Driver - Breakthrough Action Nigeria Secondary School (SSCE) Job

Location: Kano

Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

The Driver is responsible for coordinating the Project vehicle fleet to facilitate movement of staff and relevant stakeholders by vehicles from their originating destination to their final destination or vice versa and support the administrative team on all vehicle logistics concerns.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Ensures provision of reliable and safe driving services by driving office vehicles for the transport of project staff, consultants, goods and other stakeholders.

Support with coordinating transport requests and vehicle allocation to trips on the project vehicle fleet.

Coordinating fueling arrangements for project vehicles and ensuring vehicles are adequately fueled for project work.

Preparation of monthly analysis report of project vehicles fleet fuel utility and other vehicle expenses.

Ability to embark on field missions to states within the area of responsibilities

Ensures cost saving through proper use of vehicle and accurate daily maintenance

Provision of inputs in the preparation of the vehicle fleet maintenance plans and reports.

Ensures proper use of vehicle fleet maintenance plans and assistance in preparing vehicle history reports

Maintain a vehicle log to record the daily trips of each vehicle in the fleet.

Coordinate the provision of necessary services like dispatch and collection of mails as may be directed.

Ensures availability of all required documents and components/gadgets on all project vehicles

Tracking of project vehicle fleet insurance and other relevant vehicle papers for renewal as at when due

Ensures that the steps required by rules and regulations are taken in case of involvement in an accident/incident

Maintains the standard procedure and practice in fueling and servicing.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications & Competencies

Minimum of a Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE). Diploma Preferred.

Minimum of 7 years driving experience with a USAID funded Project/ International organization;

At least 3 years of professional experience in a similar position

Good knowledge of vehicle maintenance issues and procedures

Candidates must possess skills in defensive driving, security & emergency driving and executive driving skills

Valid Nigeria’s driver’s license and good knowledge of the highway codes of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

High level of interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity to effectively interact with, local communities, partner staff, and policymakers

A good communicator, with excellent written and verbal skills in both English and Hausa languages.

Experience with International NGOs

Thorough knowledge of the project state, locations of NGOs, meeting venues, etc.

Application Closing Date

8th August, 2023.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should forward PDF copies of their CV to: hiring@ba-nigeria.org The subject of the email should be the job title and location (of choice) e.g., ‘Driver, Kano’.

Note: Qualified female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

Breakthrough Action Nigeria (BA-N) is a USAID-funded Social Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication Project with the goal of increasing the practice of priority individual and household level health behaviors in target states on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health plus Nutrition (MNCH+N), Family Planning (FP), Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Risk Communication and Community engagement (RCCE) for COVID and Priority Infectious diseases (Lassa fever, Monkey Pox). Firmly grounded in proven practices, Breakthrough ACTION works in partnership with governments, civil society, and communities around the world to implement creative and sustainable SBC programming, nurture SBC champions, mainstream new techniques, and technologies, and advocate strategic and sustained investment in SBC.