programme funding managertoanimal facility manager
A programme funding manager already meets 16% of what the animal facility manager role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.
16%
78.9/ 100
1 Share of the animal facility manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the programme funding manager profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A animal facility manager role treats 3 of its required skills as things a programme funding manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- apply strategic thinking
- manage budgets
- perform project management
What stands in the way is 16 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 3 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A animal facility manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a programme funding manager background worth leading with.
- already held apply strategic thinking management skills
- already held perform project management management skills
- already held manage budgets management skills
All 3 carried skills, including the 3 the animal facility manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 17 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held work effectively with animal-related organisations required
- required, not held implement strategic management required
- required, not held respond to visitor complaints required
- required, not held speak about your work in public required
- required, not held speak different languages required
- required, not held develop visitor engagement strategies required
- required, not held manage teamwork required
- required, not held manage zoo staff required
- required, not held organise zoological exhibitions required
- required, not held oversee animal management required
- required, not held zoo community required
- required, not held customer relationship management required
- required, not held environmental legislation required
- required, not held zoo regulations required
- required, not held read zoo reports required
- optional, not held study a collection optional
- required, not held zoo exhibit design required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a animal facility manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 develop visitor engagement strategies skill · occupation specific
- 02 manage teamwork skill · sector specific
- 03 manage zoo staff skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 3 skills that carry over
- already held apply strategic thinking skill
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held perform project management skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held study a collection optional
15 held skills the animal facility manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse business plans skill
- not needed by the target role analyse goal progress skill
- not needed by the target role coach employees skill
- not needed by the target role develop professional network skill
- not needed by the target role find grants skill
- not needed by the target role funding methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role lead a team skill
- not needed by the target role manage government funding skill
- not needed by the target role manage government-funded programmes skill
- not needed by the target role manage grant applications skill
- not needed by the target role meet deadlines skill
- not needed by the target role monitor charity's budget skill
- not needed by the target role tolerate stress skill
- not needed by the target role use communication techniques skill
- not needed by the target role write work-related reports skill
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held zoo community required
- required, not held zoo exhibit design required
- required, not held customer relationship management required
- required, not held environmental legislation required
- required, not held zoo regulations required
Other moves recorded from programme funding manager
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.