ADM 210 · Administration and Staff Services · Level 200 (Phase Two)
A Royal Army College course in the administration of people: who is in the force, and that they get what they are due.
Course length: approximately 10 hours of online self-study, studied asynchronously at the student's own pace, together with any in-person practical instruction and assessment the course requires.
Foreword
Records keep the truth of a force; personnel administration keeps the truth of its people. It is the work of knowing exactly who is on strength, bringing them in and seeing them out cleanly, actioning the promotions, appointments, and postings that shape a career, and making sure that every member is paid right, granted the leave they are owed, and looked after when life is hard. It is administration with a human face, because behind every entry is a person whose money, time, and welfare depend on a clerk getting it right.
This course teaches that work. It covers the personnel picture, establishment and strength, the nominal roll and the strength return; joining and leaving, with the clean in and out processing that opens and closes a member's service and, crucially, revokes access when they go; the events of a career and how they are actioned and recorded by proper authority; pay, leave, and entitlements, where accuracy is somebody's livelihood; the returns and reports that keep command informed; conduct and discipline administration, recorded fairly and held in confidence; the appraisal cycle a career is selected on; medical categories and employability, carrying who is fit for what into planning; availability, liability, and the call-out that lets a dispersed force assemble in a crisis; and the human heart of it all, administration in support of people, including the sensitivity owed to welfare and next-of-kin matters. It is grounded in recognised personnel administration and works with ADM 201, PME 210, and the access discipline of CIS 220.
A force is its people, and personnel administration is how a force keeps faith with them. Done well, it is invisible and everyone is looked after; done badly, it is a soldier unpaid, a leave wrongly refused, an access never revoked. This course builds the member who keeps that faith.
Who this course is for
This course is for members of the Administration and Staff Services speciality and anyone who administers people on the Army's behalf. It assumes ADM 201 · Service Records and Registry.
What this course covers
| Lesson | Title |
|---|---|
| 01 | The Personnel Picture: Establishment and Strength |
| 02 | Joining and Leaving: In and Out Processing |
| 03 | Promotions, Appointments, and Postings |
| 04 | Pay, Leave, and Entitlements |
| 05 | Returns, Reports, and the Strength Account |
| 06 | Conduct and Discipline Administration |
| 07 | Appraisals and the Reporting Cycle |
| 08 | Medical Categories and Employability |
| 09 | Availability, Liability, and Mobilisation |
| 10 | Personnel Administration in Support of People |
How this course fits the catalogue
ADM 210 builds on ADM 201 · Service Records and Registry and connects to CIS 220 · Identity, Access, and Records Security (provisioning and the prompt revocation of access when a person leaves), LOG 201 · Stores, Equipment, and Accountability (clearing kit on departure), PME 210 · Basic Staff Duties and Written Orders (returns and reports), and ADM 220 · Course Records and Qualification Tracking (eligibility for promotion and appointment). It draws on the MED stream (medical categories and fitness), and connects to HCR 201 · Dignity and Care (welfare and casualty work) and HCR 220 · Emergency Preparedness (the call-out that mobilises a dispersed force). It leads on to ADM 310 (Orderly Room and Headquarters Administration). Pay and entitlements are in US dollars.
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