Records Manager designs, implements, and administers record systems and related information services, to support efficient access, movement, updating, storage, retention and disposal of files and other organisational records.

Skill Level

1

Specialisations

• Freedom of Information Officer

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed above.

Skills Assessment authority for Records Manager is Vocational & Education Training Assessment (VETASSESS). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• Qualification assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field of study AND at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years

OR

• Qualification assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher WITH an additional qualificationat AQF Diploma level in a highly relevant field of study AND at least two years of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years

OR

• Qualification assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher WITHOUT a highly relevant field of study AND at least three years of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years
• Applicants must meet both the qualification and employment requirements to obtain a positive skills assessment
• Highly relevant fields of study include:
  • Records Management
  • Records/Information Management
  • Records Keeping
  • Information Technology

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According to VETASSESS, your pre-qualification experience may be considered in the skills assessment if it meets the following requirements:

• 5 years of relevant pre-qualification employment; and
• 1 year of highly relevant employment within the past five years

Develop, maintain, implement and deliver systems for keeping, updating, accessing and preserving records, files, information, historical documents and artefacts.

Tasks

• Evaluating and preserving records for administrative, historical, legal, evidential and other purposes
• Preparing record-keeping systems, indexes, guides and procedures for archival research and for the retention and destruction of records
• Identifying and classifying specimens and objects, and arranging restoration work
• Examining items and arranging examinations to determine condition and authenticity
• Designing and revising medical record forms
• Managing organisations’ central records systems
• Analysing the record-keeping needs of organisations, and translating these needs into record management systems
• Maintaining computerised and other record management systems and record forms, and advising on their usage
• Controlling access to confidential information, and recommending codes of practice and procedures for accessing records
• Developing record cataloguing, coding and classification systems, and monitoring their use

Skill Level

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Occupations in this Group

• 224211 Archivist
• 224212 Gallery or Museum Curator
• 224213 Health Information Manager
• 224214 Records Manager