Policy and Planning Manager (ANZSCO 132411)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Policy and Planning Manager on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Policy and Planning Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Policy and Planning Manager is a VETASSESS Group B occupation on ROL and CSOL, reaching five visa subclasses — Employer Nomination, Skills in Demand and both regional streams, but no state nomination and no independent points-tested visa at all, since ROL sits below MLTSSL in what it unlocks. This code carries the longest exclusion list found anywhere in the family, twelve named occupations, with Policy Analyst listed first. VETASSESS does not explain on the page why an analyst role fails the test; the pattern elsewhere in this family (Environmental Manager against Environmental Consultant) suggests the same advise-versus-run distinction, but here it is asserted by exclusion, not spelled out.

Where these applications come unstuck

A Policy Analyst who has been promoted into managing a policy function, or whose title simply reads more senior than the work, is the applicant most likely to nominate this code wrongly — VETASSESS excludes Policy Analyst by name but never states the reasoning, so there is no test on the page to check your own duties against beyond the bare exclusion. The list also excludes Quality Assurance Manager and Regulatory Affairs Manager, two codes elsewhere in this same family, and both of those pages return the exclusion — nominate any of the three for duties that actually belong to another and the evidence will not corroborate the occupation claimed.

An honest read on this pathway

Open, but narrower than most of its siblings: five subclasses, no state nomination route, and the widest exclusion list in the family to read past before nominating. An applicant genuinely running a policy function rather than analysing one has a real pathway through Employer Nomination or Skills in Demand; an applicant whose actual title is closer to Policy Analyst does not, and VETASSESS gives no test beyond the exclusion itself to check which side of that line the real duties sit on.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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