OFFICERS
are reminded that their Performance Appraisal Reports (PARs)
for the 2003 reporting period should have been raised on September
1 and must be submitted to DPO-AF by November 1.
As part of the reporting process, officers are encouraged to
submit an Employment Preferences and Restrictions form (EPAR)
with the PAR. EPARs can also be submitted whenever there is
a significant change of circumstances that might affect an officer’s
employment preferences and/or restrictions.
The completed and signed PARs and EPARs are to be mailed to
DPO-AF Promotions Section and, additionally, copies should be
emailed (which is preferable to sending floppy discs) –
to the following addresses:
PARs: POPROM.PARupload@defence.gov.au
EPARs: POPROM.EPARupload@defence.gov.au
The “What’s new” section on the DPO-AF website
(http://intranet.defence.gov.au/raafweb/Sites/DPO/)
also contains detailed instructions on how to complete these
forms. Both forms are on the Defence Publishing Service Web
Forms System at http://pubsdb.cbr-dps.defence.gov.au/wfs/
and are titled:
Promotion
boards
THE next Airmen promotion boards will be held at RAAF Base Amberley
from January 27-March 5, 2004.
Board members will be required to be available for one week
over the period of the promotion boards. SNCOs and officers
interested in participating in the promotion boards as a board
member should contact Corporal Nicole Hanison of the Airmen
Performance Appraisal Cell at DPA on (02) 6265 2305. Board members
must be at least a sergeant, with participants up to squadron
leader rank required.
Personnel interested in nominating for this task should include
all Service details and the week (week 1 to week 5) they would
prefer to be in Amberley. Owing to the structure of the promotion
boards, warrant officer and squadron leader board members will
be required for the first week.
Interested personnel are strongly encouraged to nominate as
this is a chance to be involved in an interesting aspect of
personnel management.
Don’t abuse PMKeyS
MANY Air Force personnel have access to PMKeyS and the very
nature of the system permits users to view and possibly update
data that is outside their area of responsibility.
Users are reminded that access to a particular panel within
PMKeyS does not necessarily imply the authority to use or view
that panel.
Supervisors should ensure that staff clearly understand whether
access to a particular component or panel in PMKeyS is appropriate.
This is particularly important from a privacy perspective as
well as being a data integrity and fraud control issue.
Additionally, personnel are not authorised to update their own
data in PMKeyS and such action will, as a minimum, result in
cancellation of access privileges. However, members will be
able to update certain elements of their personal profile once
People Central, a web-based portal, is up and running next year.
