助理教育主任主要負責以下職務： (a) 任教官立中學的中六及以下班級； (b) 擔任班主任； (c) 籌辦及推行課外活動； (d) 評核及記錄學生成績；以及 (e) 協助處理校內的特別職務、行政工作及非教學職務，例如編訂學校課程、推行公民教育／德育／性教育、處理學校訓育工作、提供學生輔導和升學及就業輔導，以及協助舉行校內／公開考試等。 [備註：本局會根據官立中學不時調整的運作需要及獲取錄人員個別的學歷和經驗，調派他們任教指定科目。他們或須任教並非其在申請書內指明的科目。]

Assistant Education Officers are mainly deployed on the following types of duties – (a) to engage in class teaching up to Secondary 6 level in a government secondary school; (b) to be a Class Master/Mistress; (c) to organize and conduct extra-curricular activities; (d) to assess and to record students' attainment; and (e) to assist in the performance of special responsibilities, administrative work and non-teaching duties of the school, such as school curriculum development, civil/moral/sex education, school discipline, student counseling, career guidance, school/public examinations, etc. [Remarks : The Bureau, in deploying a successful candidate to a particular subject, will take into account the operational needs of government secondary schools that may be adjusted from time to time and the candidate's qualification and experience. A successful candidate may be required to teach subjects other than those he/she has indicated in his/her application.]