擔任本職位的教育署高級助理署長隸屬教育局常任秘書長，其職責如下：

(a) 就制訂、執行、監察和檢討香港學前至高中教育的課程發展政策，向教育局局長及常任秘書長提供意見和協助；

(b) 領導課程發展處、課程支援分部、教育基建分部及質素保證分部提供專業服務，並督導有關專業服務的發展和協調工作；

(c) 督導香港學前至高中教育質素保證制度(包括視學和學生評估)的發展路向，制訂策略以推行具成效的校本支援計劃和服務，並監察推行情況；

(d) 督導課程發展工作和推行策略，以配合香港不斷轉變的社會狀況及需要，促進學生的全人發展，並監督各項與課程相關的新措施(包括有關憲法、基本法及國家安全教育的措施)的推行情況，以及有關中國歷史和中華文化、「科學、科技、工程、藝術和數學」(STEAM)教育、價值觀教育及應用學習課程的推廣工作；

(e) 督導「資訊科技教育策略」的檢討工作，並監督和監察香港教育城的工作，以支援學生在學習時應用資訊科技；以及

(f) 就教育事宜向教育統籌委員會、課程發展議會、語文教育及研究常務委員會和優質教育基金督導委員會等多個諮詢組織提供高層次的策略性專業意見，並監督香港資優教育學苑。

Reporting to the Permanent Secretary for Education, the Senior Assistant Director of Education is responsible for –

(a) advising the Secretary for Education and Permanent Secretary for Education on and assisting them in the formulation, execution, monitoring and review of policies on curriculum development from pre-primary to senior secondary education in Hong Kong;

(b) directing the delivery, development and alignment of professional services rendered by the Curriculum Development Institute, the Curriculum Support Division, the Education Infrastructure Division and the Quality Assurance Division;

(c) steering the direction of the quality assurance system for education in Hong Kong from pre-primary to senior secondary level including school inspection and student assessment, and formulating strategies on and monitoring the provision of effective school-based support programmes and services;

(d) steering curriculum development and the implementation strategies suited to Hong Kong's changing contexts and needs to foster students' whole person development, and overseeing the implementation of various new curriculum-related initiatives including those relating to the Constitution, the Basic Law and national security education, and promotion of Chinese history and Chinese culture, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education, values education and Applied Learning courses;

(e) steering the review of the Strategy in IT in Education and overseeing and monitoring the work of the Hong Kong Education City to support implementation of IT in learning; and

(f) providing high-level strategic and professional advice on education issues to various advisory bodies including the Education Commission, the Curriculum Development Council, the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee, and overseeing the Hong Kong Academy of Gifted Education.