type
Management
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