Program Director (Television or Radio) (ANZSCO 212315)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation 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 Program Director (Television or Radio) on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Program Director (Television or Radio) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Program Director (Television or Radio) is a Group B occupation on both the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching employer-sponsored visas that Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) — its own page's plainer-sounding sibling — does not. Video Producer's own page separately excludes it by name, one of the many cross-exclusions running through the directing and producing cluster this code sits in.

Where these applications come unstuck

'Program Director' sounds like a more senior version of 'Director', but VETASSESS treats it as a genuinely separate occupation with a materially better visa reach — nominating under the generic Director code when the actual role is program direction closes off employer sponsorship for no reason grounded in the work itself. Confirming which of the two titles actually describes the duties matters more here than seniority or job-title convention would suggest.

An honest read on this pathway

Program Director (Television or Radio) reaches six visas — 186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494 — via combined STSOL and CSOL membership, including both employer-sponsored routes. That is a materially wider reach than Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), the plainer-sounding title in the same cluster, which is Short-term Skilled Occupation List only and cannot reach 482 or 186 at all.

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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