| Top Tasks (Specific duties and responsibilities of this job.) |
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| Direct or coordinate an organization`s financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency. |
| Confer with board members, organization officials, or staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems. |
| Analyze operations to evaluate performance of a company or its staff in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change. |
| Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity. |
| Prepare budgets for approval, including those for funding or implementation of programs. |
| Direct or coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products. |
| Negotiate or approve contracts or agreements with suppliers, distributors, federal or state agencies, or other organizational entities. |
| Review reports submitted by staff members to recommend approval or to suggest changes. |
| Appoint department heads or managers and assign or delegate responsibilities to them. |
| Direct human resources activities, including the approval of human resource plans or activities, the selection of directors or other high-level staff, or establishment or organization of major departments. |
| Top Skills used in this Job |
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| Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
| Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
| Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others` actions. |
| Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
| Time Management - Managing one`s own time and the time of others. |
| Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
| Top Abilities (Attributes of the person that influence performance in this job.) |
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| Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
| Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
| Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
| Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
| Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
| Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
| Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
