Overview

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides administrative support to the Premier and cabinet ministers;

• Provides policy and planning advice and support to the Premier, the Cabinet, and the ministers;

• Leads the Saskatchewan Public Service, including developing and advancing the Government’s public service management agenda, with particular emphasis on public service renewal; ensuring strategic management and planning among senior public service personnel across government; providing leadership and direction to the Public Service in developing public policy; and acting as spokesperson for the Public Service.

• Facilitates co-ordination of government communications by providing strategic direction in communications, providing communications counseling to government organizations, and by ensuring a fair and equitable process for contracting communications services and printing requirements. Media Services prepares and distributes news releases and provides assistance to departments, agencies and Crown corporations in the preparation of news releases, as well as coordinating the day-to-day media relations for the Premier and the members of Cabinet;

• Co-ordinates and organizes the government’s business in the Legislative Assembly and provides research support services for the Premier and Members of the Executive Council;

• Maintains procedures for Cabinet to make policy decisions and monitors the implementation of these decisions. Cabinet Secretariat also maintains all cabinet documents, orders in council, and regulations; and

• Provides analysis, support and co-ordination services for Cabinet Committee on Planning and Priorities, and the Legislative Instruments Committee.

Department Vision

• Promotes excellence in the performance of duties;
  
• Engages enthusiasm and fosters the skills and talents of employees;
  
• Demonstrates respect for and responsiveness to employees; and is flexible enough to meet their needs while also meeting the needs of government; and
  
• Acknowledges and rewards employee efforts and results.
  

Department Organization

Legislative Authority

The Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act provides that there:

73.1

"… shall be a department of the Government of Saskatchewan which shall be called the Office of the Executive Council, over which the Minister shall preside.”

74.3

The Department shall:

1. act as secretariat to the Executive Council and to any committee that the Lieutenant Governor in Council may designate;
2. co-ordinate, under the direction of the minister, some matters involving relationships with other governments; and perform duties that may be assigned to it by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.