Resource Management Support Clerk

Resource Management Support Clerks (RMS Clk) provide administrative financial support to all military activities. This career field is one of the largest in the military. Consequently, it offers a wide scope of employment opportunities in a variety of environments.

Human resource administration and services

Financial management support services

Personnel support services

Corporate and general purpose administration

Requirements
Applicants must possess a high school or college diploma. RMS Clks must be responsible, tactful, discreet, mentally alert, and possess a good memory. They must be capable of accurately performing repetitive clerical and financial tasks and, in the early stages of their career, be willing to work long hours to meet deadlines. RMS CLKs should be interested in dealing with the public; therefore, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required. This occupation also involves working with numbers, drafting correspondence, and operating computers and other office equipment. Resource Management Support clerks must be attentive to detail and work in an organized manner. Reliability, honesty, and an ability to adapt to a variety of locations, conditions and management systems are also necessary attributes. Critical thinking skills are particularly important in the higher rank levels where RMS Clks perform management functions and are often responsible for supervising and managing large groups of people.

Training
On completion of BMQ and Soldier Qualification, Resource Management Support Clerks attend Basic Military Occupational (MOC) Training at the Canadian Forces School of Administration and Logistics (CFSAL) in Borden, Ont. Training takes approximately 11 weeks and includes:

• Fundamentals of a central registry
• Fundamentals of military writing
• Familiarization with military publications
• Administration in support of operations
• Fundamentals of Financial Management Accounting Systems (FMAS)
• Fundamentals of a pay system and basic accounting
• Fundamentals of personnel records
• Fundamentals of claims processing
• Fundamentals of personnel management
• Fundamentals of release processing
• Operation of automated personnel and financial systems (pay and cashier)
• Keyboarding skills (30 words per minute, less than 2% error rate)
• Computer fundamentals