Management
Senior government official
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: low according to the ILO, high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +4% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Senior government officials (ISCO 1112). 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.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
72 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- ambassador
- area manager
- attache
- attaché
- brigade manager
- central bank director
- central bank directors
- central bank governor
- central bank manager
- central bank managers
- central banker
- central bankers
- chargé d'affaires
- chief constable
- chief fire officer
- chief of staff
- chief police constable
- chief police officer
- city administrator
- civil service administrator
- commissaire
- consul
- consul-general
- counsellor of embassy
- county council manager
- cultural attache
- defence attache
- diplomat
- diplomatic agent
- diplomatic ambassador
- diplomatic service officer
- district council manager
- economic attache
- embassy counsellor
- embassy officer
- envoy
- fire brigade commissioner
- fire commissioner
- fire service commissioner
- first secretary
- foreign service officer
- general secretary
- government department manager
- her majesty's diplomat
- high commissioner
- honorary consul
- international organisation chief officer
- local authority officer
- main bank governor
- national bank governor
- national bank governors
- ordinary ambassador
- police & crime commissioner
- police and crime commissioner
- police chief
- police chief constable
- police commissioner
- police woman
- political attache
- public administration director
- public administration manager
- public administrator
- public body administrator
- public body manager
- public institution director
- public service administrator
- public service director
- resident ambassador
- secretary general
- secretary-general
- sheriff
- UN diplomat
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.