Certificate In Fire Service Administration

The Certificate in Fire Service Administration (CFSA) is offered fully online. It was created by Dalhousie University's Faculty of Open Learning & Career Development to help fire service officers develop their administrative and managerial skills.

By the time fire service officers are promoted to administrative positions in their departments they have years of fireground training and experience. At this point in their careers they need a new kind of training to prepare them for the new challenges they face.

Who Should Take This Certificate? 

• Any graduate of the Certificate in Fire Service Leadership.

How Will You Benefit? 

• provide participants with skills that enable them to be better managers and leaders within the fire departments.
• instill a breadth and depth of knowledge that will enable participants to better manage their fire departments.

Certificate Requirements:

• The certificate consists of nine courses over 324 hours. The six required courses (216 hours) are:
• OLCD-FIRE0022 Program Evaluation and Statistics
• OLCD-FIRE0019 Municipal Finance
• OLCD-FIRE0012 Fire Department Human Resource Management I
• OLCD-LGOV0015 Municipal Law (Formerly OLCD-FIRE0015 Fire Service Law)
• OLCD-FIRE0016 Fire Service Strategic Planning
• and either OLCD-FIRE0018 Fire Suppression Management or OLCD-FIRE0014 Fire Prevention Management
• You can select three electives (108 hours) from the options below:
• OLCD-FIRE0010 Disaster Management and the Fire Department
• OLCD-FIRE0011 Emergency Medical Service Management and the Fire Department
• OLCD-FIRE0013 Fire Department Human Resource Management II
• OLCD-LGOV0014 Local Government (formerly OLCD-FIRE0020 Municipal Government and Service Delivery)
• OLCD-FIRE0028 Theoretical Foundations of Incident Command: Acting
• OLCD-FIRE0029 Theoretical Foundations of Incident Command: Thinking
• OLCD-PALS0010 Coaching Skills for Leaders
• OLCD-PALS0012 Leadership Dynamics
• OLCD-PALS0031 Organizational Behaviour
• OLCD-PALS0032 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution