Directive No. 10
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Requisite Training for Employees to Continue to Exercise Ministerial Delegation of Authority

Policy Objective:

To establish the requisite training for delegated officers to maintain competencies in order to continue to exercise delegation of authority or required of their position.

Background:

Recognition and strengthening of professional skills and knowledge is an operating principle of Flight 2005 — A Civil Aviation Safety Framework for Canada.

In Civil Aviation Directive (CAD) 7, the following four phases of learning were identified for delegated officers:

• Phase I, initial training — the planned process to acquire common competencies for job performance.
• Phase II, supplementary training — the planned process to develop further job-specific competencies.
• Phase III, recurrent training — the planned process to maintain competencies in order to exercise delegation of authority.
• Phase IV, career development training.

This Directive relates specifically to Phase III or recurrent training.

Policy Statement:

Civil Aviation is committed to providing recurrent training to allow delegated officers to maintain the required competencies in order to continue to exercise their delegation.

Application:

This Directive applies to all Civil Aviation Delegated Officers or other non-delegated employees as identified by the applicable Branch Functional Directors.

Definitions:

Recurrent Training — the planned process to maintain competencies in order to exercise delegation of authority.

Competencies — are a set of skills, abilities and related behaviours, which are indicative of the personal attributes that employees need to do their work successfully.

Approach:

Following completion of the requirements of CAD 7 and being granted delegated authority, Delegated Officers must successfully complete the requirements of recurrent training as outlined in Appendix A.

• Schedule B — Regulatory Services
• Schedule C — General Aviation
• Schedule D — Aerodromes and Air Navigation *pending Ministerial approval
• Schedule E — Aircraft Certification
• Schedule F — Aircraft Maintenance and Manufacturing
• Schedule G — Regions — Aircraft Certification and Aircraft Maintenance and Manufacturing (see also Schedule E and Schedule F)
• Schedule H — Commercial and Business Aviation (see also Schedule F)
• Schedule I — *deleted pending Ministerial approval of Schedule D delegations
• Schedule K — System Safety

The Recurrent Training Strategy document provides additional principles as to the how recurrent training will be implemented.

Functional branches may, at their discretion, identify required training for non-delegated employees to maintain the competencies required of their position.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Civil Aviation Delegated Officers are responsible for:

• reviewing on an annual basis, the training requirements outlined in this Directive; and
• through learning plans, requesting training in a timely fashion in order to continue to exercise their delegation.

Headquarters and Regional Managers are responsible for:

• determining the consequences of Delegated officer who do not meet the requirements of CAD 10.
• through employee learning plans, identifying the recurrent training required by their delegated officers.
• to report on the completion of a delegated officer's training to Aviation Learning Services

Headquarters Functional Directors are responsible for:

• chairing Functional Learning Committees (FLC) which implement the requirements of this directive at the functional level;
• establishing functional procedures for the delivery and monitoring of recurrent training program; and
• determine the consequences of delegated officers who do not meet the requirements of CAD 10.

Regional Directors are responsible for:

• ensuring their employees with delegation of authority receive recurrent training in accordance with their respective schedules in order to maintain their delegation of authority; and
• determining the consequences of delegated officers who do not meet the requirements of CAD 10.

Director, Aviation Learning Services is responsible for:

• assuring the quality of the design, development, delivery, evaluation and validation of recurrent training programs;
• identifying a common structure and approach that will be used for recurrent training;
• designing and implementing evaluation tools;
• offering sufficient number of courses/learning events to meet the demand for recurrent training such that employees may meet their requirements;
• maintaining the records for recurrent training in the Civil Aviation Training Information System (CATIS) database; and
• reporting annually to the National Civil Aviation Management Executive (NCAMX) on matters relating to this directive.

The Functional Learning Committee (FLC) is responsible for:

• recommending recurrent training content, frequency, and evaluation standards required by delegated officers within their respective functional areas; and
• recommending revisions to applicable schedules for training requirements within their respective functional areas.

The Learning Oversight Committee (LOC) is responsible for:

• establishing partnerships among functional areas, Aviation Learning Services (AARE), and Corporate Human Resources, Learning and Counseling;
• pursuing consistency in inspectors' competencies;
• monitoring cross-functional learning programs;
• providing a forum for sharing ideas concerning learning, training and development within Civil Aviation;
• recommending training/learning directives and policies to NCAMX;
• making decisions regarding the implementation of training/learning directives and policies, needs analysis, development, delivery, evaluation and competencies;
• communicating decisions made by LOC to NCAMX; and
• making minor changes to NCAMX — approved policies.

Further information:

Kim Current
Director, Aviation Learning Services (AARE)
Telephone: (613) 990-3729
Facsimile: (613) 993-0748
E-mail: currekg@tc.gc.ca

Merlin Preuss
Director General
Civil Aviation

Effective Date: September 8, 2004
Expiry Date: This directive will be reviewed annually.
Revisions: Changes to the schedules may be made by functional groups provided that they only affect their specific function.