Safety & Control
You hold a three-dimensional picture of a hundred square kilometres of sky in your head, and you keep every aircraft in it apart.
Monthly, KES
110k – 420k
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Every flight plan in the country is built on a forecast someone had to be brave enough to sign.
Aviation meteorologists forecast the specific weather phenomena that affect flight and brief operational decision-makers.
Aviation weather is a specialism, not general forecasting. Pilots and dispatchers do not need to know whether it will be pleasant — they need to know cloud base, visibility, crosswind component, freezing level, thunderstorm cells, wind shear and turbulence, at specific aerodromes, at specific times.
You will issue TAFs and METARs, monitor developing convection, and brief operations teams when a decision has to be made about whether a route or a landing is viable. When you get it wrong, aircraft divert and money burns; when you get it right, nobody notices. That asymmetry is the job.
Kenya's geography makes it genuinely interesting: highland aerodromes, coastal effects, seasonal convergence zones and afternoon convection that builds fast.
Analyse overnight model output and satellite imagery against what actually happened.
Issue and amend terminal aerodrome forecasts for the aerodromes you cover.
Watch a convective cell develop and decide whether it will affect the approach path.
Brief airline operations and ATC on significant weather.
Verify yesterday's forecasts — the discipline that makes you better.
KCSE C+ with strong Mathematics, Physics and Geography.
BSc in Meteorology, Physics or Atmospheric Science.
Complete World Meteorological Organization aeronautical meteorological forecaster competencies.
Aeronautical meteorology training and unit-specific certification.
Shift forecasting at a meteorological watch office.
Forecaster → Senior Forecaster → Meteorological Watch Office lead, or into climate research, aviation safety analysis and modelling.
Small profession, steady demand, and increasingly computational. Graduates who can code — Python, model post-processing, data pipelines — are markedly more employable.
You hold a three-dimensional picture of a hundred square kilometres of sky in your head, and you keep every aircraft in it apart.
Monthly, KES
110k – 420k
Every single person who boards an aircraft has passed through a system you are responsible for.
Monthly, KES
45k – 250k
We deliver these pathways in person, with someone who does the job standing at the front of the room.