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ABOUT THE ROLE

Introduction from the Secretary of State

This is an important time for the Department for Transport. We are investing heavily in infrastructure and public transport to improve journeys, boost connections, level up the country and support economic growth. Central to our mission is delivering transport that works for everyone in our society. We are recruiting for two non-executive directors to join our team on the Board of the CAA. The CAA is the United Kingdom’s independent aviation and aerospace regulator for airspace, consumer rights, economic regulation, safety, security compliance and spaceflight. Further details about the CAA are in its 2022-23 Annual Report. 

The position requires experience at board level in supporting either consumer interests or emerging technologies as well as strategy, risk, and financial management & reporting; and delivery of significant organisational change programmes. Appointees will contribute to the CAA’s direction by providing constructive challenge to the CAA’s executive team to help ensure the CAA delivers its strategic objectives, drawing on consumer experience where appropriate, and engaging with specific stakeholders to increase the CAA’s visibility. One appointee will also chair the Air Travel Trust Fund. Both appointees will take part in a programme to engage with specific stakeholders to increase visibility. We strongly welcome applications from all backgrounds. As part of the Department’s commitment to diversity, we believe our public appointments should reflect our customers – the travelling public – who come from all walks of life and have different experiences. We very much welcome fresh talent, expertise, and perspectives, to help us better understand the needs of the communities we serve and support better decision making for all. This includes people who may have never applied for a public appointment – but could bring new ideas, insights and energy.

Introduction from the Chair

The Civil Aviation Authority has a vital public service role, promoting the safety, security, and consumer interests of those who fly, whilst also protecting those on the ground underneath. We also have a vital role in leading and enabling the air and space aerospace sectors, helping ensure that the UK continues to be a global leader in aerospace.These are exciting but exceptionally challenging times: we need to ensure that the existing air and space sector continues to be safe and effective; we must chart a course to environmentally sustainable aviation; we need to modernise UK airspace; we need to ensure that UK aerospace continues to thrive outside the EU; we need to create the right environment for new technologies, as well as further develop our role as the UK’s Space regulator; we need to do much more to promote innovation, STEM, and diversity in aerospace; and we must constantly do more for consumers.

We also must have the People strategies within the CAA which ensure we can deliver this ambitious agenda. The CAA Board ensures that we maintain excellence in our day-to-day responsibilities, whilst setting our organisation for the future. Our non-executive directors are at the heart of the Board’s work, providing vital insight, guidance, challenge, and support. In recruiting two new non-executive directors to the Board, I’m excited by the opportunity to be able to work with great individuals who will give us the skills, experience, and diversity that the Board needs to define and deliver the CAA of the future.

I very much look forward to meeting you.

Sir Stephen Hillier

Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority

Additional introductions

I was appointed as a CAA non-executive director in July 2019. My motivation lay in a desire to contribute to the fast-paced aerospace industry at a time of great challenge and opportunity. As a board member I am able to contribute my governance skills in aviation, safety, technology, and business transformation. Innovation in aviation is accelerating in areas such as automated flight, sustainable aviation, space and more. It’s a truly exciting and important time to make a difference. The CAA is a vibrant, diverse learning organisation with an exceptional culture. Our people embrace innovation, while ensuring safety, security and consumer protection remain at the forefront of everything we do. As a non-executive director, we play a key governance role and offer healthy challenges in areas such as performance-based regulation of airports, airlines, and airspace. In addition to the regular board responsibilities, I belong to the Audit and People Committees, and the Safety Leadership Group. I am also a member of the board of CAAi, the international arm of the CAA.

Katherine Corich

Civil Aviation Authority, non-executive director

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Roles

Two UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) non-executive directors - with expertise in either:

• Consumer Interests; or
• Emerging Technologies & Innovation

Your Role

Your role would be to:

• Provide independent and constructive challenge to the CAA’s executive team to help ensure the CAA delivers its strategic objectives, drawing on consumer experience where appropriate.
• One of the appointees will also serve as the Chair of the Air Travel Trust Fund.
• Both appointees will take part in a programme to engage with specific stakeholders to increase internal and external visibility.
• Contribute effectively to discussions on the leadership and performance of the business at the CAA Board and non-executive meetings (around 10 to 12 half day meetings a year).

You will have:

•  Relevant Board level executive or non-executive experience;
•  The skills and experience both to contribute across the breadth of the CAA’s complex business-as-usual activity, whilst helping define the CAA of the future in a rapidly evolving sector;
•   Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to represent the CAA and enhance CAA/stakeholder relationships; and
•   An awareness of and ability to operate in sensitive political and economic environments.

ORGANISATION DESCRIPTION / ABOUT THE CAA

Aviation is in exciting but exceptionally challenging times: the CAA must be relentless effective in its responsibilities for safety, security and consumer interests; it is helping chart a course to environmentally sustainable aviation; it needs to ensure that UK aerospace continues to thrive outside the EU; to create the right environment for new technologies, including through the CAA’s relatively new role as the UK’s Space regulator; to do more to promote innovation, STEM, and diversity in air and space and to develop further its ability to match consumers expectations, achieving this through its people and creating a culture that enables them to thrive. The CAA’s role as a regulator, influencer and strategic partner has never been more important. As a non-executive director, you will know what a pivotal role you, as an individual, and your peers will play. The challenges and opportunities are significant. Being excited by these challenges, the CAA expect the successful applicants to be so much more than leading non-executive directors. For example, the senior team strive to lead by example on actively listening, supporting, engaging, and championing the development of diversity and inclusion at the CAA.

Your positive influence will spread across the organisation. Your high emotional intelligence and dexterity will be prominent when you demonstrate living the CAA’s values and professionally representing what the CAA stands for. Taking the whole CAA with you, you will live and breathe the CAA’s vision that features the CAA’s core work in safety, security and consumer protection, whilst also embracing new technology, space and sustainability.

Why does the CAA exist?

The CAA is the UK’s civil aviation regulator. Recognised as a world leader in its field, the CAA is at the cutting edge of the exciting and ever-changing aviation environment. Never standing still, the CAA’s work includes activities such as:

·       Managing safety and security risks, safeguarding passengers and the general public;

·       Driving world class change;

·       Minimising the environment impact of aviation on local communities;

·       Running the ATOL holiday financial protection scheme; and

·       Helping innovators to deliver the future of aviation.

Thanks to the efforts of the CAA’s organisation and its people, consumers are safe, secure and have choice, value for money and protection when they fly. As part of the CAA’s team, you could help to deliver this vision and be part of something great. In return, you can expect to feel welcome and to have your voice heard. The CAA is a public corporation, established by Parliament in 1972 as an independent aviation regulator. The UK Government normally requires that the costs are fully covered by charges to those to whom the CAA provides a service or regulates.

The CAA values are:

·       Respect everyone

·       Do the right thing

·       Build collaborative relationships

·       Never stop learning

Regulation of appointment

This post is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. For more information, please refer to the Commissioner’s website 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential criteria

1.  Experience of providing challenge and support to the Executive, whilst building consensus with a range of stakeholders;
2.  Experience at board level in supporting either Consumer Interests (including experience of economic regulation) or Emerging Technologies & Innovation;
3.  Experience of Strategy, Risk, Financial Management & Reporting; and
4.  Experience of the delivery of significant organisational change programmes.

Candidates suitability for the role will be assessed against criteria 1- 4 above.

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of the aerospace sector or regulation is not an essential requirement for either of these roles.

The Secretary of State for Transport may invite a non-executive directors to serve as Deputy Chair and Senior Independent Director in the future.

CLOSING DATE: 21st February 2024

INTERVIEWS EXPECTED TO CONCLUDE: on the 3rd  May 2024, Timeline subject to Change 

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