Community Arts Worker - ANZSCO 272611

Community Arts Worker identifies issues of local need, concerns and aspirations through community consultation, and designs and implements strategies to facilitate and encourage community arts projects and happenings, and promote the value of community cultural development.

Community Arts Worker may perform the following tasks:

• researching and analysing community issues, needs and problems
• developing, evaluating and maintaining community resources and programs
• evaluating data and writing reports such as submissions requesting funding for continuing programs and new projects
• identifying issues of local need, concerns and aspirations through community consultation
• organising local sporting, cultural and recreational events and activities such as community functions, hobby classes, community arts projects and sporting competitions
• providing support while exploring alternatives with clients who experience difficulties such as marital problems, unemployment, illness and drug abuse
• assessing risks and providing intensive short-term crisis counselling for victims of domestic violence, child abuse, disasters and other crises
• assisting to establish and administer neighbourhood houses, community groups, employment training programs and other services

Are you Eligible to Live and Work in Australia as a Community Arts Worker?

Community Arts Worker is classified as Group B occupations by Vetassess. The criteria for skills assessment of Group B occupations are the following :

• Qualification(s) assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment in the last five years; Or
• Qualification(s) assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree with an additional qualification at least Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Diploma level in a highly relevant field of study and at least two years of post qualification highly relevant employment in the last five years; Or
• Qualification(s) assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree without a highly relevant field of study and at least three years of post-qualification highly relevant employment in the last five years;

According to Vetassess, if you have pre-qualification employment and if all of your employment is before your qualification assessed at the AQF bachelor degree level , you are required to have five years of highly relevant employment in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level completed in the last five years.

If you wish to check your eligibility to migrate permanently to Australia as a Community Arts Worker, please fill out the below assessment form. The assessment is free. After submitting the form, a registered migration consultant will look into the information and advise you of the outcome of the assessment via your email address.