Regional Education Manager (ANZSCO 134412)
On the Regional 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 Regional Education 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.
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).
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Regional Education Manager comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Regional Education Manager is a VETASSESS Group A occupation on ROL only, reaching three visa subclasses — Employer Nomination is not among them, since ROL sits below the CSOL threshold that unlocks direct sponsorship. VETASSESS names School Administrator as a suitable alternative title, and states that Regional Education Managers usually have qualifications in Teacher Education and in Educational System Administration — a specific, named field-of-study expectation not stated the same way for its education-cluster siblings.
Where these applications come unstuck
The narrow visa reach is the main issue here, not a confusable-code trap: with no CSOL, there is no direct employer-sponsored route through this code regardless of the employer or the region, only state nomination and the two regional streams. Someone whose role spans both regional-system administration and individual-school leadership should also check School Principal and Education Managers nec, both of which carry CSOL and reach materially more of the visa system, if the actual duties genuinely fit either description.
An honest read on this pathway
One of the narrower pathways in the education cluster on paper — three subclasses, no employer sponsorship — and specific enough in its qualification expectation (Teacher Education plus Educational System Administration) that it is not a natural fallback for a general education-management background. The regional focus is real, not a euphemism: this code is for managing education provision across a region, not running a single school.
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.
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