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Heritage Consultant

OFO Code: 263206

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
263206
Occupation
Heritage Consultant
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
PROFESSIONALS
Unit group
2632 · Sociologists, Anthropologists and Related Professionals

Official description
Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals investigate and describe the structure of societies, the origin and evolution of societies, and the interdependence between environmental conditions and human activities. They provide advice on the practical application of their findings in the formulation of economic and social policies.

More official OFO detail
  • Advising on the practical application of findings in the formulation of economic and social policies for population groups and regions, and for the development of markets
  • Tracing the development of humanity through the material remains of its past, such as dwellings, temples, tools, pottery, coins, weapons, or sculpture
  • Tracing the origin and evolution of humanity through the study of changing characteristics and cultural and social institutions
  • Conducting research on the origin, development, structure, social patterns, organizations and inter-relationships of human society
  • Evaluating the outcome of political decisions concerning social policy
  • Preparing scholarly papers and reports
  • Studying physical and climatic aspects of areas and regions, and correlating these findings with economic, social and cultural activities
  • Developing theories, models and methods to interpret and describe social phenomena
  • Analyzing and evaluating social data

2. Demand status

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

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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.

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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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