Job Vacancy: Driver to the Head of Office, UNDP Abuja

Job Vacancy Specifications

• Job Identification: 17087
• Location: Abuja, Nigeria
• Posting Date: 19/03/2024, 12:16 PM
• Apply Before: 03/04/2024, 04:59 AM
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Agency: UNDP
• Grade: G3
• Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
• Practice Area: Effectiveness
• Bureau: Regional Bureau for Africa
• Contract Duration: 1 Year with Possibility for extension
• Education & Work Experience: High School certificate – 3 year(s) experience
• Vacancy Timeline: 2 Weeks

About the Organization

About UNDP

As the United Nations lead agency on international development, UNDP works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated in three focus areas; sustainable development, democratic governance and peace building, and climate and disaster resilience. Learn more

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP:  we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Job Description

Under the guidance and supervision of the Logistics Associate, the Driver will provide reliable and safe driving services ensuring to UNDP RR and other high-ranking UN Officials and visitors ensuring highest standards of discretion and integrity, high sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues. The Driver will demonstrate a client-oriented approach, courtesy, tact and the ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds. 

Upon request for the supervisor, the driver can also be required to provide driving services to the Operations and Programme staff in the CO, consultants and experts and UN staff on mission.

The Driver will provide reliable and safe driving services ensuring to UNDP RR and other high-ranking UN Officials and visitors ensuring highest standards of discretion and integrity, high sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

• Provision of reliable and secure driving services
• Proper use of vehicle
• Day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle
• Availability of documents/ supplies

Ensures provision of reliable and secure driving services by;

 a) driving office vehicles for the transport of authorized personnel and delivery and collection of mail, documents and other items and 

b) meeting official personnel and visitors at the airport, visa and customs formalities arrangement when required.

Ensures cost-savings through proper use of vehicle through accurate maintenance of daily vehicle logs, provision of inputs to preparation of the vehicle maintenance plans and reports.

Ensures proper day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle through timely minor repairs, arrangements for major repairs, timely changes of oil, check of tires, brakes, car washing, etc. 

Ensures availability of all the required documents/supplies including vehicle insurance, vehicle logs, office directory, and map of the city/country, first aid kit, and necessary spare parts.

Ensures that all immediate actions required by rules and regulations are taken in case of involvement in accidents.

Support hospitality and orientation support of personnel and other individual, especially of new staff and visitors and guests of the Project Support Unit and the Country Office, as required.

Support the project team by providing administrative and clerical support as requested, including in preparing, copying, collating, binding, filing and distributing documents, mail and notifications, as requested.

Provide logistical and administrative support during events and meetings, as required.

Provide any other clerical support to the office as may be required.

Competencies

Expected Demonstration of Competencies
Core
Achieve Results:	LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively:	LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously	LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility	LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination	LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner	LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion	LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Requirements

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area	Name	Definition
Business Management	Customer Satisfaction/Client Management	•Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers’ needs. •Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. •Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. •Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
Business Management	Operations Management	•Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner. • Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms
Business Direction & Strategy	Entrepreneurial Thinking	•  Ability to create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and    partners and to develop service offers responding to client needs based on    UNDP’s organizational priorities and mandate
Business Management	Resource Management	• Ability to allocate and use resources in a strategic or tactical way in line with principles of accountability and integrity
Business Management	Digital Awareness and Literacy	•Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed
Business Direction & Strategy	Negotiation and Influence	• Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates ‘win-win’ situations.
Business Development	Integration within the UN	•  Ability to identity, and integrate  capacity and assets of the UN system, and    engage in joint work; knowledge of the UN System and ability to apply this    knowledge to strategic and/or practical situations.

Education:

Secondary Education. Valid Driver’s license. 

Experience:

• 3 years’ work experience as a driver;
• Safe driving record; 
• Knowledge of driving rules and regulations and skills in minor vehicle repair.

Language;

Fluency in English, knowledge of Local language of the duty station. 

QUALIFIED FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY*

Method of Application

Deadline:

Apply Before: 03/04/2024, 04:59 AM

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