Stage Manager (ANZSCO 212316)

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 Stage Manager 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 Stage Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Stage Manager is a Group B occupation on both the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, giving it employer-sponsored visa access that the plainer 'Director' title in the same cluster lacks. It sits among the codes that Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Film and Video Editor, and Video Producer's own pages each separately exclude by name — a role VETASSESS treats as distinct from directing, editing or producing despite working alongside all three on a production.

Where these applications come unstuck

'Stage Manager' can sound like a support or coordination role rather than a creative one, which risks an applicant underselling the fit for this code or assuming a more senior-sounding title like Director better reflects their standing — but Stage Manager reaches a materially better visa list than Director does, so the more modest-sounding title is, in this particular cluster, the better-connected one, not the lesser choice.

An honest read on this pathway

Stage Manager reaches six visas — 186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494 — via combined STSOL and CSOL membership, including both employer-sponsored routes. That out-reaches Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), the occupation whose name is the general term for the whole cluster, which is Short-term Skilled Occupation List only and reaches four visas with no 482 or 186 available under it 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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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