Occupation Atlasdeputy head teacher
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2b7d34db-11b6-4c10-b227-3917752e28ac
deputy head teacher
Deputy head teachers support the management duties of their school's principals and are part of the school's administrative staff. They update the head teacher on the daily operations and developments of the school. They implement and follow up on school guidelines, policies and curriculum activities introduced by the specific head teacher. They enforce school board protocol, supervise students and maintain discipline.
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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, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
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.
- assist in the organisation of school events
- communicate with youth
- cooperate with education professionals
- curriculum objectives
- curriculum standards
- education administration
- education law
- guarantee students' safety
- maintain students' discipline
- monitor educational developments
- pedagogy
- present reports
- project management
- provide education management support
- provide feedback to teachers
- supervise educational staff
- write work-related reports
Optional (27)
- advise on lesson plans
- advise on teaching methods
- analyse staff capacity
- apply for government funding
- assess the development of youth
- assessment processes
- contract law
- create a financial report
- develop professional network
- escort students on a field trip
- evaluate education programmes
- funding methods
- kindergarten school procedures
- labour legislation
- lead inspections
- learning technologies
- liaise with board members
- maintain relations with children's parents
- manage budgets
- manage contracts
- manage government-funded programmes
- manage student admissions
- monitor student's behaviour
- prepare youths for adulthood
- primary school procedures
- promote education programmes
- secondary school procedures
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 17 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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10 shared · 9 more of its owncurriculum standards, education law, cooperate with education professionals, monitor educational developments
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university department head
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