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Officers of Non-governmental Organisations

Officers of non-governmental organisations perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks in the running of trade associations, employers’ associations, learned societies, trade unions, charitable organisations and similar bodies.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 15,101
£ 27,240
£ 37,052

New workers start around £15,101. Normal pay is £27,240 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £37,052.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 65,487 vacancies for this type of job

4.17%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Prepares and provides measures of organisational activity for senior officials.

  • Assists with fund raising activities within a specified geographical area.

  • Receives and responds to written correspondence and telephone enquiries from members and other organisations.

  • Arranges meetings, conferences and other events and circulates agenda and other relevant material.

  • Circulates and reports information of relevance to members and interested parties.

  • Maintains and updates records of membership details, subscription fees, mailing lists, etc..

Hard Skills

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

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Administrative Support

  • Invoicing

  • Data Entry

  • Booking (Sales)

  • Finance

  • Numeracy

  • Auditing

  • Customer Relationship Management

  • Project Management

  • Construction

Soft Skills

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

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Detail Oriented

  • Customer Service

  • Administrative Functions

  • Management

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Clerical Works

  • Microsoft Office

  • Organizational Skills

  • Filing

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

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