Competency Model of Educational Leaders in the University

Today, educational leadership is one of the necessities of the country's universities. The goal is to design an educational leadership model for the university. The present study was conducted to provide a model of educational leadership for universities and qualitatively in the form of content analysis. The participants in the interview are 12 members of the board of trustees of the Azad universities in Iran. They were also the president of the university at the time of the research. These people are the policymakers of the education system of the Azad university. The sampling method in this research is snowball. We use the semi-structured interview and the theme network method. The validity and reliability of the study were evaluated and confirmed using the method of Goba and Lincoln (1985). In this study, we extracted 107 basic themes, including Twenty organizer themes. By reviewing and analyzing related themes, eight comprehensive themes called Constructive themes, included individual characteristics, psychological skills, professional skills, charismatic traits, intuitive features, managerial features, social skills, and environmental skills, have been extracted.