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Director (Enterprise / Organisation)

OFO Code: 112101

Last checked 7 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
112101
Occupation
Director (Enterprise / Organisation)
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
MANAGERS
Unit group
1121 · Managing Directors and Chief Executives

Official description
Managing directors and chief executives formulate and review the policies and plan, direct coordinate and evaluate the overall activities of enterprises or organizations (except special interest organizations and government departments) with the support of other managers, usually within guidelines established by a board of directors or a governing body to whom they are answerable for the operations undertaken and results.

More official OFO detail

Alternative titles: Corporate Chairman

Specialisations: Senior / Lead Independent Non-executive Director, Executive Director, Company Director, Independent Non-executive Director, Alternative Director, Managing Director (Enterprise / Organisation), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Deemed (Shadow) Director, Non-executive Director, Managing Director

  • Reviewing the operations and results of the enterprise, or organization, and reporting to boards of directors and governing bodies
  • Authorising material, human and financial resources to implement organizational policies and programs
  • Providing overall leadership and management to the enterprise or organization
  • Determining objectives, strategies, policies and programs for the enterprise or organization
  • Monitoring and evaluating performance of the organization or enterprise against established objectives and policies
  • Ensuring the organization complies with relevant legislation and regulations
  • Representing the organization at official occasions, in negotiations, at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums
  • Representing the organization at official occasions and board meetings, in negotiations, at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums
  • Selecting, or approving the selection of senior staff
  • Establishing and managing budgets, controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources
  • Planning, directing and coordinating the general functioning of an enterprise or organization
  • Consulting with senior subordinate staff and reviewing recommendations and reports

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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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.