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Chief Information Officer

OFO Code: 133101

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
133101
Occupation
Chief Information Officer
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
MANAGERS
Unit group
1331 · Information and Communications Technology Service Managers

Official description
Information and communications technology service managers plan, direct, and coordinate the acquisition, development, maintenance and use of computer and telecommunication systems.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: ICT / IT Manager, Chief Technology Officer, ICT / IT Director

  • Establishing and managing budgets, controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources
  • Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff
  • Overseeing the security of ICT systems
  • Evaluating the organization's technology use and needs and recommending improvements, such as hardware and software upgrades
  • Assigning, reviewing, managing and leading the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers
  • Directing the selection and installation of ICT resources and the provision of user training
  • Directing ICT operations, analysing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines
  • Representing the enterprise or organization at ICT related conventions, seminars and conferences
  • Formulating and directing information and communication technology (ICT) strategies, policies and plans
  • Establishing and directing operational and administrative procedures
  • Consulting with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements and specifying technology to meet those needs

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.

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3. Salary evidence

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5. Qualification

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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.
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