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Business, Research and Administrative Professionals n.e.c.

Workers in this unit group advise on the formulation and implementation of policy in the public and private sectors, develop and implement substantial business, statistical and administrative systems, and perform a variety of functions not elsewhere classified in MINOR GROUP 242: Business, research and administrative professionals.

Average Salary

£44,446

New workers start around £21,099. Normal pay is £44,446 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £77,104.

Jobs

45,126

The number of jobs in the career for the current year.

Daily Tasks

  • Negotiates and monitors contracted out services provided by the private sector to local government studies and acts upon any legislation that may affect the local authority.

  • Registers and maintains records of all births, deaths and marriages in local authority area, issues appropriate certificates and reports any suspicious causes of death to the coroner.

  • Co-ordinates and directs the activities of Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government.

  • Advises national and local government on the interpretation and implementation of policy decisions, acts and regulations, and provides technical assistance in the formulation of policy.

  • Controls and administers budgets.

  • Prepares and reviews operational and financial reports.

  • Develops plans, sets objectives and monitors and evaluates performance.

  • Recruits and manages staff, assigns and delegates tasks and duties, makes changes in procedures to deal with variations in workload.

  • Analyses internal processes and systems, recommends and implements procedural and policy changes.

  • Coordinates the organisation.

Hard skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

  • Policy Development

  • Public Affairs

  • Public Policies

  • Economics

  • Advising

Soft skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

  • Communications

  • Research

  • Planning

  • Management

  • Influencing Skills

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.