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<p>You may be posted to any Air Force Base within Australia or possibly overseas, although overseas posting are limited. </p>

You will be paid while you study. On completion of your degree, Initial Military Training and Initial Employment Training, you'll earn at least:

Training

Your salary while completing your studies

Trained

Your salary once trained

In the Air Force you'll get paid a good salary from day one regardless of your age, experience or qualifications; and your pay increases as you progress through training.<br><br>In addition to your salary you'll receive a variety of allowances, extra pay for relevant qualifications – plus 16.4% superannuation, a far higher rate than you're likely to find in the civilian world.

Officer Entry: Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA)

Officer Entry: ADFA

<p>All Personnel Officers will complete further job specific and career development training throughout their career.</p>
<p>Courses may include personnel IT systems, accounting, procurement certification, communication skills, staff skills, Ministerial writing, promotion prerequisite courses, media awareness, joint warfare, occupational health and safety, conciliation and mediation skills, investigation skills, financial accounting and management and other relevant job specific courses that will enhance your abilities to do your job more effectively.</p>
<div class="p"><strong>Masters of Business UNSW@ADFA</strong></div>
<p>At the senior Flight Lieutenant/junior Squadron Leader level, there are currently limited opportunities to apply to study, full-time, a Masters of Business at UNSW@ADFA in Canberra. Your post-graduate qualifications would be specifically tailored to prepare you for one of a number of specialised workforce roles.</p>
<p>Aside from any training directly related to your employment, you will also be required to undertake regular training to keep up your general military skills. This will include annual weapons handling training and qualifications and ground combat courses. Other training may include Unit Security Officer course, Unit Information System Officer course or some of the more advanced joint operations and campaign planning courses.</p>

You will be paid while you train, and on completion of your Initial Military Training and Employment Training, you’ll earn at least:

Your starting salary

Officer Entry: Officer

Officer Entry: Undergraduate

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<p>As a Personnel Officer, you could be employed in a range of roles within the Air Force and the wider Australian Defence Force (ADF). Personnel Officers support their Commanders through delivering: workforce management expertise, timely and necessary information to support decision making and assistance through day to day function support. A few of the roles a Personnel Officer can enjoy throughout their career are outlined below.</p>
<div class="p"><strong>Staff Officer Personnel (SOPERS)</strong></div>
<p>As a Unit SOPERS, you are one of the Unit executives with a wide variety of responsibilities including human resource and complex case management, information and knowledge management, internal and external corporate communication, financial budgeting, reporting and governance tasks. In operational units, you are not only responsible for ensuring Unit personnel are trained and ready for operational deployment but their welfare (as well as their families) is well looked after. You will work closely with support specialists, such as Service chaplains, doctors, psychologists and social workers while providing support to Unit members. You will often work directly to the Unit's Commanding Officer (CO) providing not only specialist advice but you and your staff will have key roles in maintaining the Unit's information and financial accountability.</p>
<div class="p"><strong>Personnel Operations</strong></div>
<p>Personnel Officers have a number of opportunities to be posted to roles that directly support operations. Personnel Operations roles are those jobs primarily concerned with identifying, preparing and supporting personnel from across the Air Force or the wider ADF to deploy on operations. You will ensure the right people are deployed at the right time. There are opportunities to work in the Personnel Operations domain across a number of levels of command and within a tri-service environment. You may also be involved in both long-term and short-notice planning for large-scale military operations or humanitarian crisis situations.</p>
<div class="p"><strong>Communication Effects</strong></div>
<p>Personnel Officers are commonly involved in planning and executing internal and external communication strategies during their posting to an SOPERS position. However, there are a number of jobs which specialise in communication.</p>
<p>You may work in public relations and manage a number of high-level events and community engagement activities not just for your unit or base but also on the national stage. There are growing opportunities in media liaison and public affairs as well as social media and website content management.</p>
<div class="p"><strong>Workforce Development and Review</strong></div>
<p>There are some opportunities for Personnel Officers to undertake workforce development, design and implementation across all levels of command. These roles involve being responsible for workforce planning, effecting organisational change and assisting commanders and their personnel to adapt to change.</p>
<p>You can be involved in the development and delivery of Air Force's current and future workforce, including training roles. You may also be involved in designing and implementing people initiatives' aimed at generating workforce savings to fund future capabilities.</p>
<p>You may like to work with Air Force's workforce structure'. In such roles you would be responsible for balancing workforce capability requirements within resource constraints and plan the future shape of the workforce for emerging capabilities.</p>
<div class="p"><strong>Personnel Management</strong></div>
<p>Personnel Officers are responsible for the raise, train and sustain efforts required to achieve workforce numbers and preparedness levels. A significant role of personnel management is to provide direct support to a commander for the day to day management of their personnel. </p>
<p>You will have the opportunity to be employed in roles at every stage of an individual's career within Defence as well as providing support to all working groups. Personnel Officers can undertake roles in recruiting, behaviour management, policy development, welfare, administrative investigations and transitions. </p>
<div class="p"><strong>Resource and Knowledge Management</strong> </div>
<p>The aim of resource management is to optimise the use of available resources to generate and sustain Air Force capability while demonstrating economy, efficiency and sound decision making within associated governance frameworks. </p>
<p>Knowledge Management and Information Management focuses on managing Air Force's information resources, with an emphasis on collection, organising and relaying information to the workforce. The Knowledge Management element involves supporting an organisation that knows how to convert information into knowledge to generate experience, skill, intellect and intuition. </p>
<p>Personnel Officers can be expected to manage resources in the following forms: </p>
<p>Physical resources - financial management, human resource management</p>
<p>Intellectual resources - intelligence, information and knowledge </p>
<p>Welfare resources - to create an environment supporting morale, cultural competence and engender purpose for Air Force members. </p>
<div class="p"><strong>Deployments</strong></div>
<p>Whenever Air Force personnel deploy on operations, a Personnel Officer is usually one of the first on the ground.</p>
<p>Personnel Officers maintain Air Force's most valued assets, its people, not just from a capability perspective but from a welfare perspective as well.</p>
<p>Personnel Officers can also deploy as a Staff Officer to commanders and provide specialist advice as well as undertake a number of unique roles to the deployed environment, including Planning, Host Nation liaison, Key Leader Engagement, Humanitarian Assistance and Public Information activities.</p>
<p>Entry as an Air Force Personnel Officer is available through the Australian Defence Force Academy, or as a Direct Entry Officer (including Reserve Officer) or commissioned from within the Air Force.</p>

Step up to a senior human resources role that helps keep the Air Force operating at peak capability, through workforce planning, personnel management and training.

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Personnel Officer

Benefits you won't see anywhere else

You’ll enjoy the following:

Great salary from day one, which increases with experience

Generous superannuation of 16.4% – a huge 4.9% over the Australian standard

Help to buy a home, a subsidised home loan or rent allowance

Free medical and dental for you, and subsidised healthcare for you and your family

Fully paid training

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