sec.185Purpose of service and achievement

### sec.185 Purpose of service and achievement The purpose of the senior executive service is to promote the public service’s effectiveness and efficiency. Employment in the senior executive service is to be directed towards ensuring senior executives— provide strategic leadership to deliver government objectives; and provide high quality, impartial advice to chief executives and executive government; and champion the public sector principles in all aspects of their leadership and in discharging their responsibilities; and develop a public service-wide perspective and participate in collaborative and collective leadership to achieve outcomes across the public sector; and continue their executive development through ongoing learning; and develop their skills through deployment within the public service and in other entities. The purposes under subsections (1) and (2) are to be achieved by attracting, developing and retaining in the public service a core of mobile, highly skilled senior executives. (sec.185-ssec.1) The purpose of the senior executive service is to promote the public service’s effectiveness and efficiency. (sec.185-ssec.2) Employment in the senior executive service is to be directed towards ensuring senior executives— provide strategic leadership to deliver government objectives; and provide high quality, impartial advice to chief executives and executive government; and champion the public sector principles in all aspects of their leadership and in discharging their responsibilities; and develop a public service-wide perspective and participate in collaborative and collective leadership to achieve outcomes across the public sector; and continue their executive development through ongoing learning; and develop their skills through deployment within the public service and in other entities. (sec.185-ssec.3) The purposes under subsections (1) and (2) are to be achieved by attracting, developing and retaining in the public service a core of mobile, highly skilled senior executives. - (a) provide strategic leadership to deliver government objectives; and - (b) provide high quality, impartial advice to chief executives and executive government; and - (c) champion the public sector principles in all aspects of their leadership and in discharging their responsibilities; and - (d) develop a public service-wide perspective and participate in collaborative and collective leadership to achieve outcomes across the public sector; and - (e) continue their executive development through ongoing learning; and - (f) develop their skills through deployment within the public service and in other entities.