Presentation of the Professional Competency Model of Research managers in Research-Based Organizations

The main goal research to Identify and assessment the professional competencies of research managers. Research method was mixed and in the qualitative section methodology was theme analysis and in the quantitative was descriptive survey. The population of the research is all managers of research groups of ACECR with the numbers of 85. The sample size in qualitative was 19 managers who were chosen purposely also in quantitative part capitation was used due to the limitation of population, the number of 63 people responded to questionnaires. In the qualitative part, Research tool was interview and in the other part was questionnaire. The validity of the quantitative tool (questionnaire) was a Construct validity which was verified by confirmatory factor analysis and reliability was Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.99).The results in the qualitative section, a list of dimensions of competency includes knowledge (8 items), skill (19 items), ability (5 items) and traits (4 items), the also that all aspects competency had higher level than hypothetical average. Feature dimension with the average of 3.59 was the highest rank and the lowest rank with the average of 1.70 was knowledge dimension.