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).

Processing priority

Community Arts Worker isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Community Arts Worker comes from:

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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