Where a special educational needs coordinator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a special educational needs coordinator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Special educational needs coordinators oversee programmes and activities that provide educational support to children with a variety of disabilities. They ensure they are up to date with the latest developments in the special needs research field with the objective of facilitating the special education processes needed to maximise the growth and learning potential of students with special learning needs, and advise the special education principal of these developments and new programme proposals.
Also known as inclusive education coordinator, SEN officer, special education coordinator, SEN director, special educational needs director, special education officer, coordinator of special educational needs, special educational needs officer, SEN coordinator.
Professionals 43 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: special educational needs head teacher, 67%
- 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 special educational needs coordinator needs 21 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- follow research on special needs education information skills
- organise projects to fill education needs management skills
- provide education management support management skills
- learning needs analysis education
- manage government-funded programmes management skills
- promote education programmes communication, collaboration and creativity
- curriculum standards education
- evaluate education programmes information skills
- identify education needs management skills
- special needs education education
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a special educational needs coordinator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- secondary school department head 61% covered · difficulty 44.1
- university department head 59% covered · difficulty 46.7
- dean of faculty 48% covered · difficulty 56
- education programme coordinator 33% covered · difficulty 69.3
- curriculum administrator 28% covered · difficulty 73
- international student exchange coordinator 22% covered · difficulty 77
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Special educational needs coordinator is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 special educational needs coordinator’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.