Child Care Centre Manager (ANZSCO 134111)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Child Care Centre Manager on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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 Child Care Centre Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACECQA assesses this code against a Diploma-level (or higher) ACECQA-recognised education and care qualification plus three years of full-time employment experience, completed after the qualification, with at least six months of that experience current within the last three years. Because the employment-experience test applies here (rather than English proficiency, which this code does not require), the evidence set for Child Care Centre Manager is built almost entirely around a documented management-level work history rather than a language test — the opposite emphasis from the Child Care Worker or Early Childhood Teacher codes in the same family.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code has no English-language test, which some applicants read as meaning it's an easier code overall — it isn't; the three-year, management-level employment requirement, completed only after the qualification was obtained, is the harder bar to document. Experience that predates the Diploma, or that sits below management responsibility, doesn't count toward the three years even if it was in a childcare setting. Applicants sometimes assume seniority or a manager job title alone is sufficient — ACECQA's own equivalence framework decides qualification-and-experience adequacy against its published tiers, not against a title on a payslip.

An honest read on this pathway

Child Care Centre Manager sits on the MLTSSL, reaching visas including 189, 190 and 407, the strongest visa footprint in this family alongside Early Childhood Teacher. A positive assessment supports migration; actually managing a centre still sits inside the same regulatory layer as every other code here — a state Working With Children Check for the state of employment, on top of any state-specific requirements the centre itself operates under. Childcare-sector employer sponsors in this family are concentrated in regional DAMAs (NT, SA Regional, Far North Queensland) rather than a single national scheme.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

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