Where a secondary school department head can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a secondary school department head already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Secondary school department heads manage and supervise their assigned departments to ensure that students are instructed and supported in a safe learning environment. They work closely with the secondary school principal to lead and assist school staff and to optimise communication between school management and teachers, parents, and other districts and schools. They facilitating meetings, develop and review curriculum programmes, observe staff when the principal delegates this work, and assume shared responsibility with the principal for financial resource management.
Also known as school department head, high school head of department, secondary school head of department, head of department in secondary school, head of department in high school.
Managers 44 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: deputy head teacher, 63%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A secondary school department head needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- manage secondary school department management skills
- provide education management support management skills
- provide feedback to teachers communication, collaboration and creativity
- learning technologies education
- advise on teaching methods communication, collaboration and creativity
- assess employees' capability levels management skills
- curriculum standards education
- use office systems management skills
- cooperate with education professionals communication, collaboration and creativity
- identify process improvements management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a secondary school department head does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- special educational needs head teacher 78% covered · difficulty 28.6
- university department head 75% covered · difficulty 32.4
- nursery school head teacher 75% covered · difficulty 31.4
- secondary school head teacher 75% covered · difficulty 32.6
- primary school head teacher 71% covered · difficulty 35.5
- deputy head teacher 67% covered · difficulty 39.9
- dean of faculty 61% covered · difficulty 45.6
- special educational needs coordinator 55% covered · difficulty 51.5
- curriculum administrator 25% covered · difficulty 76.1
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Secondary school department head is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a secondary school department head’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.