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Managers · code 1112

Senior government officials

Senior government officials advise governments on policy matters, oversee the interpretation and implementation of government policies and legislation by government departments and agencies, represent their country abroad and act on its behalf, or carry out similar tasks in intergovernmental organizations. They plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the overall activities of municipal or local, regional and national government departments, boards, agencies or commissions in accordance with legislation and policies established by government and legislative bodies. Tasks include - (a) advising national, state, regional or local governments and legislators on policy matters; (b) advising on the preparation of government budgets, laws and regulations, including amendments; (c) establishing objectives for government departments or agencies in accordance with government legislation and policy; (d) formulating or approving and evaluating programmes and procedures for the implementation of government policies in conjunction or consultation with government, (e) recommending, reviewing, evaluating and approving documents, briefs and reports submitted by middle managers and senior staff members; (f) ensuring appropriate systems and procedures are developed and implemented to provide budgetary control; (g) coordinating activities with other senior government managers and officials; (h) making presentations to legislative and other government committees regarding policies, programmes or budgets; (i) overseeing the interpretation and implementation of government policies and legislation by government departments and agencies. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Ambassador - City administrator - Civil service commissioner - Consul-general - Director-general (government department) - Director-general (intergovernmental organization) - Fire commissioner - Inspector-general (police) - Permanent head (government department) - Police chief constable - Police commissioner - Secretary-general (government administration) - Under-secretary (government) Note Chief executives of government-owned enterprises are included in Unit Group 1120: Managing Directors and Chief Executives.

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 307 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • central bank governor
  • police commissioner
  • secretary general
  • diplomat
  • consul
  • fire commissioner
  • public administration manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

62.3
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 37.7 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 37.7 = 62.3

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

29.7
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 4 US jobs

9.5
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 11.6 · hand skill 7.1 · cramped spaces 9.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 29.7 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 53.5, while the average is 37.7. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 53.5

    Recommending, reviewing, evaluating and approving documents, briefs and reports submitted by middle managers and senior staff members

    Medium
  2. 43.5

    Advising on the preparation of government budgets, laws and regulations, including amendments

    Low
  3. 38.5

    Ensuring appropriate systems and procedures are developed and implemented to provide budgetary control

    Low
  4. 37.5

    Making presentations to legislative and other government committees regarding policies programmes or budgets

    Low
  5. 36

    Overseeing the interpretation and implementation of government policies and legislation by government departments and agencies.

    Low
  6. 35.5

    Establishing objectives for government departments or agencies in accordance with government legislation and policy

    Low
  7. 35.5

    Formulating or approving and evaluating programmes and procedures for the implementation of government policies in conjunction or consultation with government

    Low
  8. 35

    Advising national, state, regional or local governments and legislators on policy matters

    Low
  9. 24

    Coordinating activities with other senior government managers and officials

    Very Low

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

3 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
67.7
AI does it for you
31

Helping wins by 36.7 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1111, 1112, 1399

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.9. This one is below that.