Competency Construct of Managerial Activity of the Head of an Educational Institution: From Theory to Modeling Practice

Abstract

The article emphasizes the important role of the educational sector for the successful implementation of post-war recovery strategy for Ukraine, the formation of conceptually new organizational mechanisms and approaches to management activities in education system, in particular, in this context, the competency-based approach is defined as one of the foundations of educational policy.
The article proves the need to transform the conceptual foundations of professional activity of the head of an educational institution in the conditions of state and public administration on the basis of partnership interaction into a competency construct based on the methodology of creative management activity. The most important prerequisites for the transformation of the model of professional competence of a creative head of an educational institution are determined. On this basis, the model of the professional competence of the manager in the conditions of state and public administration on the basis of partnership interaction is constructed. The binary nature of this process is noted: firstly, the goal for creative competent managers of the new era that is undoubtedly claimed by urgent public demand; secondly, it is a systemic structured formation that reflects the needs, defines the requirements for professional, managerial and personal qualities of management system specialists of an educational organization.