Ongoing Development
As your career progresses, we’ ll continue to train you in new skills. As well as management and leadership training, there are opportunities to learn additional languages or to reach a higher level of proficiency in your core foreign language
Your Future Career Prospects and Progression
After completing one year’ s total service, you will be eligible for promotion to Air Specialist( Class 1)( AS1), providing you pass a Professional Workplace Assessment. Most of an Int An( L)’ s employment is likely to be spent within the Joint Services environment working with similarly trained Royal Navy and Army specialists in both the static and mobile roles. You should also expect to be deployed on an operational tour of up to six months at various stages in your career, which could be onboard Royal Navy vessels as well as with a deployed Army unit working under field conditions. In preparation for these duties, personnel will be required to carry out the appropriate military training. Further promotion to the rank of Corporal and beyond is on merit by competitive selection and based upon your performance as reflected by your annual report. For junior specialists, some duties will entail shift working. However, as personnel progress through JNCO and SNCO ranks, there will be an increasing number of opportunities to fill day working posts.
Int An( L) will be employed in Language roles as a through career priority. There may be opportunities for employment in Int An Operational Intelligence roles, though these will be on a Service Need basis and are likely to be limited. Operational Intelligence roles include working at an Intelligence Cell( Int Cell) at an RAF Station or operational Squadron working in direct support to platforms such as F-35, RIVET JOINT or Remotely Piloted Air Systems( RPAS). Personnel may also be deployed to overseas locations to carry out similar roles for a period of up to 6-months. More strategic OPINT roles are based at RAF Wyton, within the Air & Space Intelligence Centre( ASIC).
Commanders cannot make decisions without reliable intelligence, and as an Intelligence Professional in the RAF you will play a key role this process.
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