Where an academic support officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an academic support officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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.
Also known as schools liaison and access officer, university access coordinator, higher education access officer, student support officer, access officer in university, access and outreach officer in university, undergraduate access and outreach officer, university access officer, access and outreach officer, university access and outreach officer.
Professionals 36 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: learning mentor, 49%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An academic support officer needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- manage access programmes management skills
- recruit student ambassador management skills
- tackle issues that block academic progress assisting and caring
- tutor students communication, collaboration and creativity
- counsel students communication, collaboration and creativity
- coordinate educational programmes management skills
- show consideration for student's situation communication, collaboration and creativity
- identify education needs management skills
- cooperate with education professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
- communicate with youth communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an academic support officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- educational counsellor 56% covered · difficulty 48.5
- learning mentor 47% covered · difficulty 56.3
- career guidance advisor 45% covered · difficulty 58
- educational psychologist 43% covered · difficulty 59.5
- academic advisor 38% covered · difficulty 63.6
- admissions coordinator 33% covered · difficulty 67.8
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Academic support officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an academic support officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.