Master's degree Law and Territorial Governance Management - year 2

Training is available in initial and continuing education. It mainly welcomes students with a Master's Degree in public law and management sciences with a focus on public management.

It is also open to students who are returning to study for validation of prior learning (VAP or VAE).

Finally, since 2012 ENSOSP students, under certain conditions (see partnerships) are also part of the student body.

This Master 2 allows students to acquire knowledge and skills specific to the changing territorial context at the legal, economic, and managerial levels. At the end of the Master, the student will be able to:

• Develop strategies adapted to local public policies, from their birth to their evaluation.
• act in the service of the local authority by analyzing a public policy issue in its various aspects, synthesizing them and identifying solutions.
• design, plan and implement a project, taking into account legal and regulatory constraints and coordinating the different actors and partners in the project.
• set up technical, administrative and financial files thanks to the mastery of editorial techniques relating to the public sector.
• adapt to the evolution of the fields of competence of local authorities and the local administrative world.
• carry out a mission while having a perspective on professional issues.
• build strategic and operational information supports for the teams and partners of local authorities.
• facilitate the articulation between the legal and managerial fields, whatever its initial field (legal or managerial).
• demonstrate an indispensable open-mindedness in local action due to the multiplicity of partnerships of territorial authorities.

This Master 2 is composed of lectures: 303 hours of student attendance, including 144 hours of managerial subjects, 138 hours of legal subjects, 21 hours of methodological support.

The internship, which lasts a minimum of 4 months and whose missions must be validated by the tutor, is compulsory. The internship is accompanied by the writing of an academic dissertation followed by an oral defense.

The lecturers combine various teaching methods: theoretical presentations, case studies, role-playing, role-playing and discussion periods, allowing the student to be an actor in their training.

Semester 3:

Law of territorial authorities and territories (6 ECTS)
Law of Local and Regional Authorities and Intercommunality
Local Finance
Legal approaches to the management of local and regional authorities (9 ECTS)
Town and Country Planning Law
Territorial civil service law
Public contracts and procurement
Management of territorial authorities and territories (12 ECTS)
Public finance: operational management and foresight
Operational management of human resources
Territorial marketing
Management of the competitiveness and attractiveness of the territories
Vocational integration I (3 ECTS)
Methodology
Professional project

Semester 4 :

Actions of territorial authorities (9 ECTS)
Local taxation
Management and strategy of territorial projects
Comparative territorial approaches
Territorial practices (6 ECTS)
Smart city and e-democracy
Territories: innovation and entrepreneurship
Vocational integration II (15 ECTS)
Internship and dissertation
Methodology

Further education:

• Ph.D. in Sciences Management

Opportunities :

• Sectors:
  • In the public sector: central and decentralized administrations, local authorities, urban communities, metropolises, communities of conurbations, communities of communes public sector agencies
  • In the private sector: consultants, law firms, consultancy firms, banks, semi-public companies, financial institutions, real estate companies, in relation with local authorities, non-for-profit organizations.
• Targeted occupations:
  • General administration civil servant of local and regional authorities (attachés, administrators).
  • Territorial civil servant in the technical and social sectors.
  • Executive manager of a territorial service .
  • Contract agent assimilated to category A of local authorities as a cabinet assistant or chargé de mission.
  • Consultant, department director, research officer, project manager, client manager, public procurement officer in or with commercial organizations.
  • Lawyer specialized in public business law (advice and representation of local authorities).

Admission is subject to application.

For students in initial training: have validated a Master' Degree 1 in Public Management or Public Law; more generally a Master 1 in Law-Economy-Economy-Management.

For those in continuing education: have completed a Master's Degree 1 in Law, Economics, or Management, and management experience in the public or semi-public sector.

Since 2012 Aix-Marseille Université and the École Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers (ENSOSP)are partners. The IMPGT on behalf of AMU implements various training actions for ENSOSP officers by awarding the Master 2 diploma in Public Law and Management of Local Authorities on the one hand to Fire Brigade Officers - Executives from the three public functions - Executives and senior technicians from the private sector over two years and, on the other hand, to senior fire brigade officers (cadets-colonels) over a period of one year.