AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OFFICER 2

Duties and Responsibilities

To plan, execute, and monitor the control of aircraft movement for the purpose of preventing collision through the use of air traffic control clearances and instructions to arriving and departing aircraft within the aerodrome traffic zone.To provide information for the safe, orderly, and economic conduct of flights outside controlled airspace.To alert emergency services, assist aircraft in emergencies, and determine the course of action regarding the aircraft in emergencies.To notify military or state organs in respect to aircraft being subjected to unlawful interference, bomb scares, or any possibility of civil aircraft interception.To coordinate and communicate effectively with other air traffic control units within the flight information region and with adjacent flight information regions where necessary.o transmit metrological conditions to pilots and other agencies.To record information regarding a condition or incident that warrants a written record.To perform any other related duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor.

QualificationsHolder Bachelor's Degree in one of the following fields: Air Traffic Management, Physics, Mathematics, Geographical Information Systems, Geomatics, Statistics from a recognized Institution and Air Traffic Control License endorsed withan Aerodrome rating. Must have passed Physics and Mathematics at the Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education.

RemunerationTCAA.SS.8

Independence eraPre-Independence formal aviation activities in East Africa started in 1929 by a lady called Mrs Florence Wilson based in Nairobi, Kenya. Mrs Wilson established Wilson Airways for charter services and later scheduled airmail services between Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kampala. The airline existence ended in 1939 following the outbreak of the world war and all its aircraft were taken by the then Air Force.A single authority for air transport responsible to the governments of Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Uganda and Kenya, then under the British colonial empire, was recommended by a Committee in 1943. Thereafter this led to the establishment of East African Airways Corporation (EAAC) incorporated in London in October 1945. In 1948 the East African High Commission was established which provided among others common services in transport and communications. Air transport was managed by this Commission.