Each National Park has an administrative council consisting of:
• representatives of the state and administrations,
• local residents
• spokespersons of organisations and groups such as hunters, fishermen, foresters, farmers, industrialists, naturalists and scientists...

The administrative council lays down the guiding principles, approves the planning programme, votes budgets and supervises the work of the Park Director and his team. The board of the Vanoise National Park has 40 members, and meets two or three times a year. It can delegate to a standing commission of 8 members.

A scientific council, composed of scientits, has a role of expert at the administrative council: the actions decided by the council take into account the interests of nature preservation and of the users. The scientific council of the Vanoise National Park is also involved in the formation of its agents.

The Park's staff works for the realisation of the decisions taken by the administrative council. At the headquarters, 31 people deal with scientific, technical and administrative concerns. In the field, there are 38 agents (called Park rangers) working in the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys.