District Manager of Ottawa

The District Manager of Ottawa (French: Directeur de district d'Ottawa) is the highest executive office in the municipal government of Ottawa, the federal capital of Canada. The District Manager is appointed by and acts on behalf of the Capital District Municipal Council (CDMC), the popularly-elected 16-member policymaking body which forms the permanent local government of Ottawa.

The District Manager of Ottawa is more or less equivalent to a mayor in other large Canadian cities in that both are the highest executive office at the local (municipal) level. However, as Ottawa uses the council–manager form of local government, the District Manager is ultimately responsible to the CDMC (which functions as the cabinet, with each councillor assigned to oversee a particular executive department as its secretary), rather than the other way around (as in the mayor–council form, where the cabinet is accountable to the mayor).