Community Arts Worker (ANZSCO 272611)
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 Community Arts Worker 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 Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Community Arts Worker comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Community Arts Worker is a VETASSESS Group B occupation, assessed through the same four pathways as Flying Instructor and Master Fisher: a Bachelor-level qualification, with relevance traded against one to six years of employment. On the standard skilled lists it reaches the Temporary Skills Shortage visa, subclass 407, plus the regional 491 and the regional-sponsored 494 — no permanent or employer-sponsored pathway beyond the regional route.
Where these applications come unstuck
VETASSESS names Recreation Officer directly as an excluded occupation on the Community Arts Worker page, alongside Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals and Art Teacher (Private Tuition) — work that fits one of those better does not belong under this code. On the evidence gathered here, the exclusion runs one way: Recreation Officer's own page names School Teacher (Sports) and Physical Education Teacher as its exclusions, not Community Arts Worker, so someone checking only the Recreation Officer page would not see this reciprocal warning and could assume the two codes do not overlap at all.
An honest read on this pathway
Someone doing genuine community arts facilitation work has a real four-pathway route into this occupation, with the usual Group B flexibility on qualification relevance versus years of experience. The narrower visa reach compared with Recreation Officer's own list membership is worth weighing early, since the two occupations sit close enough in subject matter that an applicant might otherwise default to whichever code looks easier to nominate rather than the one that actually matches the work they do.
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 Community Arts Worker 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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