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Where an environmental education officer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an environmental education officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Environmental education officers are responsible for promoting environmental conservation and development. They visit schools and businesses to give talks, they produce educational resources and websites, they lead guided nature walks, they provide relevant training courses, and they help with volunteer activities and conservation projects. Many gardens employ an environmental education officer to offer guidance during school visits.

Also known as ecotourism guide, environmental educator, environmental trainer, environmental communications officer, environmental public relations specialist, environmental education trainer, environmental teacher, environment education teacher, environment education trainer, environmental education specialist, environmental education teacher, environment education officer.

Service and sales workers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: curator of horticulture, 29%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
curator of horticulture 29% covered assistant outdoor animator 25% covered specialised outdoor animator 20% covered nature conservation officer 20% covered marine biologist 19% covered environmental education o… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from environmental education 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 an environmental education officer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An environmental education officer needs 14 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
  • ecopedagogy education
  • educate the public about wildlife communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor interventions in the outdoors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage outdoor resources information skills
  • identify plants characteristics handling and moving
  • implement risk management for outdoors information skills
  • provide training in sustainable tourism development and management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • animate in the outdoors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on nature conservation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • educate people about nature communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an environmental education officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Environmental education officer is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. 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 an environmental education 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.