Program or Project Administrator (ANZSCO 511112)

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 or Project Administrator 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 or Project Administrator comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Program or Project Administrator is a VETASSESS Group C occupation reaching all six visa subclasses, matching Contract Administrator as the widest reach in the family. Its sole named field of study is Project Management, and VETASSESS describes the role as planning and undertaking administration of organisational programs, special projects and support services — explicitly requiring "an organisational chart" as evidence, and warning on its own page that applicants "performing generic administrative tasks with insufficient application of proper project management methodology and associated tools will not be considered at the required skill level."

Where these applications come unstuck

It excludes Contract Administrator and Office Manager by name, and its own page draws the line against Contract Administrator on one specific ground: this code carries no contract-negotiation authority, only program/project administrative support. Self-employment as claimed employment is explicitly evidenced here with an itemised checklist — accountant or legal-team statement, statutory declaration, invoices matched to bank statements — a bundle not published on any of the seven real-estate/sales pages in this same family.

An honest read on this pathway

A genuinely wide, employer-sponsorship-eligible pathway, but VETASSESS's own warning about "generic administrative tasks" signals this code gets real scrutiny for applicants whose actual work leaned clerical rather than genuinely running a program or project with delegated authority. The organisational chart is the concrete evidence VETASSESS uses to test that distinction, so an applicant without genuine program or project authority to point to should expect this to be the point examined most closely.

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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