Senior Avsec Coordinator at United Nigeria Airline

United Nigeria Airlines is a wholly owned Nigerian company incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990 at the Corporate Affairs Commission to offer commercial air transportation services under the trade name United Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Avsec Coordinator

Location: Abuja / Enugu (as applicable)
Effective Date: TBA
Reports to: CSO
Department: Security

Job Summary

• The Reputation Officer supports United Nigeria Airlines in protecting, monitoring, and enhancing the airline’s public image across all media channels.
• The role combines reputation management with strong content creation and video production skills to ensure timely communication, positive brand storytelling, and proactive management of issues that may impact customer perception and corporate credibility.

Duties / Responsibilities
Assisting the Chief Security Officer with respect to the initiation of all policies relating to the Avsec Department:

• Ensuring UNA flight operations are safe and secure whilst complying with mandatory and recommended operating procedures;
• Ensuring that all aspects of UNA Avsec manuals are complied with in all phases of UNA daily activities.
• Assisting in the performance and monitoring standards of security efficiency, safety, and training.
• Implementation of aviation preventive security measures.
• Coordinating and implementing site and operations security plan to ensure protection of executives, managers, employees, physical and information assets, while ensuring optimal use of personnel and equipment.
• Carrying out personnel clearances, special access requests and other personnel clearance actions.
• Develop, implements, interprets, and manages background checks on potential employees, vendors, subcontractors and clients as necessary.
• Initiate or Supports investigations of potential or actual violations of company security violations or breaches.
• Coordinates and schedules the deployment of a quality control security team to ensure maximum coverage of all approved scheduled programmes.
• Meets with subordinates to outline tasks and responsibilities.
• Carry out yearly security audits of company assets and infrastructure.
• Carry out residential threat/risk assessment for all UNA residences.
• Carry out pre-employment and yearly staff background checks.
• Oversee the activities of the contract security firms.
• Responsible for intelligence gathering and collation.
• Generating weekly and monthly threat assessment for the company.
• Meet monthly with third party service providers to review performance and resolve any issue.

Experience & Qualification
Education qualification:

• University Degree or its equivalent.

Professional training:

• Basic Aviation Security training
• Aviation Security Cargo and Mail training
• Aviation Security Supervisor training
• Aviation Security Management training.
• Successful completion of a background check.
• Have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in aviation secure.

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Must have demonstrated good interpersonal skills such as communication, integrity, good diplomacy, discretion and flexibility, when appropriate;
• Must be physically and mentally sound;
• Must be computer literate;
• Must have been in aviation related field for not less than Five (5) years;
• Must have undergone a satisfactory background investigation including clearance of access to sensitive information;
• Experience in security-related quality control/assurance activities will be an added advantage;
• Must have good report writing skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Resume and cover letter detailing their relevant experience, Location and qualifications to: careers@flyunitednigeria.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.