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Professionals · code 2422

Policy administration professionals

Policy administration professionals develop and analyse policies guiding the design, implementation and modification of government and commercial operations and programmes. Tasks include - (a) liaising and consulting with programme administrators and other interested parties to identify policy needs; (b) reviewing existing policies and legislation to identify anomalies and out-of-date provisions; (c) researching social, economic and industrial trends, and client expectations of programmes and services provided; (d) formulating and analysing policy options, preparing briefing papers and recommendations for policy changes and advising on preferred options; (e) assessing impacts, financial implications, interactions with other programmes and political and administrative feasibility of policies; (f) conducting threat and risk assessments and developing responses; (g) reviewing operations and programmes to ensure consistency with policies of the organization. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Intelligence officer - Policy analyst - Political adviser

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 336 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • political affairs officer
  • policy officer
  • humanitarian advisor
  • community development officer
  • parliamentary assistant
  • intelligence officer
  • civil service administrative officer
  • social service consultant
  • government planning inspector
  • sports programme coordinator
  • employment programme coordinator
  • healthcare consultant
  • trade development officer
  • international relations officer

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

58.2
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 41.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 41.8 = 58.2

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

17.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 5 US jobs

13.1
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 18 · hand skill 9.6 · cramped spaces 11.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 17.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 50, while the average is 41.8. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 50

    Researching social, economic and industrial trends, and client expectations of programmes and services provided

    Medium
  2. 44

    Formulating and analysing policy options, preparing briefing papers and recommendations for policy changes, and advising on preferred options

    Low
  3. 43.5

    Conducting threat and risk assessments and developing responses

    Low
  4. 43.5

    Reviewing operations and programmes to ensure consistency with policies of the organization.

    Low
  5. 41.5

    Reviewing existing policies and legislation to identify anomalies and out-of-date provisions

    Low
  6. 39

    Assessing impacts, financial implications, interactions with other programmes and political and administrative feasibility of policies

    Low
  7. 31

    Liaising and consulting with programme administrators and other interested parties to identify policy needs

    Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
74.5
AI does it for you
48

Helping wins by 26.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2244, 2249

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.4. This one is below that.