Media Producer (excluding Video) (ANZSCO 212112)
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 Media Producer (excluding Video) 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
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Media Producer (excluding Video) comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Media Producer (excluding Video) is one of only two Group A occupations in this family, alongside Artistic Director — Group A requires an AQF Bachelor degree or higher unconditionally in a highly relevant field, with no lesser-field pathway available. Its own title carves video work out by name; Video Producer, elsewhere in this family, is a separately coded occupation that explicitly excludes Media Producer from its own suitable list in return.
Where these applications come unstuck
The unconditional field requirement bites here exactly as it does for Artistic Director: there is no route to offset a non-relevant qualification with extra years of employment. A media producer whose actual current output is mostly video-based risks nominating under the wrong side of the video/non-video boundary the two titles draw against each other — a distinction worth checking directly rather than assuming from the job title alone.
An honest read on this pathway
Media Producer (excluding Video) reaches a single visa — subclass 494 — despite carrying the same Group A qualification bar as Artistic Director, which reaches all eight visas this family covers. Two occupations with an identical, unconditionally strict qualification requirement sit at opposite ends of the visa-reach spectrum, entirely on list placement rather than on how demanding the assessment itself is.
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 Media Producer (excluding Video) 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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