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Where a document management officer can go next

4 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a document management officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Document management officers ensure that the documents required for their organisation's functioning and daily operations are registered, classified and archived correctly and are made available to the different services or to the public upon request. They oversee the implementation of internal procedures and promote proper document management practices within the organisation, providing training to other employees on document management procedures. They may operate electronic records management systems (ERMS), electronic document management systems (EDMS) and archives management systems (AMS) and provide support in defining related technical requirements.

Also known as archive manager, documentation manager, document management specialist, document controller, document control manager, document manager, lead document controller, records manager.

Managers 60 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: file clerk, 48%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
file clerk 48% covered archivist 32% covered data protection officer 26% covered office clerk 15% covered document management offic… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from document management officer, 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 document management officer already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

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 document management officer needs 34 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
  • access to documents regulations business, administration and law
  • manage archive information skills
  • set up documentation control system information skills
  • document sharing procedures social sciences, journalism and information
  • facilitate access to information information skills
  • oversee record management information skills
  • organise information information skills
  • documentation types social sciences, journalism and information
  • develop classification systems information skills
  • manage content metadata information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Document management officer 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 document management 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.