🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Christian Aid – Driver

Freetown | Sierra Leone Posted on Driving / Haulage

Driver – Role profile

LocationFreetown, Sierra LeoneDepartmentInternational
Reports to (Job Title) Business Systems ManagerSalary BandG
Matrix manager (if applicable) Click here to enter text.Competency level5
Role definition
Role purpose

To provide logistics support within Christian Aid’s office in-country. To drive staff, visitors and goods to required destinations timely and safely.  To maintain all Christian Aid vehicles, including safety equipment. To ensure any complex vehicle repairs are carried out by the appropriate service provider.

Key outcomes

  • Ensure vehicles are fueled and log kept as appropriate
  • Adhere to road safety rules and all CA rules
  • Ensure maintenance of vehicles on a periodic basis
  • Pick-up guests and other staff and drop them off to their required destinations
  • Deliver important documents and parcels to required destinations
  • Ensure that all deliveries have been signed and delivered to the correct recipient
  • Always keep vehicle clean and maintained
  • Perform preventative and regular maintenance on vehicle

Role agility

Expected travel per annumOver 75 daysOn call/unsocial hours Yes

Surge capacity for emergency responses No

In order to respond to ever changing demands within the environment, Christian Aid operates within an agile framework (both in workforce and operational) that requires from all employees, a high level of responsiveness and adaptiveness to processes and structures, making flexibility and a project based working approach the norm. To sustain this system, managers may/will agree further details of specific tasks and duties as part of the performance agreement. Any reasonable duty may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility, and employees may be required to change the focus of their role from time to time.

Role context 
The role works within the Administrative Unit and is key to ensuring staff, visitors and goods are taken to their required destination within Christian Aid’s offices in-country. Significant travel within country and occasional travel within region / division required.
Role requirements
Relationships 

External The post holder will interact with implementing partners and visitors in-country and will also be required to have contact with traffic officers.

Internal The role is managed by the Business Systems Manager.  The post holder will work closely with all staff.

Decision making

Budgetary/savings responsibility

Analytical skills

Ability to use judgment to determine safety of travel.

Developing self and others

Number of Direct reports 0Overall people management responsibility 0
Role related checks  

Child protection clearance Not required  Counter terrorism screening Not required

Person specification
Applied skills/knowledge and expertise

Essential

Educated to school certificate level with basic knowledge of computer skills.  Must have driving licence and any other documentation required to drive a vehicle. A minimum of five years professional driving experience.

 

Desirable

 

Other administrative skills.

Digital/IT competencies required 

Word, Excel, PowerPoint BasicWeb content design & developmentN/A
Internet based collaboration tools and video callingN/ASocial MediaBasic
Data VisualisationIntermediate
DATE CREATED17/02/2021

 

Further details of specific tasks and duties will be agreed with the line manager as part of the performance agreement. Any reasonable duty may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility.

This role profile is not prescriptive; it merely outlines the key behaviours the role-holder requires to be successful in the role; the key behaviours and responsibilities are subject to change. Any changes will be made in consultation with the role-holder.

You will be expected to abide by the Code of Conduct, policies and procedures within Christian Aid which may be updated from time to time.

You must empathise with the aims, beliefs and values of Christian Aid as it seeks to work on relief, development and advocacy for poverty eradication.

How to apply 

We invite interested and qualified firms/ individuals to submit an application letter and resume with any other relevant documents to [email protected]  with the subject line, ‘Application for Driver’

Deadline for submissions is end of day Friday 19th May 2023.  Please direct any questions or clarifications to the same address.

About Company

Christian Aid

Job Information

Status: Open No of vacancies: 1 Job type: Full Time Salary: Negotiable Publish date: 11 May 2023

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