Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a dean of faculty can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a dean of faculty already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Deans of faculty lead and manage a collection of related academic departments and work with the post-secondary school principal and the different heads of department to deliver the agreed faculty and university strategic objectives. They promote the faculty in associated communities and market the faculty nationally as well as internationally. Deans of faculty also focus on achieving the faculty's financial mangement target.

Also known as head of faculty, university head of school, university head of faculty, faculty dean, faculty director, director of faculty.

Managers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: university department head, 76%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
university department head 76% covered secondary school department h… 61% covered deputy head teacher 55% covered further education principal 49% covered special educational needs coo… 48% covered dean of faculty You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from dean of faculty, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a dean of faculty already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A dean of faculty 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.

Required skill Area
  • manage educational institution's administration management skills
  • provide education management support management skills
  • provide information on study programmes assisting and caring
  • education administration business, administration and law
  • maintain contract administration information skills
  • curriculum standards education
  • organisational policies business, administration and law
  • use office systems management skills
  • cooperate with education professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
  • represent the organisation communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a dean of faculty does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Dean of faculty is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a dean of faculty’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.