DRIVER

Are you a driver who can be trusted for safe transportation of personnel, items and visitors, who is passionate about children’s safety and rights? Would you like to learn new skills, while contributing to our work to stop child exploitation? Become a Driver as part of Ethiopia Country Office Team Terre des Hommes Netherlands!

About Terre des Hommes

Terre des Hommes Netherlands aims to protect children by preventing and stopping child exploitation. And by empowering children to make their voices count. Terre des Hommes Netherlands focuses on (Online) Sexual Exploitation of Children, Child Labour and Humanitarian Action. For each of these forms of child exploitation, Terre des Hommes Netherlands is developing and implementing projects and programmes through local partners, mainly in Asia, Africa and Europe. Join us!

What will you work on:

The Driver is a representative of the organization and a service-oriented and customer-focused attitude is expected. To assist the Terre des Hommes office in logistics and car maintenance to ensure effective and efficient service delivery. Your tasks may include:

Office Transportation

• To ensure safe and timely transportation or pick up of the office staff and office visitors and items as instructed.
• To ensure adherence to all national driving laws in Ethiopia and adherence to the office Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and internal guidelines.

Office vehicle maintenance & administration

• Maintain the good condition of the office vehicle.
• Ensure good and timely maintenance of the vehicles such as technical maintenance and cleanness and advise the office timely on the routine maintenance or other maintenance of the vehicles;
• To maintain the office vehicle legal documents availability such as driver license, vehicle number, vehicle insurance, and any other vehicle legal documents.
• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of office vehicle administration/journey miles/logbooks
• Prepare monthly fuel consumption reports and report to the Finance and Administration Officer
• If applicable: To ensure legal papers at border crossings

Logistics (Procurement and People logistics)

• To ensure adherence to the Terre des Hommes procurement rules and regulations in regards to purchases and logistics, obtain quotations of good suppliers, purchase items and services from good suppliers as per procurement regulations and assist the Finance and admin officer in any other logistical or messages jobs related to the office operations.
• To assist in ensuring that all logistical bookings for Terre des Hommes office staff or other officials traveling for the office, other than logistics per office car, travel documents are organized in a timely manner and assist in all travel and transport of people as instructed and as per SOP’s and travel regulations;

Safety & security

• To be a member of the country office security team and to ensure, with the security focal person, a safe working environment for all the office staff traveling by checking safety information before traveling.
• To engage in sorting out calamities with the Finance and admin team and the Country manager or any other appointed decision maker, of staff in various difficult situations, related to work, and act based upon them as per the Security Manual and Standard Operating Procedures

Other common activities

• To assist the Finance and Admin staff in handling the office administration works such as attainability and reception, filing of documents, copying and scanning of documents, faxing of documents, data entry, office errands, collecting mails from the post and register incoming – outgoing mail.
• Performing ad hoc work to support other departments, such as assisting in taking pictures during field trips, support events, workshops, support general office running and programmes where needed.

We are looking for a motivated and hands-on Driver, who:

• At least 5 years experience in driving as a professional driver.
• Verbal and written capability in English and local languages
• Knowledge of security and first aid training.
• Knowledge of the security situation in the respective areas of Terre des Hommes operation.
• Knowledge of the traffic rules and regulations in the various parts of Ethiopia
• Knowledge of and experience in logistics and procurement.
• Knowledge of the organization’s services.
• Availability outside office hours and weekends if necessary
• Valid & relevant driving license.
• Intermediate Vocational Education work & thinking level.

What do we have to offer?

Because Terre des Hommes Netherlands carries out programmes and projects itself, the difference is that the organisation, and therefore also your contribution, is visible and tangible every day. We offer:

• An opportunity where you can really make a difference for children;
• An organisation with enthusiastic and highly skilled colleagues;
• An easily accessible office with wonderful colleagues
• A one year renewable contract; based of funds availability
• A 40 hours a week;
• Monthly salary of between Euro 400-500, based on skills and experience
• Monthly transport allowance of Euro 27
• 24 days annual leave
• 13th Month salary
• Education grants up to 4 children, TnC apply.
• And many other benefits in addition to a fabulous team and working environment
• Possible start date in February