Occupational Instructor
OFO Code: 242402
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 242402
- Occupation
- Occupational Instructor
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2424 · Training and Staff Development Professionals
Official description
Training and staff development professionals plan, develop, implement and evaluate training and development programs to ensure management and staff acquire the skills and develop the competencies required by organizations to meet organizational objectives.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Work at Heights Instructor, Maintenance Instructor, Business Leadership / Executive Coach, Product Trainer, Systems Trainer, Business Management Skills Trainer, Police Instructor, Mechanical Instructor, Welding Instructor, On-the-job Trainer, Metalwork Instructor, Business Skills Trainer, Operator Trainer
- Designing, coordinating, scheduling and conducting training and development programs that can be delivered in the form of individual and group instruction, and facilitating workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences
- Liaising with external training providers to arrange delivery of specific training and development programs
- Gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems
- Preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models, and supporting training reference documentation
- Identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations
- Monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables
- Setting human resource development objectives and evaluating learning outcomes
- Promoting internal and external training and development, and evaluating these promotional activities
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned