Regional Director External Affairs & Sustainability Africa at International Air Transport Association (IATA)

What Your Day Would Be Like

• Designing and implementing advocacy, lobbying, and influencing policy-making through one regional agenda in order to increase IATA’s relevance and visibility among Governments, regulators, and industry stakeholders, notably by designing and implementing regional advocacy plans, and sitting on industry committees and forums such as the ECAC Economic Working Group
• Providing RVP strategic support by defining priorities, providing market and lobbying intelligence, briefings and reports
• Managing Events, specifically external advocacy events and stakeholder meetings, internal meetings such as RMMs and RLT
• Providing knowledge management and business intelligence to MC, RVP, RLT (Regional Leadership Team)Develop and coordinate action plans on a country by country basis, to manage the priorities and targets across the region, ensuring both a unified regional approach and an adequate country-specific coverage of the external affairs and sustainability topics.
• Build a medium to long term yet dynamic strategy in external affairs and sustainability for Africa
• Own planning and execution of all External Affairs and Sustainability annual campaigns, new central divisional initiatives, IATA industry-wide programs and regional priorities agreed upon in the External Affairs and Sustainability strategy
• Support the account managers in advocating key External Affairs and Sustainability positions to national governments and regulatory authorities, including general legislative, regulatory and policy developments, and other specific rules or policies related to the broader scope of IATA activities;
• Foster a culture of inclusion, integrity, team spirit, strategic thinking, partnering, innovative pioneering and acting with a human touch

We would love to hear from you if

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Political Science, International Relations or any other relevant discipline
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in a similar role with at least 5 years of experience in a senior management role at regional level
• Experience in the aviation industry
• Experience in governmental and legal affairs as well as economic matters related to the aviation industry
• Experience in influencing decision makers at CEO and DGCA level at regional level
• A strong track record of successful public speaking engagement
• Advanced Proficiency in MS Office
• Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree is an asset e.g. MBA
• Previous Experience in managing, leading or overseeing projects is an asset
• Prior experience in a commercial role would be an asset
• Proficiency in CRMs (e.g. Salesforce)