J-1 Personnel Management

Mission and Tasks of J-1/GS

J-1 Mission

To manage the ARM personnel in peace and war time, to perform analysis and implement the legislatives and regulations, to conduct selection and instruction of the personnel during the service, to take care of the morale and the state of the ARM personnel.

J-1 Tasks

J-1 is an organizational unit of the General Staff which implements the Personnel management in the ARM and performs the following tasks:

It plans, runs and implements the system of selection, promotion and instructing of the personnel.
Professionally manages officers, NCOs, professional soldiers and civilians in the ARM.
Plans and implements the programs for professional development, military schooling, military education in the country and abroad.
Analyzes and posts personnel according to the priorities for filling of the units and their readiness.
It develops and implements programs in the field of social security.
It performs valuation and analysis of the morale and the state of the personnel and takes actions for the improvement of the same through adequate measures and procedures.
It develops and implements programs in the field of cultural and recreational activities.
It plans and performs the archival work in the General Staff of the ARM, and for that purpose it receives, records and distributes the entirely arrived post – acts at the GS of the ARM.
It has a close cooperation with all G-organizations for more efficient performance of the duties which are closely related to G-1.
In fulfilling its functions it entirely follows the Defense Act, Act for military service in the ARM, Industrial. Relations Act, Law on Pension and Disability Insurance, as well as other laws and bylaws which regulate the defense of the RM.

Chief of J-1/GS

Colonel Tome Jovevski

Colonel Tome Jovevski was born on September 16, 1975 in Kriva Palanka. He finished primary and secondary school in Skopje. He continued his education at the “General Mihailo Apostolski” Military Academy in Skopje in 1995 and graduated in 1999 as a second lieutenant of Infantry.

He began his military career as a Security Platoon Commander in the “Goce Delchev” barracks in Skopje. Duties that he performed during his career so far are: Commander of a Cadet Platoon; Reception, Control, Delivery Officer, at the same time Deputy Commander of the Warehouse for Materiel, Spare Parts and Power Supplies; Chief of S-1 Section in a Battalion; Chief of Battalion and Planning and Operations Officer; Personnel Officer in a Brigade; Chief of Personnel Section in the Logistics Support Brigade; Commander of the Supply and Transportation Center; Staff Planning and Analysis Officer in J-1/GS; Chief of the Professional Development, Planning and Analysis Department in J-1/GS.

He enhanced his military education at the Military Academy “Georgi Rakovski” in Sofia, where he completed the Command and Staff School.

He has finished several courses in the field of personnel management in the country and the United States, as well as courses in the field of military planning and decision-making in the United States and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Also he attended an International Military Law Course, Military Observers Course in the Republic of Turkiye, United Nations Missions Staff Officers Course in Sarajevo, BiH, etc.

He has participated in the planning process and execution of the Shared Resilience 13 and REGEX 19 exercises.

He participated in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan in 2016.

He has been awarded several times by the Ministry of Defense, the Chief of General Staff of the Army and the commanders of the units in which he served.

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