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Advertising and Public Relations Manager
OFO Code: 122201
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 122201
- Occupation
- Advertising and Public Relations Manager
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1222 · Advertising and Public Relations Managers
Official description
Advertising and public relations managers plan, direct and coordinate the advertising, public relations and public information activities of enterprises and organizations or of enterprises that provide related services to other enterprises and organizations.
More official OFO detail
Alternative titles: PR Accounts Executive
Specialisations: Media Advisor / Manager, Advertising Manager, Media and Communications Manager, Public Relations Manager, Chief Communications Manager / Officer, Relationship Manager, Green Marketer, Corporate Relations Manager
- Establishing and managing budgets and controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources
- Planning, directing and coordinating the advertising and public relations activities of an enterprise or organization
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff
- Negotiating advertising contracts with clients or with newspapers, radio and television stations, sports and cultural organizations and advertising agencies
- Leading and managing the activities of advertising and public relations staff
- Planning and directing daily operations
- Establishing and directing operational and administrative procedures
- Planning and managing information programmes to inform legislators, the mass media and the general public about the plans, accomplishments and points of view of the enterprise or organization
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.
3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.