CES Resolution: RPC-SO-04-No. 084-2020

Admission Profile:

The programme is aimed at professionals with a third-level degree duly registered with SENESCYT. Preferably in the Broad Field: Administration. Specific Field: Commercial Education and Administration. Detailed Field: Administration. Additionally, professionals working in the areas of Administration, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Economics, Hospitality, Marketing, Public Relations and Management, and with extensive experience in the public sector.

Graduate Profile:

This graduate profile trains professionals capable of effectively managing public policies, promoting inclusion, gender equality, respect for the environment, and sustainable development in the governmental sphere. Since the learning outcomes and professional competencies are fundamental for future professional performance in public management, they enable addressing the complex and changing challenges of the social, political, and economic environment with efficiency and social responsibility.
The following competencies and learning outcomes are highlighted:

• Interdisciplinary Application: Integration of theories and models from various disciplines to effectively lead governmental entities, from human talent management to local government reengineering.
• Analysis of Complex Phenomena: Ability to address relevant social and political problems, using competitive, social, and statistical strategies to design innovative solutions and minimize risks.
• Evaluation of Public Policies: Ability to analyse and improve public policies in various sectors, promoting social and economic development with an ethical and responsible approach.
• Rigorous Methodology: Application of appropriate methodological techniques to analyse public interventions, respecting cultural and environmental values.
• Promotion of Equality and Diversity: Facilitation of learning and awareness about gender, ethnic, cultural, and disability diversity, promoting inclusion and equity in interdisciplinary projects.
• Environmental Protection: Promotion of inclusive and participatory environmental projects, advocating for equality and environmental protection policies at the international level.
• Observation and Treatment of Gender Discrimination: Development of observatories and protocols to address gender discrimination, creating inclusive and safe environments.
• Education in Intercultural Citizenship and Sustainable Development: Implementation of training programmes in intercultural citizenship and sustainable development, integrating cultural and environmental knowledge to promote social transformation.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Integration of human rights, respect for the environment, and enrichment of traditional cultures in public management.
• Design and implementation of community projects that promote participation and a healthy culture.
• Design of contextualised strategies for inclusive sociocultural practices.
• Implementation of projects that respect diversity and promote the relationship between knowledge and life.
• Planning and execution of dialogue spaces for local development and leadership.
• Development of action-research projects with ethical commitment towards social transformation and environmental care.

General Objective

To train competent professionals with quality standards to address issues related to social participation, lack of awareness of laws, budgetary participation, and decentralisation and concentration, ensuring that public entities fulfil their social function with social responsibility, thereby promoting the ethical culture of public management.

Specific Objectives

• To promote theoretical and methodological training in the area of public management, focusing on classical administrative theory and human relations, based on the systems, contingency, and complexity approaches through knowledge from various disciplines, in order to play a leading role and lead actions aimed at achieving excellence in public management.
• To develop professional competencies through methodologies, strategies, and practices to solve public management issues, by applying innovative strategies that lead to the mitigation of social impacts, through the application of innovation programmes aimed at mitigating social problems, in order to improve social participation processes from an ethical culture perspective.
• To strengthen professional training from a holistic perspective, by competencies and based on meaningful learning through didactic techniques and tools that allow understanding and deepening knowledge in public administration with social responsibility.
• To value the problems of public administration from a responsible perspective that respects cultural diversity, ancestral knowledge, intercultural technology, and the guidelines of the National Whole Life Plan. Through the values of ethical culture, given in responsibility, transparency, dialogue, and tolerance.

Class times:

Saturdays: 08:00 - 17:00
Sunday: 08:00 - 17:00

Modules:

• Human talent management for public companies
• Social entrepreneurship
• Legal foundations of public administration
• Digital and local government
• Public administration statistics
• Research methodology
• Degree workshop
• Public policy and finance
• Citizen participation and transparency management
• Policy Integration and Evaluation