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Central Staffs
The Central Staffs Branch supports COMARRC and the Command Group providing
specialist staff advice, and controls and oversees the central coordination of
the HQ both in and out of barracks. The Division is split into four elements;
HQ Co-ordination Branch, G8
Branch, Public Information and Framework Nation Support.
Headquarters Co-ordination Branch (HQ COORD).
HQ COORD’s main function is to provide the
Headquarter’s secretariat and to facilitate staff situation
awareness and understanding. The Branch is split into
three sections; Information Management, Joint Visits
Bureau and Staff Support.
Information Management (IM). The strategic
information goal for HQ ARRC, as part of the wider
NATO and UK Defence community, is to exploit the information environment to gain maximum
advantage in order to deliver rapid, controlled and precise military effects. The IM Section
sets and implements the ARRC’s information policy on how information must be acquired,
managed, shared, exploited and communicated quickly and effectively in order to inform
and develop the core Plan-Refine-Execute process.
Joint Visits Bureau (JVB). JVB provides coordination
of all visits and protocol matters affecting ARRC. It
manages all incoming visitors to the Command Group,
providing staff clearance for other visitors and monitors
outgoing visitors. JVB is also responsible for organising
all major conferences and events held by HQ ARRC.
It is also the principal point of contact for SHAPE and
NATO HQs, UK MOD, HQ LAND and HQ UKSC(G)
O&D Branches.
Staff Support.The Staff Support Section is responsible for the
delivery of administrative support
to the Headquarters. Its key tasks
include the provision of a Receipt
and Dispatch Centre (RDC) that
tracks the through life usage
of paper and electronic information; the NATO SECRET Registry (NSR) which has
the responsibility for accounting for all classified NATO documents; and the
provision of clerical support throughout the Headquarters.
G8 Branch deals primarily with multinational & NATO funding and is the focus within HQ
ARRC for the following activities: financial planning, budgeting, accounting, management of
NATO funds, corporate governance and procurement & contracting (P&C) support
to the HQ ARRC Group. The Branch is divided into two main areas:
Budget and Finance includes the budgets, fiscal
and disbursing functions. In particular, the Budgets
Officer is responsible for planning and managing
the Shared Funded Budget in peace, and for the
Operational Budget on operations. The Fiscal
section commits Shared Funds (in barracks and
on exercise) and NATO Common Funds (on
operations), accounts. Disbursing is responsible for
making payments and the upkeep of cashbooks.
Purchasing and Contracting (P&C). The P&C section provides the contracting support to
ARRC Group in barracks, on exercise and on operations.
Public Affairs Branch (PA) responsible for advising the Commander
and staff on all media– related issues and the
planning and conduct of COMARRC’s Public Affairs campaign.
This includes media monitoring and analysis, maintenance of working
relationships with the media, organisation of media events, the
preparation of internal and external media
products, the maintenance of the ARRC website, community relations
and internal (or Command) information. The branch has the ability
to deploy a NATO Media
Information Centre equipped with direct audio feed for the media
and a translation
capability. This is supported by a production team capable of generating
high quality,
audio, video and photographic products for distribution in support
of press releases
or web-based articles.
Framework Nation Support (FNS) provides the HQ ARRC focus for the local peacetime
infrastructure support that is provided by HQ UKSC (G) and Rhine Garrison. This support
includes building management and the coordination of works services, focal point for civil
labour, health & safety and fire prevention.
FNS is also responsible for the coordination, provision and control of equipments issued
to the Headquarters as well as personal equipment issued to all multinational personnel.
During deployments FNS is responsible to COSARRC for all aspects of the Rear Detachment based in JHQ.
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