The public administration field is vast as there are many types of professional positions/jobs available within public administration. Many public administration jobs are offered by cities, counties and state agencies. Public administrations jobs can also come from other public agencies such as school districts, hospital districts, community college districts and other publically funded government organizations. These jobs tend to be at a supervisor or higher level, such as managers, directors, administrators, etc.

Primary Task Response: need to search and locate a local job posting for a public administrator position at any publically funded government organization. Consider searching for manager level positions within fire, police, parks, library, public works or other departments from cities and counties. Or manager level positions like directors, coordinators or even principals at a school district. The choice is yours.

Locate and explore a local job posting

• Identify the position, what organization is/was hiring, and list several of the required qualifications for the job, list several desired qualifications as well.
• Detail how each of the following concepts from Chapter 4 of our textbook, are included within the job description; 1) bureaucracy, 2) ethics and 3) human resource management;
• Explain how the job posting emphasizes the concept of public service.
• What do you like best about the job posting you selected?