Arts Administrator or Manager (ANZSCO 139911)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Arts Administrator or 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.

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 Arts Administrator or Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Arts Administrator or Manager is a VETASSESS Group B occupation and one of only three codes in this family reaching the full eight-visa house, carried on MLTSSL and CSOL together. VETASSESS excludes Artistic Director, Gallery or Museum Curator, Stage Manager, Media Producer (excluding video) and Video Producer by name — separating the administrative and organisational-management side of the arts sector from the creative-direction and production roles that sit alongside it.

Where these applications come unstuck

Someone whose role blends administration with genuine creative or curatorial authority — a gallery director who also curates, a producer who also manages the business side of a company — needs to check which side of that split their actual employment evidence supports. VETASSESS's exclusion list draws the line at named creative-direction titles specifically, not at seniority or budget responsibility, so a senior arts role is not automatically an administrator role just because it carries management duties alongside the creative ones.

An honest read on this pathway

The strongest reach in the family alongside Environmental Manager and Primary Health Organisation Manager — full eight-subclass access including the independent points-tested and graduate routes. The trade-off is precision at nomination: the named exclusions (Artistic Director, Curator, Stage Manager, Producer) are all plausible neighbouring job titles in the same sector, and getting the wrong one means the evidence is being tested against creative-direction criteria this code does not actually assess.

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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