Occupation Atlassocial services policy officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d6ef013f-57e9-4100-bbe5-3e4930664dee
social services policy officer
Social services policy officers research, analyse and develop social services policies and implement these policies and services to improve circumstances of disadvantaged and vulnerable members of society such as children and elderly people. They work in the administration of social services and stay in contact with organisations and other stakeholders and provide them with regular updates.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (11)
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 legislative acts
- advise on provision of social services
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- develop social security programmes
- evaluate social work program's impact
- government social security programmes
- impact of social contexts on health
- manage government policy implementation
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- promote inclusion
Optional (15)
- European Structural and Investment Funds regulations
- analyse community needs
- create solutions to problems
- evaluate staff performance in social work
- government policy
- liaise with local authorities
- maintain relationships with government agencies
- manage a social work unit
- manage several projects
- organise social work packages
- project management
- promote social security programmes
- report on social development
- social justice
- social work theory
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Closest occupations
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