Description

The Multimedia Specialist needs to manage and change the computer graphic images, audio, animation into simple multimedia programs to ensure the production of content and data for CD-ROMS. These data may also hold to be valid for information kiosks, e-commerce platform, web sites, mobile telephone resources, electronic gaming environments, entertainment, and education products for web programming, authoring, scripting, andmany other functions.

These days, multimedia is being used extensively to fulfill different business requirements whether it is presentations, advertising, website designs, webinars and mobile web designing. Therefore, business organizations need individuals who have expertise in creating multimedia packages consisting of audio, video, graphics, images and textual information. A multimedia specialist is a professional capable of fulfilling all these requirements for businesses. From website designing to video production and multimedia tools, the professional manages all.

Typical employers of multimedia specialists are government agencies, educational organizations, engineering firms, IT firms, advertising organizations, the telecommunication industry and publishers.

You can find the complete description of the multimedia specialist 261211 job duties and role in the ANZSCO (Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations). The Australian Computer Society assesses the eligibility of an immigrant for the job role of a multimedia analyst. The applicant is required to submit an RPL skills application mentioning their attainments and technical ability to ensure the authority that they are perfect for this role.

Skill Level

1

Alternative Titles

Multimedia Developer

Multimedia Programmer

Electronic Game Developer

Multimedia specialist 261211 job description:

There are also ANZSCO alternative titles for a 261211 multimedia specialist like the multimedia developer, the electronic game developer and the multimedia programmer.

The job description of the multimedia specialist, as per ANZSCO, provides an overview of the core job requirements like:

Multimedia specialists are those professionals who have expertise in audio, video and other digital media.

Professionals combine several media like sound, graphics, videos, animations, text and photos together and create multimedia presentations, games, motion pictures, websites and so on.

They need to be aware of the authoring programs, file transfer software and content management applications.

Professionals must be capable of resolving any technical problems that may come up in the production and processing of multimedia files.

They may need to manage website production, thus requiring web programming and scripting knowledge.

Skill Assessment Authority

ACS (Australian Computer Society)

Occupation Lists

The following skill list should be applicable for this occupation

Combined Skilled Occupation List (STSOL MLTSSL)

RSMS Occupations List (RSMSL)

Medium Long Term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL)

This occupation does not feature in the following skills list

Short-Term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL)

Labor Marketing Testing Required for 457 List (LMTL)

Visa Provision

Since this occupation features in the Short-term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL), the candidates can apply for the following Visas

• Skilled Nominated 190 visa
• Skilled Regional Nominated 489 visa

Apart from that, if the candidate has joined an employment firm, they may apply for the GSM Visa too. It is better to check for the online assessment list before applying for a visa in this category because it may not always be in demand. As a result, if it isn't mentioned in the online list, the candidate may need to search for an employer-sponsored.

Multimedia Specialist 261211 required qualifications:

The Multimedia specialist educational requirements include a bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in a field this is related to multimedia and technologies like computing, computer science, multimedia technology, animation, design, visual arts, software development, web development and business information systems (BIS).

A related working experience of at least 5 years you can use as compensation for formal education in certain cases.

Required skills:

Besides multimedia specialist qualifications, the ANZSCO provides some core ICT units or skills related to this occupation. An applicant is required to confirm the ability to work as a multimedia specialist in the RPL application. Aside from technical skills, the below-provided characteristics are essential for a successful multimedia specialist:

• Teamwork abilities
• Highly creative and imaginative
• An eagle eye for details and design
• Organizational and time management traits
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• A willing-to-learn attitude
• Excellent communication skills with clients and technical team members

Multimedia specialist 261211 roles and responsibilities:

The multimedia specialist’s roles and responsibilities are dependent on the requirements of the company. However, the following are tasks a multimedia specialist has to perform according to ANZSCO:

• They have communication with clients to know their needs.
• These professionals recommend to clients what can be feasible technically and what will be an effective solution to their requirements.
• The multimedia specialist works in collaboration with animator web designers, programmers and video producers. In addition, they supervise the design team or guide them if required.
• The professional collaborates with network experts or network engineers regarding network-related problems with websites like data integrity, web hosting, data security, user access, space allocation, backup and recovery.
• Professionals test the multimedia products for any technical errors or faults and make the required changes.
• They author the files in one program by means of programming languages like C++ or Java.
• The expert uses different computer-aided design packages like Flash Player, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and Apple Final Cut Pro.
• They present the final designs to clients and receive their approval.
• Professionals offer help in specifying and designing internet strategies and web-based methods.
• They work with a multimedia team consisting of a project manager, interface designer, video specialist, multimedia programmer, multimedia producer and audio specialist and work as an individualized entity depending on the organization’s requirements.

As mentioned previously, a multimedia specialist in Australia is required to make computer animation, graphic images sounds and videos for different multimedia projects, games, CD-ROMS or even motion pictures. This further helps them maintain the web application and websites using scripting, programming, content management and file transfer software.

Tasks

• Developing media projects such as imaging, data management, games, video, and audio clips. Using Multimedia software, interactive graphics, and programming languages to produce internet application.
• Helping in developing and analyzing internet strategies for web development plans and methodologies.
• Creating a mix of creativity and artistry to develop internet websites and design them using software programs and scripting language in an operating environment.
• Maintaining the communication with network specialists to regard the web-related flaws, security and hosting and finding out solutions to solve these internet and security flaws. Ensuring disaster recovery and website backup plan.
• Designing and developing computer codes with specialized inputs regarding audio and image files such as scripting to ensure proper support to the website.

Skill level

The candidates are required to have the following skill list to apply this occupation

Bachelor degree or higher qualification

Five years of experience in the relevant field or relevant vendor certification program

Relevant job training or experience.

Occupation in this group

The candidates can apply for the following occupations

• 261211 Multimedia Specialist
• 261212 Web Developer

English Requirement

• IELTS Minimum Score: 7 (overall), 7 (speaking), 6 (L, R, W)
• OET Minimum Grade: B (all sections)
• PTE Academic Minimum Score: 65 (overall), 65 (speaking), 50 (L, R, W)
• TOEFL iBT Minimum Score: L:12, R:13, W:21, S:23, L93

Exceptions

• Australian Graduates are an exception in a few states and territories
• Candidates from countries such as UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, and Ireland do not need to produce their IELTS or OET score. /li>
• Priority Skilled List may be an effective requirement in some states or territories

Closely Related Core ICT Units

• Computer Graphics and Animation (3D and 2D Computer Graphics, 2D and 3D Animation)
• www and the Internet (Web Engineering, Web Technologies, XML and Web Services, Web Applications Development and Web Authoring, Multimedia and the Internet)
• Operating Systems (iOS, Linux, Android, and Unix)
• Human-Computer Interaction (Interface Design)
• Programming (e.g., Internet Programming, Java, C++, Objective C, Games Programming, AS3)

Additional Closely Related ICT Units

• Algorithm design and development
• Mobile Devices
• Object-Oriented System Design
• Object-Oriented System Analysis
• System Analysis
• Systems Design
• Requirements Gathering