designing strategic competencies model of directors of lorestan province education department

Purpose: the main purpose of this study was to design a model of strategic competencies of education managers in lorestan province. methodology: the present study was applied in terms of purpose and combined (qualitative / quantitative) in terms of implementation. the qualitative statistical population was 17 experts familiar with the subject of research who were selected by purposive sampling method and the statistical population was the quantitative section of all heads, deputies and managers of different education districts in 2019-20. categories were selected. the research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was obtained from the perspective of professors and reliability was obtained by cronbach's alpha test (0.92). delphi method with kendall coefficient was used to analyze the data and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations in spss and pls smart software were used for model validity and fit (p <0.001). findings: data analysis showed that concerning significance of the model aspects, management was prioritized as factor loading (.98), organizational loading (.93), and individual loading (.90) (p<0/001). based on t amounts, the significance of factor loadings (route coefficients) of the relationships among the components and strategic competencies aspects was above 2.57 which suggested that factor loadings of all components related to the “individual”, “management”, and “organizational” aspects were meaningful in the level of error α =0.01 (p<0.001, t>2.57). finally, the suggested model of strategic competencies of directors of education department was 0.61 based on goodness of fit (gof) standard, which was more than 0.35. conclusion: based on the present findings, the indigenous model of strategic competencies of managers in the education system can be considered significant.