Advanced Occupational Diploma: Senior Government Official

Programme Overview

The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to function as a Senior Government Official.

A Senior Government Official plans, organises, directs, controls, manages, monitors, and evaluates the overall activities of municipal or local, regional and national, and provincial government departments, boards, agencies, or commissions in accordance with legislation, ethical parameters, procedures and policies established by the government and legislative bodies. Typical graduate character attributes include, among others, proficiency, efficiency, integrity, and high moral and ethical standards.

A qualified learner will be able to:
Conceptualise, design, implement, and evaluate public sector policies, including participatory policies and programmes and a public sector development management framework.
Deliver services for public value and lead public sector change.
Conduct and fulfil management functions required to deliver public value.
Integrate public administration under the rule of law.
Strengthen and implement sustainable public sector ethical practices and use knowledge to promote the achievement of public sector goals.
Conduct research and integrate qualitative and quantitative information, methods, and evidence to support decision-making in the public sector.
Analyse and apply administrative provisions to regionalism, decentralisation, and governance.
Demonstrate and apply knowledge of the indigenisation of African philosophies.