Licensed Flight Dispatcher

Role purpose

Flight planning and performance

• Analyze routes and flight altitudes, negotiate user-preferred routes with relevant air traffic control organizations, and calculate and manage fuel requirements.
• Select take-off, destination, en-route, fuel, and ETOPS alternate airports, and conduct ETOPS diversion and ETP strategy analysis.
• Calculate take-off and landing performance and regulated weights; assess performance penalties and payload impacts, and optimize commercial payload within the legal framework.
• Collate and sign flight releases, prepare and file ATC flight plans, and deliver flight and briefing documentation to operating crews on time.

Flight monitoring and coordination

• Negotiate airport and airway slots with government agencies to manage and avoid potential delays.
• Monitor flights until touchdown, considering weather, technical problems, airport availability, traffic flow, and security threats.
• Develop alternative plans when a flight risks leaving its safe operating envelope; coordinate recovery and support crew decisions and troubleshooting.
• Support the Dispatch Duty Manager during disruption events.
• Periodically quality-check ground handling agent briefing and dispatch services at outstations during route familiarization flights.

Qualifications and skills

• Hold a GCAA dispatch license and have at least one year of experience exercising its privileges; alternatively, hold an ICAO dispatch license recognized by GCAA, provide an issuing-authority verification letter, and have at least three years of documented relevant experience.
• Alternatively, have at least five years of documented major-airline dispatcher experience where a flight dispatch license does not exist or is not required.
• Be proficient in computerized flight planning and computerized flight watch.

Salary and benefits

• The posting describes the salary as attractive and tax-free but does not provide a compensation amount or pay cadence.
• Benefits mentioned include discounted travel, hotel stays, leave, healthcare, transport, and life insurance.