Senior Manager, Safety

About the team you are joining Reporting to the Head, Safety, you will be responsible for driving activities in the MENA Region to support continuous improvement in regional aviation safety. Specifically, you will utilize centrally-coordinated IATA policies and procedures to support advancements in regional safety performance; will take a proactive role to identify emerging, regional issues impacting aviation safety and, collaborating with centrally-located IATA experts, determine whether these issues are systemic or local in nature; lead the delivery of regional safety initiatives to support capacity building across industry. You will interface with the regional ICAO office, regulators and other regional associations on safety and regulatory matters. This includes representing IATA in various activity groups to ensure the positions of IATA are reflected in consultations and regional activities. You will support initiatives to enhance safety throughout the region by influencing a network of high-level contacts within airlines, government authorities, relevant stakeholder groups, air navigation service providers, airports. What your day would be like - Leverage the IATA Safety Strategy to deliver on safety priorities, identified though IATA safety management activities and/or IATA governance groups, to achieve the timely implementation of IATA global programs or locally targeted action plans across MENA. - Identify, develop activities, and deliver safety improvement programs aimed to rectify any safety deficiencies within the region collaborating with governments, airlines, ANSPs and airports utilizing regional aviation safety forums. This may include the development of country specific safety strategies. - Engage stakeholders, and actively promote, the IATA Safety Strategy around the three strategic goals relating to Safety Leadership, Safety Risk and Safety Connect to drive the: - evolution of safety culture and reporting; - identification, analysis, and prioritization of safety risks utilizing data-driven insights from IATA GADM and other data-sharing programs; - growth of a safety community, connecting all IATA airlines, across the region. - Support promotion, and engagement, with the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) program. - Coordinate airline input during regional ICAO/CAA rule-making and standard-setting processes. - Respond to tactical issues arising in day-to-day operations in the region as well as provide information and support to IATA member airlines during periods of disruption/contingency operations. - Contribute to the commercial strategy and targets assigned to the region by promoting IATA products and services.