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Personnel Administrator

Posted By: RAF - Manchester
Address:
- 29-31 Petersfield House
- Peter Street
- Manchester
- M2 5QJ
Contact: 0161 832 5822
Date Posted: 5th Jan 2009
Salary: Excellent
Location: Other
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Views Since Posting: 65
Full Description:

Provide a wide range of professional administration – which is essential to delivering operational effectiveness.

Your Work

Overview
Administration is key to the overall efficiency and morale of the RAF. Wherever the RAF is operational, there will be a team of administrators looking after the needs of Service personnel.
Like most people in the RAF, you’ll probably move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. Your tours could include working in the fields of:

• Human resources administration

• Infrastructure and estate management

• Community support

• Financial management

• General support administration

• Recruitment

• Training support, and

• Service discipline

Most of your tours will be on RAF bases in the UK, but there are also opportunities to work abroad; these can range from short detachments to three-year postings. Within your first few years, you’ll probably be detached overseas to carry out your role in a tented accommodation or office environment in support of the RAF’s expeditionary role.

Your first tour

For your first tour, you will probably be posted to an operational flying unit in the UK. You could operate as part of a squadron or work within Station Headquarters providing Human Resource support.

Your training

Recruit training
Your career will start with nine weeks of recruit training at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire. The course is designed to help you adjust to a military environment. As well as fitness and military training, you’ll also learn about the RAF lifestyle.

Specialist training
The next step is a specialist training course at the RAF Secretarial Training School at Southwick Park in Hampshire, which lasts four months. You’ll learn how administration works within the RAF and on completion of the course you will be awarded an NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration. You’ll also have completed a number of modules towards the Apprenticeship in Business Administration. At the end of the course, you’ll get your first assignment.

Ongoing development
During your first tour you will have the opportunity to complete any further modules you require to earn the Apprenticeship. As your career progresses, there will be opportunities to undertake further specialist training as well as management and leadership training, much of which will lead to some form of accreditation with external professional institutes.

Your future

Prospects
You will initially join the RAF for a period of nine years. After a year, you’ll be eligible for promotion to Senior Aircraftman/woman if you pass a trade ability test. Further promotion to the rank of Corporal and beyond is by competitive selection.
Transferable skills
The qualifications and skills you can gain are as valuable in the civilian world as they are in the RAF – which means that whenever you decide to leave the RAF, you’ll be well placed to find a job in administration or a related field.

Entry qualifications

Age limits
16–29

Academic qualifications
GCSE/SCEs at Grade G/6 in English language and maths.

Nationality
You must have been a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland since birth.

Residency
Whether or not you were born in the United Kingdom, you should normally have resided there for the three years immediately preceding your application.

Equal opportunities
The RAF values every individual’s unique contribution, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or social background.

RAF careers could be based anywhere in the UK, please ensure you are fully aware before applying - are you up for the Challenge?