Job Description

Providing independent chairing of Noise and Airspace Community Forum meetings and representing its members to ensure the organisation delivers on its community objectives and that partners appropriately support and challenge each other to do so.
Bringing an independent view to the organisations leadership team to enable it to focus on the interests and needs of communities near the airport who are affected by aircraft noise and airspace change.
Representing all forum members and their key issues, by feeding their concerns into the Council for the Independent Scrutiny of the Airport (CISHA) when appropriate.
Fostering constructive dialogue between all stakeholders and community groups.
Applying scrutiny to decisions and processes to ensure fairness, transparency, and engagement.
Acting independently and with integrity, giving impartial guidance as required.
Working with the forum's independent technical advisor who will provide specialised advice to the chair on technical subject matters.

Skills, Experience and Abilities:

You will be able to demonstrate your independence with no prior conflict of interest, you are not currently an employee of, or contracted to the organisation, and not connected to a local community group.
You will be able to clearly demonstrate an ability to be objective and impartial. Your career to date will show evidence of transparency and honesty.
You will need to demonstrate an interest or prior experience of complex, sensitive issues with the capacity to quickly understand operational concepts and the ability to utilise technical advice.
You will need the ability to effectively chair meetings, instigate healthy debate, motivate, and manage discussions to achieve purposeful decisions.
The chair will lead constructive, open discussions on complex topics, requiring excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and the ability to communicate with tact, diplomacy, and sensitivity.
You should be able to show strong public leadership credentials with experience of effectively chairing diverse and multi-stakeholder groups to achieve outcomes, while also able to engage effectively at a personal level with individual members of the forum.

Ideally, you'll also have:

An understanding of the political landscape, relevant bodies and Government agencies with the responsibility for overseeing the applicable standards, rules and policies for airspace, air traffic management and aircraft noise.
A knowledge of air traffic management, aircraft operating characteristics, flight navigation procedures, airport operations, the airspace change process, aircraft noise and its impact on quality-of-life measures including available mitigations.
A knowledge of the regulatory framework and relevant global and national policies and agreements pertaining to the safety of flight navigation and the management of the impact of aircraft noise, including industry best practice.

Working location

Although the Airport is your place of work, the role is flexible with the ability to meet with colleagues at the airport and with communities as required, including chairing meetings from agreed locations. This means that you can work from home but will need to come to the airport occasionally. We require you to be based in the UK.

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