Occupation Atlassecondary school department head
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d37cc820-15f5-4a81-88db-af48b0ee6a32
secondary school department head
Secondary school department heads manage and supervise their assigned departments to ensure that students are instructed and supported in a safe learning environment. They work closely with the secondary school principal to lead and assist school staff and to optimise communication between school management and teachers, parents, and other districts and schools. They facilitating meetings, develop and review curriculum programmes, observe staff when the principal delegates this work, and assume shared responsibility with the principal for financial resource management.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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
SECSocial · Enterprising · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.72
- E Enterprising5.34
- C Conventional4.68
- I Investigative3.06
- A Artistic2.84
- R Realistic1.31
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 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary (11-9032.00): 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 (22)
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 teaching methods
- assess employees' capability levels
- assess the development of youth
- assessment processes
- assist in the organisation of school events
- cooperate with education professionals
- curriculum objectives
- curriculum standards
- guarantee students' safety
- identify process improvements
- instructional strategies
- lead inspections
- learning technologies
- liaise with educational staff
- manage secondary school department
- present reports
- project management
- provide education management support
- provide feedback to teachers
- secondary school procedures
- use office systems
- write work-related reports
Optional (22)
- adolescent socialisation behaviour
- advise on lesson plans
- arrange parent teacher meeting
- create a financial report
- develop course outline
- develop organisational policies
- develop professional network
- escort students on a field trip
- evaluate education programmes
- funding methods
- identify education needs
- learning difficulties
- maintain contract administration
- maintain relations with children's parents
- manage budgets
- monitor educational developments
- plan shifts of employees
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote education programmes
- recruit employees
- teach secondary education class content
- work with virtual learning environments
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 22 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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special educational needs head teacher
11 shared · 15 more of its ownprovide feedback to teachers, curriculum standards, use office systems, cooperate with education professionals
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10 shared · 7 more of its ownprovide education management support, provide feedback to teachers, curriculum standards, cooperate with education professionals
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10 shared · 15 more of its owncurriculum standards, cooperate with education professionals, instructional strategies, liaise with educational staff
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