Retirement Village Manager (ANZSCO 141912)
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 Retirement Village 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 Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Processing priority
Retirement Village Manager isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.
Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Retirement Village Manager comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Retirement Village Manager is a Group C occupation, AQF Diploma or higher, assessed under the same four-pathway structure as the rest of the family — VETASSESS's own wording for the no-relevant-field pathway requires at least four years of employment including one highly relevant year within the last five. As a managerial title it also needs an organisational chart, and VETASSESS's Accommodation and Hospitality Managers nec page confirms Retirement Village Manager has its own dedicated code, explicitly excluding it from that nec catch-all rather than folding it into the residual category.
Where these applications come unstuck
A retirement village combines several distinct services — accommodation, sometimes basic care, community management — and an applicant should be careful the employment evidence describes the managerial and operational duties of running the facility itself, not care duties, which sit under different aged-care occupations assessed by a different authority. Nominating this code on the strength of a broader aged-living job title without matching duties risks a mismatch VETASSESS assesses against, not the title claimed.
An honest read on this pathway
This code reaches only Skills in Demand Regional — no graduate 407, no state nomination, no employer sponsorship outside a labour agreement, the same narrow reach as Bed and Breakfast Operator and several other small-scale accommodation titles in this family. A retirement village manager's realistic pathway runs through a regional employer and this one visa specifically, not a broader menu of options.
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
Whether nominating Retirement Village Manager is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.
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