Policy Analyst (ANZSCO 224412)

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 Policy Analyst 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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Policy Analyst comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Policy Analyst is one of the widest-field codes in the entire family: VETASSESS states directly that "as policy work is in a great variety of fields, qualifications in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Law, Science or Technology may be relevant." It carries ROL only, reaching three visa subclasses — the graduate visa and both regional streams — with no employer sponsorship and no state nomination. VETASSESS's own page also names Organisation and Methods Analyst among the occupations it excludes from Management Consultant's suitable list, marking Policy Analyst as a distinct code from the "generalist business advisory" cluster around it.

Where these applications come unstuck

The breadth of accepted fields is genuinely useful for applicants worried a non-standard degree rules them out, but it can create false confidence about visa breadth too — a wide accepted field list does not translate into a wide visa list here. ROL-only placement means no employer nomination and no Skills in Demand sponsorship route exist for this code at all, a ceiling entirely separate from how strong the qualification-field match is.

An honest read on this pathway

For someone with genuine policy-analysis experience and almost any humanities, social science, economics, law or science-and-technology qualification, the field test is one of the easiest to clear in this family. The regional-and-graduate-only visa reach is the trade-off: this is not a code that opens an employer-sponsored pathway, however senior the actual policy role or however well the applicant's qualification matches the accepted field list. The absence of an employer-nomination route here sits entirely on the visa list this code carries, not on anything about the strength of an individual case.

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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