Occupation Atlasacademic support officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2ddde737-28f3-444d-b1f8-ef12cc2df3c7
academic support officer
Academic support officers provide assistance to students with learning problems and act as the main point of contact for these students. They make sure extra tuition and educational programmes are provided to under-represented students with academic or personal issues. They also organise several social activities throughout the academic year.
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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.
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Occupational interest profile
SCESocial · Conventional · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social7.00
- C Conventional4.09
- E Enterprising3.92
- I Investigative3.30
- A Artistic3.13
- R Realistic1.00
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 Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors (21-1012.00): 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 (20)
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.
- assess students
- assessment processes
- assist in the organisation of school events
- communicate with youth
- cooperate with education professionals
- coordinate educational programmes
- counsel students
- curriculum objectives
- guarantee students' safety
- identify education needs
- listen actively
- manage access programmes
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- project management
- recruit student ambassador
- show consideration for student's situation
- support children's wellbeing
- tackle issues that block academic progress
- tutor students
- write work-related reports
Optional (16)
- communication
- customer service
- education law
- electronic communication
- give constructive feedback
- learning difficulties
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- monitor student's behaviour
- promote education course
- promote social awareness
- provide information on study programmes
- school psychology
- teach university class
- university procedures
- work with virtual learning environments
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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