Senior Aviation Safety Associate
Organizational Context
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and building a pathway to peace and prosperity. The Aviation Safety Unit (ASU) at WFP Headquarters ensures the highest practicable level of aviation safety across all operations, providing independent safety assurance and supporting aviation safety strategies and processes globally.
Job Purpose
The Senior Aviation Safety Associate G7 will play a crucial role in managing and ensuring the integrity of WFP Aviation’s global safety data and reporting systems, including ECCAIRS. This position involves conducting in-depth analysis of safety data to support risk management processes, enabling informed decision-making and enhancing overall aviation safety performance. The associate will coordinate the daily management of the safety reporting process, validate data quality, and maintain the safety information repository. Responsibilities include monitoring safety reports, analyzing trends, proposing mitigating actions, and preparing performance updates and dashboards for global and regional offices. The role also supports proactive safety management, contributes to safety audits and assessments, and assists in the continuous improvement of safety frameworks and reporting tools across WFP's aviation operations.
Responsibilities
The primary responsibility is to manage and coordinate the daily operations of the aviation safety reporting process, ensuring high-quality, standardized, and consistent analytical outputs. This involves maintaining the integrity, validation, and analytical quality of aviation safety and security data, working closely with various stakeholders to uphold accurate categorization and coding. A key duty is administering the safety information repository, ensuring proper documentation, control, and secure record-keeping according to WFP standards. The role requires monitoring open safety reports, analyzing trends, identifying necessary follow-up actions, and proposing mitigating safety measures. Preparing occurrence summaries, dashboards, and regular safety performance updates is crucial for supporting oversight, risk monitoring, and decision-making. Furthermore, the position involves conducting trend analysis, safety-risk reviews, and tracking performance indicators to foster proactive safety management and continuous improvement. Analytical support for regional safety operations, including field missions and targeted initiatives, is also a significant responsibility, ensuring alignment with global safety objectives. Contributions to the CARE framework, safety audits, assessments, and investigations, along with supporting the development and standardization of reporting frameworks, are integral to the role. This position demands demonstrated experience in aviation safety data analysis and reporting systems.
Work Experience
Requires demonstrated experience in aviation occurrence reporting, safety data analysis, safety assurance, or related aviation safety functions. Must have experience processing, validating, and analyzing safety-related data using reporting systems. Knowledge of aviation safety principles, ICAO standards, and occurrence-reporting frameworks is essential. Strong analytical skills for trend analysis and safety performance monitoring, along with proven experience liaising with stakeholders for data collection and reporting, are necessary. Ability to identify process improvements and strong communication skills are also required.
Skills
Aviation Safety Data Management, Safety Risk Analysis, Reporting Systems Administration, Trend Analysis, Safety Performance Monitoring, Stakeholder Liaison, Process Improvement, Data Validation, Documentation Control, Audits and Assessments Support