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For
all officers of all services, up to the rank or equivalent
rank of lieutenant-colonel, the PAR has taken over from
the EDRO to keep abreast of officer’s performance.
Photo illustration by Cpl Belinda Mepham, Army newspaper
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Appraising
your performance
THE
new ADF Performance Appraisal Report (PAR) for officers up to the
rank of O-5 (Lt-Col) was introduced effective January 1, 2002, and
replaced the Evaluation and Development Report – Officers (EDRO).
The purpose of the PAR is to provide a tri-service appraisal system
for full and part-time, permanent/regular and active reserve officers.
The PAR (Form AC833-12) covers similar reporting dimensions as the
EDRO, but no longer has the overall recommendation nor allows for
justifications against extreme ratings on each performance dimension.
The formal appraisal of officers seeks to provide feedback, identify
strengths and weaknesses and record performance.
It also seeks to identify an individual’s suitability for promotion
and courses and to aid career management.
Preliminary review
The PAR is supported by the use of the Preliminary Review of Performance
(PRP), Form AC833-14.
The purpose of the PRP is to discuss and record goals for the member
to achieve throughout the reporting period as well as support mid-term
counselling against these agreed goals and the PAR performance dimensions.
Supplementary reports
Form AC833-30 is the ADF Performance Appraisal Supplementary Report.
It is used where the member has undertaken a detachment or substantial
secondary duties.
This report is forwarded to the main assessor for consideration
in drafting the PAR.
Where the period of detachment is less than six weeks it may be
done on either the supplementary report or a PRP.
Where the detachment is between six weeks and four months a PRP
is recommended and over four months a separate PAR should be raised.
All the above forms are available in Web Forms system on the Defence
Intranet.
The performance appraisal cycle begins when an officer is first
posted to a unit or at the start of a new reporting period.
The assessor and senior assessor are designated at this time.
At the start of the reporting period, or within 30 days of the effective
date of the posting, the assessor is to meet with the member to
discuss and record the goals for the member to achieve throughout
the reporting period.
This is recorded on the PRP.
Midway through the reporting period, or after a minimum of six weeks
observation the assessor and member get back together to review
progress.
The assessor also provides feedback on the member’s performance
by rating the member’s performance against the individual performance
dimensions.
Again this is recorded on the PRP.
At the end of the reporting period the PAR is compiled.
In order to complete this report the minimum period of observation
is four months for full-time and 14 days for part-time members.
The report is raised by the assessor, who then counsels the member.
The member must sign the report, which then goes to the senior assessor
and then back to the member for a second signature.
The member may initiate a representation if the they feel that the
report is unjustified.
An electronic and hardcopy of the PAR is then be despatched to DOCM-A
by the dates shown below.
The electronic reports, sent by e-mail to docmpar@defence.gov.au,
are uploaded into PMKeyS.
Signed hard copies are forwarded concurrently to ensure verification
of each report.
Dates due at DOCM:
Lieutenant – September 1,
Captain – September 15
Major – October 1
Lieutenant-Colonel – November 1
Further information on PAR is available in DI (G) Pers 10-5, Officer
Performance Appraisal Reporting in the ADF, DI (A) PERS 116-16,
Performance Appraisal Reporting and at the DOCM-A website.
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