About FlySafair

FlySafair is a South African low-cost airline based in Johannesburg. It is known for its affordable domestic and regional flights and for consistently being a top performer in on-time arrivals. FlySafair serves numerous destinations across Southern Africa, including major South African cities like Johannesburg (O.R. Tambo and Lanseria), Cape Town, Durban, and Port Elizabeth.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a multi-year training strategy that integrates business-driven L&D priorities with regulatory compliance requirements.
• Oversee the governance of L&D frameworks and policies, ensuring quality assurance, compliance with regulatory requirements, and alignment with long-term organisational goals.
• Lead organisation-wide capability reviews to identify and mitigate future workforce risks, ensuring readiness for business transformation.
• Provide leadership and oversight of the L&D strategy, ensuring alignment with business transformation, and long-term talent needs.
• Oversee organisation-wide capability planning by consolidating skills gap analyses into long-term workforce and succession strategies.
• Ensure that learning and development initiatives are directly aligned to these strategies, supporting organisational transformation and future capability needs.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure L&D priorities address current and emerging capability gaps.
• Guide the design and governance of leadership, technical, and soft skills programmes, ensuring consistent quality, impact, and alignment with organisational goals.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through modern approaches, including blended learning, digital platforms, and coaching/mentoring frameworks.
• Oversee the Learning Management System (LMS), ensuring content relevance, accessibility, and user engagement.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory, industry, and professional regulatory training requirements (e.g., aviation, safety, occupational health regulations etc).
• Liaise with regulatory bodies, accreditation authorities, and internal compliance stakeholders to ensure programmes remain valid, accredited, and up to date.
• Monitor and report on training compliance levels, proactively addressing risks and gaps.
• Drive the standardisation and documentation of training practices to meet audit requirements.
• Deliver accurate, timely, and comprehensive monthly and quarterly training reports (including training hours, completion rates, costs vs. budget, ROI, and impact metrics) to ExCo/HR leadership.
• Ensure 100% accuracy of training data and provide trend analysis with actionable insights to support workforce planning and skills development strategies.
• Maintain 100% compliance with statutory/regulatory training reporting requirements (e.g., TETA submissions, aviation/regulatory training logs where applicable).
• Develop and maintain training dashboards for senior leadership that highlight key trends (e.g., compliance rates, skills gaps, L&D effectiveness).
• Translate training data into recommendations, ensuring actionable insights are incorporated into strategic HR/OD plans per quarter.
• Establish training governance frameworks, policies, and systems that meet both business and regulatory expectations.
• Implement robust monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to measure ROI, learning effectiveness, and compliance outcomes.
• Ensure training providers and facilitators meet professional and ethical standards (where applicable).
• Own and manage the Training budget, ensuring cost-effectiveness, ROI, and alignment to priorities.
• Negotiate and manage vendor and provider relationships at a strategic level.
• Champion learning innovation (AI-driven learning, digital platforms, predictive analytics, skills marketplaces).
• Position the organisation as a learning organisation, embedding continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Anticipate and prepare for future skills trends (digital, regulatory, AI etc).
• Lead and develop a high-performing training team across L&D and regulatory training portfolios.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., HR, Compliance, Safety, Line Managers, Regulatory Authorities) to deliver integrated training solutions.
• Influence and advise senior leadership on talent and compliance risks related to training gaps.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12 or Equivalent (Essential);
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Psychology, or related field (Esential);
• Honours degree in relevant field or Business Leadership (Essential);
• ETDP SETA accredited (Advantageous);
• Master’s degree in relevant field or Business Leadership (Advantageous);
• 10-12 years’ relevant experience in a mid-size organisation, of which, at least 5 years should be in the aviation training industry (Essential);
• Minimum of 5 years managerial experience (Essential);
• Proven experience in developing and managing soft skills training across various departments (Essential);
• Proven experience in managing Aviation Regulatory training (Essential);
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant CATs and CARs regulations (Essential);
• Sound knowledge of SACAA regulations, and company policies (Essential);
• Knowledge of Standard Operating Procedures (Essential);
• Knowledge of educational and training techniques and methods (Essential);
• Knowledge of aviation training systems (Essential).