September 17th, 2020 at 11:26 am
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for GIZ Ghana Job recruitment in September 2020.
- Safely and responsibly performing all official travel using official vehicles
- Regularly servicing and taking good care of official vehicles
- Taking account of all available information on road conditions, accessible routes and locations
- Running official errands and
- Assisting with other office work, when not driving
Tasks
1. Driving
The driver
- Provides passenger transport in an official car for office project or programme staff official visitors and guests
- Runs errands for the project, programme or office, eg sending letters and messages paying bills and buying smaller quantities of office supplies
- Helps with transporting goods
- Completes the vehicle log correctly and conscientiously in accordance with GIZ standards
2 Service
The driver
- Cleans the interior and exterior of the vehicle(s) regularly
- Ensures the vehicle is clean at all times
- Is responsible for the project vehicle documents and their vehicle log and recording monthly maintenance
- Calculates monthly petrol, oil and lubricant consumption for the daily cash fund and for forwarding monthly vouchers to cost accounting
- Reports need for service and carries out minor repairs
- Immediately reports all involvement of the project or office vehicle in accidents, including minor accidents, damage, loss or theft of vehicle fittings
3. Knowledge management
The driver
• Uses all available information (incuding current radio news on traffic conditions) to update daily knowledge of road conditions, current passable routes and locations, and shares this information with other office drivers
4. Other duties additional tasks
The driver
Assists other colleagues as needed in the project, programme or office it there is no travel or chauffeur service pending, carries out other office work on request
Your Profile
Qualifications
- Secondary school education
- Holds a valid driver’s licence D
Professional experience
- At least 1-3 years’ work experience as a driver with references
- No major accidents in the past 3 years
Other knowledge, additional competences
- Good knowledge of the English language, ideally a knowledge of German
- Discipline and punctuality
- Does not use the vehicle for private purposes
- Resilience and patience
- Familiarity within specified locations
- Appropriate appearance and attire (possibly uniform, friendly manner with all passengers)
- Ensures unrestricted availability of vehicles at all times and reports restrictions immediately
- Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management
How to Apply
Interested and suitable applicants are to forward their detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a one page cover letter to: hr-ghana@giz.de under the job code 2020/GOV ID/09/01. Kindly also state the locations that you are interested in Northern, North East, Savanna, Western North, Ahafo or Bono East Regions
Please note If you do not hear from us two (2) weeks after the deadline, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Closing date: 30.09.2020