Post Office Manager (ANZSCO 142115)

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 Post Office 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).

Processing priority

Post Office 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 Post Office Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Post Office Manager is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, under the family's standard four-pathway structure. It reaches the graduate 407, Skilled Work Regional and Skills in Demand Regional on the Regional Occupation List — broader regional reach than most of the other narrow ROL-only titles in this family, though still without state nomination or any employer-sponsored pathway outside a labour agreement.

Where these applications come unstuck

Most of the Australian post office network is run by licensees or franchisees rather than direct employees of Australia Post, which makes this code's self-employment evidence rule the practical crux for most applicants. VETASSESS's general rule applies in full: a self-employed applicant needs business registration or an accountant's letter, a statutory declaration of duties, and payment evidence such as client invoices matched to bank statements or tax records — a heavier bundle than the standard employer Statement of Service, and one most post office managers should assume applies to them by default.

An honest read on this pathway

The reach here is genuinely wider than the many 494-only codes elsewhere in this family, giving a post office manager real regional and graduate-visa options. But because the underlying business model is overwhelmingly licensee-operated, the self-employment evidence bar — not the visa list — is the thing most likely to decide whether an application under this code actually succeeds, and it is worth preparing before the qualification and duties evidence rather than after.

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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