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Sports Coach or Instructor
OFO Code: 342204
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 342204
- Occupation
- Sports Coach or Instructor
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3422 · Sports Coaches, Instructors and Officials
Official description
Sports coaches, instructors and officials work with amateur and professional sportspersons to enhance performance, encourage greater participation in sport, and organize and officiate in sporting events according to established rules.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Rhythmic Gymnastics Coach, Dressage Instructor, Scuba Instructor, Diving Coach, Gymnastics Coach or Instructor, Show Jumping Instructor, Cricket Coach, Football Coach, Snowboarding Instructor, Martial Arts Instructor, Diving Instructor (Open Water), Callisthenics Instructor, Tennis Coach, Polo Coach, Swimming Coach or Instructor, Snorkelling Instructor, Skiing Instructor, Squash Coach, Equine Tutor / Riding Instructor, Surface Supply Breathing Apparatus (SSBA) Instructor, Athletic Coach, Water Polo Coach, Snowsport Instructor, Basketball Coach, Dive Master
- Planning, developing and implementing training and practice sessions
- Formulating competitive strategy, developing game plans and directing athletes and players during games or athletic events
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses of athletes or teams
- Analysing and evaluating athletes' or teams' performances and modifying training programs
- Motivating and preparing athletes or teams for competitive events or games
- Officiating at sporting events or athletic competitions to maintain standards of play and to ensure that game rules and safety regulations are observed
- Compiling scores and other athletic records
- Judging the performance of competitors, awarding points, imposing penalties for infractions and determining results
- Monitoring and analysing technique and performance, and determining how future improvements can be made
- Developing, planning and coordinating competitive schedules and programs
- Recording lapsed time and keeping scores during events or competitions;
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
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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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.