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Operational Administrator

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The Role

Operational Administrators are part of the Logistics and Support Branch of the Navy. As an Operational Administrator, you are responsible for providing high quality payroll and administration support to serving personnel, using the Defence Force's Human Resource Information System.

You will also provide support in office administration functions such as managing correspondence, word processing, and filing. This role is undertaken at sea onboard ships, as part of a deployed force overseas or in Naval establishments in New Zealand.

Career Progression

Your hard work, experience, and training accomplishments as an Operational Administrator are rewarded by promotions in rank and salary. Following your initial training and consolidation, you can reasonably be expected to have attained a basic level of competence within 18 months of joining. This will be supplemented by a sea posting and then further training to prepare you for promotion to a supervisory role.

Advanced training will involve both generic leadership skills and operational administrator skills. Successful completion of these will qualify you for a promotion to Leading Hand whereby you will be responsible for supervising a team of Operational Administrators, either at sea or ashore.

Employment opportunities for Operational Administrators within the Navy and the Defence Force are particularly varied. There are opportunities for Operational Administrators at sea, in Devonport, Wellington at Defence House and Joint Force Headquarters, and even further afield with deployed forces around the world.

Pay & Benefit Details

The minimum remuneration you will be paid from day one is $33,256. Your remuneration will increase upon graduation of your officer course to $40,500+ and will continue to increase on promotion and seniority.

General Requirements

  • Be a minimum of 17 years of age.

  • Be a NZ citizen or have permanent residency and have lived in NZ for five years.

  • Be of good character – assessed by study of testimonials and a police record check.

  • Be free of any criminal convictions for the previous two years.

Educational Requirements

  • Completed three years of secondary school.

  • Have a minimum of 12 NCEA level 1 credits in English and Maths.

Fitness Requirements

  • You must be medically fit for service.

Training

Basic Training

Upon successful enlistment into the Navy you’ll be posted to Devonport Navy base in Auckland. Here you will do 13 weeks of basic military training to find out if you’ve got what it takes to be in the Navy, and learn various subjects including:

  • Teamwork/team support

  • Naval discipline and regulations

  • Physical fitness

  • Parade training.

Job Training

You will start your Naval Training at the Devonport Naval Base with basic and specialist training. Your specialist training will includes areas such as NZDF payroll, Human Resource information system training, administration and office procedures, receipt and dispatch of correspondence, management and administration of personnel records and processes, and word processing.

Following this initial training phase, you will consolidate your training ashore in the Navy’s Pay and Administrative Centre in Devonport Naval Base. As you gain more experience, you will post to sea for up to 18 months to become part of a small team onboard a ship that providing administrative and payroll services to the Ship’s Company.

As your career progresses, you will undertake further training to develop your generic leadership skills and specialist skills. The ability to manage people effectively and efficient is a key part of your development. This training will provide you with additional skills and expertise to assist with your career progression.

Ongoing Training

Operational Administrators receive comprehensive Navy training throughout their careers at a basic, supervisory and managerial level and receive qualifications in the following areas:

  • Navy Pay and Personal Administration entitlements

  • Use of the New Zealand Defence Force Human Resource Information systems

  • Customer Service skills

  • Administration and office procedures

  • Receipt and dispatch of correspondence

  • Management and administration of personnel records and processes

  • Pay accounting

  • Word-processing.

Operational Administrators also receive additional leadership training to assist with their career progression in both a specialist and general role.

Location Details

After your initial training in Devonport, you will most likely to be posted to Wellington.

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