Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer

The Kenya Airports Authority is an autonomous body established in 1991 through an Act of Parliament and is charged with an umbrella responsibility of providing and managing a coordinated system of airports in the country.

Job Purpose

The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the Accounting Officer and is responsible to the Board for day-to-day management and co-ordination of activities in the Authority; defining and executing strategy, generating revenue, engaging customers and stakeholders, managing risk and ensuring compliance, driving performance and growing talent.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing overall strategic leadership of the Authority in line with market and industry changes and through the senior management team, delivering the strategic intent and overseeing the day – to day running of the Authority.
• Engaging with key stakeholders in the development and delivery of strategic customer, government and sector-wide aviation initiatives.
• Presenting strategy, long term capital investment plans, annual budgets and procurement plans to the Board for deliberation and approval.
• Ensuring continuous improvement in the quality and value of services and products provided by the Authority.
• Providing sufficient, accurate and timely information on Authority’s operations, financial status and overall performance to enable the Board fulfill its governance objectives.
• Driving maximum utilization and productivity from all Authority’s assets, ensuring a positive return on all capital investment and operating expenditure, enhancing the balance between aeronautical and non – aeronautical revenues.
• Ensuring the Authority has adequate systems and processes of accountability, risk management and internal control.
• Ensuring that all the Authority’s policies and operations adhere and conform to all legal, statutory and regulatory guidelines and in all undertakings the Authority’s interests are prioritized and safeguarded.
• Establishing and maintaining a high performance culture, driven by talented and competent staff who consistently deliver outstanding results.
• Ensuring performance measures are designed to evaluate performance against the strategic plan.

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Management, Marketing, Statistics, Engineering, Social Sciences or a related field from a recognized institution of higher learning.
• Master’s Degree from a recognized institution of higher learning.
• Certification in Aviation will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of ten(10) years working experience, five (5) of which will be in a senior management/ leadership position with hands on experience and direct responsibility for developing and implementing strategic plans, generating substantial revenues, managing significant capital and operational budgets and delivering positive cash flows and profits.
• Leadership course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a reputable institution.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Strong people management and influencing skills with the ability to build relationships.
• Strategic thinker with good commercial acumen and the ability to identify economic opportunities in a changing environment and capitalize on them.
• Demonstrate decisiveness and adaptability, the ability to drive change and transformation, a sense of urgency and a bias for action and be a high achiever.
• Extensive experience on Organization Design and Implementation with proven track record of organization structures reviewed and implemented.
• Hands on experience in policy formulation and implementation with bias on Public Sector Policies.
• Be an outstanding communicator, have strong leadership, interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders at all levels and cause positive outcomes.

Terms and Conditions

• The appointment shall be for a three (3) year contract term renewable once subject to satisfactory performance or attainment of mandatory retirement age whichever happens earlier.

Application Requirements

Only shortlisted candidates will be required to submit the following clearance certificates (Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010):

• Police Clearance Certificate from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
• Clearance Certificate from Higher Education Loans Board (HELB).
• Tax Compliance Certificate from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
• Clearance from the Ethics & Anti-corruption Authority (EACC).
• Report from an approved Credit Reference Bureau (CRB).