🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ GIZ Sierra Leone – 2 Positions

GIZ is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Guard
2.) Cleaner

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Guard

EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION PROGRAMME 

A project | programme funded by the EU and German Government and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Sustainable, innovative, effective

GIZ offers customized solutions to complex challenges. We are an experienced service provider and assist the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation. We offer demand-driven, tailor-made, and effective services for sustainable development.

GIZ GmbH is supporting the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development of the Government of Sierra Leone in the implementation of the Employment Promotion Programme (EPP). The overall objective is to create employment for the younger generation through business development in the agricultural and other sectors and to enhance the employability of young people in the but not limited to rural areas of Falaba, Kailahun, Kono and Koinadugu.

• Responsibilities

The Guard is responsible for carrying out task associated with the protection of both persons and property and fulfil these in a secure and responsible manner.

• Monitor access points, inspect buildings and ensure a secure environment for GIZ staff
• Responsible for ensuring that individual and vehicles do not present a security risk, for safeguarding and enforcing GIZ rules and for monitoring the building, approach roads and the surrounding areas.
• Report any damage, theft, or other security incidents immediately to your line manager or to Security Management.
• Perform the task assigned to you correctly and on schedule with due regard for the targets and conditions specified by you line manager
• Responsible for keeping the required visitor books for your work area, maintaining the corresponding data, and completing any related administrative task
• Any other task assigned by your line manager

The Guard performs the following tasks:

• Tasks

• General tasks

• Safeguard the protection of all office staff
• Report suspicious behaviour and any unusual incidents, respond and react immediately to alarms and security threats
• Prevent losses and damage by reporting any irregularities, by informing accordingly individuals who fail to comply with regulations and procedures, and by refusing access to unauthorised persons
• As part of your role, you have the authority to grant or refuse access to individuals and vehicles on security grounds
• Check individuals and vehicles wishing to gain access
• Monitor entry and exit
• Monitor security systems and alarms
• Provide protection at events
• Patrol the grounds and compile corresponding reports
• Provide support for clients visiting the office
• Check identity of visitors at the main entrance, query the purpose of their visit or the identity of external visitors and notify the responsible person in the project/programme office
• Update visitor book on a daily basis
• Patrol the office premises during the day and ensure that entry is only permitted to authorised individuals
• Open and lock up the office as required, in accordance with office hours, and grant access to individuals and vehicles
• Your tasks include monitoring compliance with GIZ rules, and maintaining a constant presence in the office
• Respond promptly to alarms
• During night shifts, guard the building, deny access to unauthorised individuals, and prevent theft
• Report any loss from or damage to the premises or equipment, or any suspicious events
• Approach roads and surrounding areas must be constantly monitored in order to identify and respond to risks as early as possible
• Ensure that the security risk management advisor (SRMA) is always kept up to date about any eventualities or unusual circumstances that may arise

• Required qualifications, competences, and experience

Qualifications 

• A Minimum Senior Secondary school education (WASSCE)

Professional experience

• At least 1-3 years’ work experience in a comparable position with references

Other knowledge, additional competences

• Applicant must be over 21 years
• Security related qualification and experience in the security sector
• Willingness to work shifts. Night shift required. You must also be willing to work at week ends and on public holidays
• Desirable: willing to carry out a (Periodic) security check
• Good Communication skills, service oriented and engaging manner, well groomed

Mode of Application:

Suitable candidates are invited to submit their complete application (cover letter, curriculum vitae, and references) as hardcopy to GIZ GmbH, Human Resources Department, 32D Wilkinson Road, Freetown not later than 08.05.2023 OR to the email address [email protected]  

Only applicants shortlisted will be contacted for an interview.

2.) Cleaner

Overview

The Energizing Development Programme Sierra Leone is an energy access programme with the objective of increasing access to affordable modern energy services in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. It is a global initiative in more than 20 countries that GIZ is implementing on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Donor countries are Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. EnDev has been active in Liberia since 2012; in 2014, the project activities were expanded to the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone and Guinea. EnDev cooperates with government institutions, national and local non-governmental organization, donors, and the private sector.

In Sierra Leone, the programme consists of two components a) access to electricity through Pico PV, solar home systems and mini-grids and b) access to improved cooking energy systems through energy-efficient cookstoves, sustainable biomass production.

• Responsibilities

The cleaner is responsible for

• keeping the office premises clean and tidy
• running errands and carrying out other tasks needed to run the office smoothly

The cleaner performs the following tasks:

• Tasks

• Office services 

The cleaner

• cleans the office premises, rooms, furniture, carpets, and windows
• checks and refills supply in all areas, including office supplies and articles in the washrooms and WCs
• supplies the offices with hot and cold beverages and other catering services
• provides services at meetings, e.g., serves coffee and tea for guests and visitors

• Supports office communications and administration

The cleaner

• supports office or project logistics, e.g., takes letters to the post office or hands them to courier services
• makes photocopies and scans documents as needed
• checks office supplies and restocks office materials, e.g., ensuring that fax machines and photocopiers are operational by filling with paper, toner cartridges etc.
• carries out minor repairs as required to keep office equipment operational.

• General tasks

The cleaner

• runs errands, e.g., buys lunch on request for office staff if and when required
• reports damage to office areas and equipment, and organises and monitors maintenance and repair

• Required qualifications, competences, and experience

Qualifications 

• Minimum Senior Secondary school education (WASSCE)

Professional experience

• At least 1-2 years’ work experience in a comparable position with references

Other knowledge, additional competences

• ideally, a knowledge of Krio, or the European language (English) widely used in the country
• sensitivity in handling and disposing of documents which may be important
• reliability and good organisational skills, appropriate appearance, and clothing

Mode of Application:

Suitable candidates are invited to submit their complete application (cover letter, curriculum vitae, and references) as hardcopy to GIZ GmbH, Human Resources Department, 32D Wilkinson Road, Freetown not later than 08.05.2023 OR to the email address [email protected]  

Only applicants shortlisted will be contacted for an interview.

GIZ-Sierra Leone is an equal-opportunity employer, and therefore women are strongly encouraged to apply.