Senior Aviation Safety Associate G7

The Senior Aviation Safety Associate supports the Aviation Safety Unit by managing global aviation safety data and reporting systems, conducting safety risk analysis, and supporting safety oversight to improve aviation safety performance at WFP Headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the daily management of the end-to-end aviation safety reporting process, ensuring quality, standardization, and consistent analytical outputs within the ECCAIRS to support global safety oversight.
• Manage and support the integrity, validation, and analytical quality of aviation safety and aviation security (AVSEC) data, coordinating with field offices, regional teams, and air operators to maintain accurate categorization, coding, and data quality standards.
• Administer and maintain the ASU’s safety-information repository, ensuring accurate documentation, control, secure record-keeping, and consistent use of WFP reporting standards.
• Monitor open safety reports, analyse trends, flag required follow-up actions in line with established safety oversight processes, and propose mitigating safety actions.
• Prepare occurrence summaries, dashboards, and regular safety-performance updates to support safety oversight, risk monitoring and management decision-making for ASU Global HQ and regional offices.
• Provide trend analysis, safety-risk reviews, and tracking of safety-performance indicators to contribute to proactive aviation safety management and continuous improvement.
• Perform analytical activities in support of regional safety operations, including contributions to field missions and targeted regional initiatives (e.g. West Africa), ensuring consistency with global safety objectives.
• Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of the CARE framework, ensuring data integrity, analytical robustness, and alignment with WFP Security (SEC) for risk-informed airline selection.
• Support the development and standardization of aviation safety reporting frameworks, ensuring consistency, data quality, and effective use of safety reporting tools across aviation operations.
• Contribute to safety audits, assessments, and investigations by providing analytical support, data insights, and safety intelligence to inform findings and recommendations.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary school education.
• A post-secondary certification on Aeronautics, Aviation Engineering, Air Transport Management, Air Traffic Management, Aviation Quality Assurance or another relevant technical field.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible experience in technical support roles or similar work.
• At least four years of experience in aviation safety, safety data management, or safety assurance.
• Experience working with safety-occurrence reporting systems (preferably ECCAIRS) and safety-data validation/analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in aviation occurrence reporting, safety data analysis, safety assurance, or related aviation safety functions.
• Experience processing, validating, and analysing safety-related data, using software reporting systems.
• Knowledge of aviation safety principles, ICAO standards, and occurrence-reporting frameworks.
• Strong analytical skills, including trend analysis, safety performance monitoring, and preparation of safety-related reports.
• Proven experience liaising with aviation stakeholders to support safety reporting, data collection, analysis, and information sharing, ensuring high standards of data integrity, documentation management, and reporting quality.
• Demonstrated ability to identify process improvement opportunities and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Fluency (level C) in English language, both oral and written communication.
• Intermediate knowledge of a second UN language would be an added advantage.

Skills

• Aviation Safety
• Safety Data Management
• Safety Assurance
• Safety-Occurrence Reporting Systems
• ECCAIRS
• Safety Data Validation
• Safety Data Analysis
• Aviation Occurrence Reporting
• Aviation Safety Principles
• ICAO Standards Compliance
• Occurrence-Reporting Frameworks
• Trend Identification
• Safety Performance Monitoring
• Safety Reporting
• Data Collection
• Documentation Management
• Process Improvement
• Technical Support in Aviation
• Aviation Quality Assurance

Languages

English