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As a member of the Personnel (Support) trade, you will be part of a team which plays a vital role in ensuring that the RAF runs smoothly and efficiently. You will receive excellent training to ensure the provision of administrative and personnel support to RAF personnel, wherever the location.

You will be provided with organisational skills utilising electronic media and be trained on an ORACLE-based Human Resource Management System. Initially, you will be responsible for the effective maintenance of movements and records, preparing RAF personnel for operational deployments, and ensuring that individuals receive their correct entitlement to pay, allowances and expenses. As your career develops and promotion ensues, a much wider sphere of posts will be available. The trade ensures diverse employment such as on operational flying squadrons, as a career manager, as a personal assistant, on VIP duties, instructing new students or management and leadership training or within RAF recruiting. Further areas include the administration of Service discipline, accounting, force development, welfare, infrastructure and headquarters policy staff.

The trade affords you fantastic opportunities for personal development throughout your career, to serve in a variety of areas of the trade within the United Kingdom, overseas, on operations, within a British Embassy or with NATO. Our strength is our diversity; wherever our people and aircraft go, we go.

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