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There are many excellent career options in the ADF that generally don&rsquo;t require experience or qualifications. You&rsquo;ll receive all the training you need and be paid while you train.
Who it&rsquo;s for:&nbsp;Those seeking general roles and career opportunities.

You'll be paid while you train, and on completion of your Initial Military Training and Employment Training, you’ll earn at least:

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In the Air Force you'll be paid a good salary from day one regardless of your age, experience or qualifications.

General Entry: Non-technical

After your IET and consolidation, you&rsquo;ll be employed as an all-source intelligence analyst. Opportunities exist for qualified members in this role to undertake training in languages. If you&rsquo;re required to undertake language training to meet Air Force intelligence capability requirements, it will take place at the Defence Force School of Languages at RAAF Williams, Vic.&nbsp;
You&rsquo;ll also be afforded the opportunity to take a wide variety of specialist courses. Some courses may be provided through other Defence intelligence training institutions as well as international Defence Forces.
Some additional courses may include:
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 <li>Intermediate Operational Intelligence (OPINT) Course</li>
 <li>Advanced language or additional language courses</li>
 <li>Instructor Assessor Courses</li>
 <li>Ground Intelligence Course</li>
 <li>Training development</li>
 <li>Counterintelligence</li>
 <li>Cyber or Space Intelligence training</li>
 <li>Many other system, space, sensor and intelligence related courses.</li>
</ul>

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As an Intelligence Analyst (Operations), you’ll be employed in the sensitive and highly challenging fields of operational and signals intelligence. You’ll contribute directly to the success of Air Force missions in a wide range of Information Warfare related roles. 

You'll work across a wide range of Air Force and ADF environments, from fast-paced, tactical roles where you’ll provide war-fighting units with critical intelligence, to office-based, strategic intelligence roles where you'll protect Australia and its national interests. In a world that increasingly relies on intelligence to counter threats from both beyond and within our shores, this role is critical and offers a rewarding, diverse and worthwhile career to ambitious young people.

Drawing on your specialised skills and highly classified material, you’ll use advanced software to analyse, correlate and fuse multiple intelligence sources for the ADF and our allies. This role requires absolute discretion, flexibility, objectivity, problem-solving skills, a cool head and good attention to detail. 

While most of your work will be conducted in modern offices, you may be required to deploy to remote locations in Australia and overseas in support of ADF and allied exercises and operations, where you’ll work in security-accredited cabins or tents.

Put your analytical and language skills to work in a highly classified role where you’ll collect, disseminate and exploit intelligence in support of Air Force and ADF operations.

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Intelligence Analyst (Operations)

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Benefits you won't see anywhere else

You’ll enjoy the following:

Great salary from day one, which increases with experience

Generous superannuation of 16.4% – a huge 4.9% over the Australian standard

Help to buy a home, a subsidised home loan or rent allowance

Free medical and dental for you, and subsidised healthcare for you and your family

Fully paid training

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