WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio —
The Air Power Materiel Command is revitalizing its expanded command sponsorship program to higher help the transition of each uniformed and civilian Airmen into organizational items.
Sponsorship performs a key function in newcomer acculturation and has optimistic impacts on mission.
“Successfully onboarding new staff members is a precedence in Air Power Materiel Command. Sponsorship serves as a significant commander’s program by making a hyperlink between private/household resilience and the group,” mentioned Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, AFMC Commander, in a latest memo to the staff.
All uniformed servicemembers are supplied a unit sponsor throughout a everlasting change of obligation station. AFMC’s sponsorship coverage additionally contains all civilian new staff to the group, whether or not they’re accepting their first civil service task or are transitioning from one other unit.
“This strategy ensures every civilian going by means of a job transition will obtain help. Whether or not they’re model new to the Air Power or transferring down the corridor, every civilian may have a pleasant face to assist them settle of their new place and the group as they get began,” mentioned Lindsay McNeely, AFMC Human Sources Specialist. “AFMC has the most important civilian workforce within the Division of the Air Power. It’s vital we take the time to assist them transition easily to allow them to successfully execute our missions.”
The function of a civilian unit sponsor will likely be assigned on a volunteer foundation, and if there aren’t any volunteers out there, the sponsorship function will default to the civilian’s supervisor. Sponsors will likely be supplied with an AFMC Sponsorship Guidelines, which identifies areas of help {that a} sponsor is likely to be requested to offer comparable to figuring out native and group sources; aiding with instructions and different info previous to the newcomer’s first day of labor; assembly the brand new worker on their first obligation day; and different objects as wanted. The precise help civilian sponsors will present relies on the wants of the brand new worker.
Uniformed servicemember sponsorship will proceed to comply with Air Power steering, with sponsor assignments remaining the duty of the unit commander. For servicemembers, sponsorship help extends to their licensed dependents and past the office, guaranteeing army members and their households are settled within the new space following a change of obligation station.
AFMC human sources groups will monitor the success of the civilian sponsorship program by means of an evaluation supplied to all command newcomers 30-days after obligation begins. Based mostly on the responses, processes and checklists could also be refined to enhance this system and sources.
The uniformed member sponsorship program is monitored by the DAF Sponsorship Survey supplied to all army members throughout Newcomer Orientation.
“Line of Effort #2 within the AFMC Strategic Plan is ‘Strengthen Our Crew.’ The revitalization of our sponsorship program instantly ties into this LOE. This course of helps our new staff by means of job transition, helps construct unit resilience, and allows them to be efficient sooner of their new positions,” mentioned Jeffrey Nelson, AFMC Navy and Household Readiness Chief.
For extra info on sponsorship, see DAFI-36-3009. Further sources can be found at Navy OneSource.
The AFMC Civilian Sponsorship Guidelines is on the market at Sponsorship Guidelines. Inner AFMC audiences can view the coverage memo at AFMC Sponsorship Coverage Memorandum_CC Signed.pdf.
