Skills
36 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
3 skills
Essential skills / competences
17 skills
Optional knowledge
7 skills
Optional skills / competences
9 skills
Overview
Academic support officers help students with learning difficulties, academic obstacles or personal issues by acting as a contact point and arranging extra tuition or educational support.
In job descriptions, look for access programmes, student counselling, learning needs, curriculum objectives, tutoring, study programmes, educational staff, school events, wellbeing and work-related reports.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Academic support officer work is usually close to students, tutors and education teams. The role can include assessing needs, coordinating extra tuition, helping students through access programmes and keeping support activity documented.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes learning difficulties, assessment processes, curriculum objectives, student counselling, tutoring, active listening, youth communication, educational support staff and virtual learning environments.
Salary context
Salary context depends on the size of the student group, responsibility for access programmes, reporting duties, event coordination, contact with families or education staff and whether the post includes tutoring.
Career paths
Paths can move toward student support coordination, access and outreach work, educational programme coordination, study guidance, safeguarding support, tutoring leadership or administration in a school or university setting.
Good to know
Check whether adverts focus on one-to-one student contact, programme coordination, learning-difficulty support, study information, school events, student ambassadors, reports or liaison with teaching staff.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Alternative labels
schools liaison and access officer
university access coordinator
higher education access officer
student support officer
access officer in university
access and outreach officer in university
undergraduate access and outreach officer
university access officer
access and outreach officer
university access and outreach officer
Occupation group
Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified (2359)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2ddde737-28f3-444d-b1f8-ef12cc2df3c7 |
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| ESCO code | 2359.2 |
| ISCO group | 2359 |
| Concept type | Occupation |