The phrase "a directorate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of individuals who manage or direct an organization or a specific department within an organization.
Example: "The directorate met to discuss the strategic plans for the upcoming fiscal year."
Alternatives: "a board" or "an executive committee".
The CIA created a Directorate of Digital Innovation whose director told me the priority was making sure the agency stayed on top of technology.
In a national lab, a PI would answer to a division leader, who in turn might answer to a directorate leader or a lab director.
The GES restructuring program places the GEU as a directorate under the office of the Director-General.
The senior official said the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, after months of planning, created a directorate for the elimination of Iraqi unconventional arms on March 22, and that its director is Douglas M. Englund, a retired Army colonel with long experience in arms control and weapons elimination.
In May the southern government was reorganized under a directorate of seven, in which military men dominated.
Others include a directorate focused on science and technology, and a fourth handles logistics for operations abroad.
A Directorate-General of the European Commission, JRC?s seven institutes provide technical and scientific support for European policy-making.
M.G.-Q.: When I came into the job I inherited a directorate-general that was project-based [and set about transforming it] into a policy-based one.
It gives scientific and technical reference information to the European Commission (EC), the European Parliament, and European Union (EU) member states, and it is a Directorate-General of the European Commission in its own right.
Salaris notes Futurism's resemblance to "a political party, with a charismatic leader, a central directorate, and cells in the field — a first in the art world".
Although the majority of the EU member-states seem to be willing to cooperate under an EU Directorate, a few have at times voiced their dissatisfaction.
