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. A successful applicant may be required to teach any subjects assigned by the Education Bureau.

Applicants should have - (a)(i) a Hong Kong Bachelor of Education degree majoring in English Language, or equivalent; or (a)(ii) a Hong Kong bachelor's degree majoring in English Language, or equivalent, and a certificate in education majoring in English Language from a Hong Kong tertiary education institution, or equivalent; (b) attained 'Level 3' proficiency or above in English Language in the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers (LPAT) or have been exempted from the said language proficiency requirement by the Education Bureau; and (c) met the language proficiency requirements of 'Level 2' results in the two language papers (Use of Chinese and Use of English) in the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE), or equivalent. [See Notes (a) to (c)] [Remarks: The entry requirement set out above is applicable to English Language teachers recruited in or after the 2004/05 school year. Such applicants who hold a Hong Kong bachelor's degree majoring in English Language, or equivalent, but do not have a certificate in education majoring in English Language from a Hong Kong tertiary education institution, or equivalent, may also apply. However, they will have to attain the required teacher training within three years from the date of appointment. For serving English Language teachers holding a permanent post in local public sector and private secondary day schools which offer a full curriculum before the 2004/05 school year, they should have a Hong Kong bachelor's degree majoring in English Language or equivalent. All applicants of subject B should possess the requisite results in CRE and LPAT. Applicants who have not been exempted from the LPAT by way of qualification but have met, with the exception of classroom language, the basic language proficiency requirement in all the core language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) of the LPAT may also apply. However, they have to attain the language proficiency requirement on Classroom Language Assessment of the LPAT within one year from the date of appointment.]