Noise & Airspace Community Forum Chairperson

Noise & Airspace Community Forum Chairperson

Guidant Global is excited to have partnered with a leading global company in its search for an independent Noise and Airspace Community Forum chairperson.

The company aims to operate in a sustainable way while positively engaging with residents, community groups and industry stakeholders. It strives to build relationships with key stakeholder groups based on trust, credibility, and transparency, allowing the organisation to effectively play its part in the economic and social prosperity of its local communities.

The purpose of the Noise and Airspace Community Forum (NACF) is to engage with local authority and community representatives on issues related to the company's operations. The forum listens to the key concerns of the communities surrounding the organisation providing them with the opportunity to have their say. It brings together industry, government and regulator, local authority, and community representatives in one place to allow for an open dialogue with key stakeholders.

Forum membership is made up of nominated representatives from local authorities and the community. This enables local community representatives to work with the Communities & Sustainability team to understand the key concerns and issues of communities living closest to the organisation, working together to mitigate operational impacts with a focus on airspace and noise.

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 organisation's leadership team to enable it to focus on the interests and needs of its local communities who are affected by aircraft noise and airspace change.
• Representing all forum members and their key issues, by feeding their concerns into the organisation's independent oversight body 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 being 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.
• 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.
• 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 practices.

If you are interested or would like further information, please click the apply button today