Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pensions administrator can go next

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

Pensions administrators perform administrative duties in the management of pension schemes, ensuring the correct calculation of client's pension benefits, compliance with legal requirements, drafting reports and communicating relevant information to customers. They work either in the private or the public sector.

Also known as pensions technician, pension plans clerk, pension agent, pension fund administrator, responsible for pensions administrations, pensions administration officer, pension administrator, investments administrator, pension scheme administrator, administrator of pensions.

Technicians and associate professionals 28 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: social security officer, 48%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social security officer 48% covered financial broker 42% covered pension scheme manager 34% covered insurance collector 33% covered securities broker 32% covered pensions administrator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pensions administrator, 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 pensions administrator 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 pensions administrator 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
  • calculate employee benefits information skills
  • communicate with beneficiaries communication, collaboration and creativity
  • types of pensions business, administration and law
  • advise on social security benefits communication, collaboration and creativity
  • government social security programmes social sciences, journalism and information
  • social security law business, administration and law
  • ensure information transparency information skills
  • provide financial product information communication, collaboration and creativity
  • protect client interests communication, collaboration and creativity
  • actuarial science natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Pensions administrator is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 pensions administrator’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.