Occupation Atlascountryside officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e011f10f-e172-43ce-bfd9-fb56e426c0c9
countryside officer
Countryside officers are responsible for a range of activities that manage and maintain the natural environment and associated public access and recreation. They encourage visitors to open spaces/the countryside, promote awareness of the natural environment and protect and preserve the open space/countryside for future enjoyment.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SRISocial · Realistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social4.87
- R Realistic4.38
- I Investigative4.24
- A Artistic3.74
- E Enterprising3.46
- C Conventional3.43
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Park Naturalists (19-1031.03): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (31)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advise on fertiliser and herbicide
- animal species
- build fences
- build garden masonry
- characteristics of plants
- conserve natural resources
- de-limb trees
- develop natural areas works programmes
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- estimate costs in farm
- execute disease and pest control activities
- identify plants characteristics
- lead a team in forestry services
- maintain technical equipment
- manage budgets
- manage crop production
- manage staff
- manage waste rock
- minimize risks in tree operations
- natural areas maintenance
- operate horticulture equipment
- operate turf management equipment
- perform pest control
- perform weed control operations
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- plant green plants
- plant species
- prepare planting area
- read maps
Optional (17)
- apply forest legislation
- conduct land surveys
- develop forestry strategies
- fire-fighting systems
- forest ecology
- harvest crop
- maintain turf and grass
- make independent operating decisions
- manage time in forestry
- manage waste
- perform outdoor cleaning activities
- plant harvest methods
- seed the ground
- soil structure
- support volunteers
- sustainable forest management
- waste management
O*NET equivalents
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