PILOT+

Do you love to soar and climb sunward, through footless halls of air, floating high in the sunlit silence? Yet, you know at the end of the day you will be tired and fulfilled? Can you see yourself enjoying time with missionaries in the dust and heat more than the minutes of cool air up at altitude?

One common purpose that unites all of our pilots is the chance to spend time with missionaries outside of the airplane. We don’t fly a schedule. There are others who do that well. We operate an on-demand, non scheduled flight department. Essentially, we get to be the corporate flight department for God’s precious servants.

This means our pilots spend nights away from home, but those nights are filled with conversations with missionaries from all over the world over a cup of tea. They find joy beyond the landings by serving in a variety of ways. Some days it may be troubleshooting the clutch of a Toyota Hilux truck, or shopping for a missionary’s favorite coffee or honey.

It may also be serving in one of the other roles listed here on this page – managing a team, or fulfilling a required regulatory role so that AIM AIR can remain effective as a professional aviation operator.

While all our pilots love the flying, they also love the many chances to serve that this ministry offers.

Essentially we need pilots who see them selves as pilot + servant.

Click here for Pilot + Qualifications.

Located in Kenya and Uganda

AVIATION MANAGEMENT+

Do you enjoy providing leadership to purpose filled, driven team members? Do you love the challenge of working within a cross-cultural team solving complex challenges?

You probably have not thought of Aviation Management as a role to be used in missions. For AIM AIR, however, the need is rapidly growing. It is no longer an option but a requirement to operate in the same way as other commercial aviation organizations. As we adapt to this need, we also the tremendous opportunity this provides.

If you desire serving missionaries and pastors through a professional aviation role, there are several positions we need your help to fill. A quality manager serves as the primary point person between AIM AIR and the Civil Aviation Authority. This role involves regular interaction with aviation professionals who are the authorities we operate under. At the same time, it involves completing internal audits to ensure AIM AIR does what we say we do, in the right way, at the right time.

If you love to manage projects, we have opportunities for fleet management planning to help us determine the best equipment for our operations. We need a project manager as we seek to construct maintenance facilities in our Uganda base.

Whichever professional role you serve in here, there will be additional opportunities to serve. Most of this will be through relationships. It could be developing relationships within the aviation community, leading to opportunities to disciple and mentor. Or it could be encouraging missionaries when they are in town by praying and connecting with them through meals.

Would you consider being an aviation management + disciple maker or encourager?

Qualifications: Business management degree (aviation management preferred).

Location: Some positions in Kenya, project manager in Uganda.

MEDIA+

Fancy yourself a content creator? Do you like to write, design, film, edit or have a great eye for photography? We are looking for people that can help tell amazing stories, and gather content for our communications initiatives. Our communications team helps inform the global church about stories of God in action. Even while staring at a computer screen or looking through the lens of a camera, there is ministry to accomplish.

If this sounds like something you were made for, we would love to talk to you.

The location to serve is Kenya, but would require travel to gather content.

AVIONICS+

Do you understand the magic inside of electronics? Do you see schematics as a beautiful organized road map to troubleshoot problems, while other mere mortals scratch their heads, and mutter something about letting the smoke out?

Are you willing to talk to a missionary over the phone and help him understand the problem with his modified sine wave solar inverter? Then after the phone call, be ready to return to closing out work orders, or address corrective actions from an FAA (or Kenya Civil Aviation Authority) audit?

Are you the type of person who can relish in the fact that while much of your time is spent at the bench, or under the instrument panel, you know the equipment you touch will keep a precious missionary family safe tomorrow.

While they may never know the work put in, upside down, late at night, you will know you kept them as safe as possible, able to serve the Lord in some of the toughest places on the planet.

IF this sounds like an opportunity you would be excited about, we would love to talk to you.

The qualifications are here.

The location to serve is Kenya, and eventually Uganda.

CARE+

Do you appreciate the value of working with people? Do you work with a willingness to jump into the messiness of their lives?

Perhaps you have been a missionary already, and appreciate the help that the critical role of pastoral care brings. Often those who serve on the mission field come home exhausted and drained. Technical ministry is no different. Instead of difficult people in ministry, there are often other sources of conflict and stress – audits, finances, part shortages, miscommunications, or even disappointment by fellow missionaries.

Perhaps you are a pastor, but have a love for cross cultural teams? Or maybe you are ready to be the surrogate grandfather or grandmother to missionary children living away from their relatives in their home country.

If you have a desire to love and encourage and minister to people serving as support missionaries on the field, and see the value that provides for greater longevity in their role, and overall much stronger support to the mission work in difficult areas, we have an immediate need for a Pastoral Care role.

The qualifications are: Chaplaincy, Pastoral Care, or Missionary Member Care experience. A love to work with people.

The location to serve is Kenya, but would require travel to visit Uganda.

MECHANIC+

Do you wake up having dreamt of rebuilding engines? Does the idea of balancing a propeller thrill you? AIM AIR has opportunities for mechanics that want to also do ministry. Just because you turn wrenches and get your hands greasy doesn’t mean you aren’t doing ministry.

While scheduled 50-, 100- or 200-hour inspections on Cessna 206 and 208 Grand Caravans may not sound all that glorious, they are the bread and butter of keeping our airplanes mission ready! Our team works hard to ensure each airplane that rolls out of the shop is ready for the intense performance demands of bush strips and Africa’s harsh environment.

Our Nairobi Base maintenance shop has calms between the storms. These help with the ongoing needs like tool calibration and upkeep of our Approved Maintenance Organization, like updating training, procedures, manuals, and facilities.

Our mechanics travel to remote areas to assist in helping rebuild engines, fix vehicles, install solar systems and more. Being a missionary mechanic can be far more exciting than many other jobs out there.

Currently the only maintenance base in Nairobi, Kenya. However, AIM AIR intends to develop Arua, Uganda into a maintenance base. This will drastically reduce our repositioning costs, and provide support for like minded ministries in this area. We need maintenance technicians willing to live and serve in this area!