Career Opportunities: Flight Follower SC4 - Yaoundé (145901)

Akwajobs   (Yaounde, Cameroon)

Posted : 13 August, 2021

Category : Air transportation   Location : Yaounde, Cameroon

Job type : Full Time

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Job Title:  Flight Follower

Job Level: SC-4 (Service Contract) ? National Position

Number of openings: 01

Unit/ Division: UNHAS

Contract duration: 12 months

Duty station: Yaoundé

 

About WFP

 

Assisting almost 100 million people in around 83 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

 

Our mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.

 

Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

 

Organisational context

 

In Cameroon, the WFP Cameroon Country Strategic Plan [CSP] (2018 – 2021) endeavours to ensure that targeted food-insecure and vulnerable populations benefit from more sustainable and inclusive food systems and increased resilience to shocks to meet their food and nutrition needs. Under this CSP, WFP will design and implement interventions to address food and nutrition security challenges, from production through to consumption.

In line with the CSP, WFP will apply its vast comparative advantages including experiences in delivery of food assistance to hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable in timely, innovative, cost effective and sustainable ways, its deep field presence, logistics and supply chain, partnerships and relationships with national and regional authorities to; a) strengthen national systems and capacities to deliver food and nutrition security; b) contribute to greater efficiency in crisis response interventions; c) ensure access to nutritious food rather than provision while building the national capacities and systems for social protection, emergency preparedness and response and government-led programmes and services; and d) increase resilience by focusing on food systems  rather than access to food, through development of integrated solutions that can be scaled up by Government and the private sector.

 

What will you do?

 

You will be responsible for all Flight Following tasks as shown in the key responsibilities below.

 

Why work with us?

 

• WFP provides food assistance to more than 86 million people in 83 countries, including Cameroon. Your work will have a positive impact on lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
• You will join a diverse team of professionals and will have an opportunity to exchange your experiences with your colleagues and continuously learning from each other.
• WFP invests in the training and development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, mentorship and other programs as well as through international mobility opportunities.
• Our team is growing nationally and internationally and the timing to join us cannot be better!

Join us to make a difference, watch this video to know more about us!!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnaxfnNKdsM

 

Key Responsibilities (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

 

At this position, under the supervision and guidance of the Air Transport Officer (ATO) and under the overall supervision of the WFP AFO Chief Air Transport Officer (CATO) you will:

 

• Maintain a flight operations communications watch and link with WFP AFO aircraft and field stations using HF, VHF and other forms of communication.
• Obtaining of all flight clearances for national and international flights.
• Obtaining and distribution of required slot times.
• Receiving, processing, recording and disseminating of departure and arrival times of flights.
• Distribution of Daily Flight Schedules once received from ATO.
• Record, process, compile and prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports on flying hours, aircraft status, passenger and cargo loads.
• Establish and maintain a radio communication logbook.
• Ensure comprehensive filing and reporting of all flight following operations.
• Establish and maintain a database of airfields and landing sites.
• Check daily airfield and weather status at airfields and advise accordingly.
• Check all NOTAMs and instructions from controlling authorities and advise accordingly.
• Any other task required in the context of WFP / AFO flight operations in the region as instructed by the CATO/ATO.

 

Qualifications and Key Requirements

 

Education: Completion of secondary school education (GCE A Level or Baccalaureat). A Degree / Diploma from a recognised university is desirable.

 

Experience:

• At least 3 years of professional experience in a relevant field of work, with a reputable organization
• Advanced knowledge of UN and WFP Corporate policies, as well as UNHAS, ICAO regulations, policies, rules and procedures in the area of work
• Computer literacy.

 

Languages: Fluency in in both written and spoken English and the language of the duty station.

 

Deadline for application

 

Date: 24th August 2021 at 11:59 PM (GMT+1).

 

This position open to Cameroonian nationals only

 

Terms and Conditions

 

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting an inclusive work environment in which diversity is valued and where no form of discrimination is tolerated. We aim to achieve parity in our teams in West and Central Africa.

 

Qualified female applicants are especially encouraged to apply.

 

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate based on HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

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