KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the deadliest infectious disease in the world. KNCV is an international center of expertise for TB control that promotes effective, efficient, innovative and sustainable TB control strategies in a national and international context. We are an organization of passionate TB professionals, including doctors, researchers, training experts, nurses and epidemiologists. We aim to stop the spread of the worldwide epidemic of TB and to prevent the further spread of drug-resistant TB.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Project Driver
Vacancy Number: KN081
Location: Abuja
The USAID Funded COVID-19 Vaccination Acceleration Project (1 Year)
- This project seeks to promote COVID-19 vaccine access, acceptability, and uptake, while strengthening adverse drug reaction feedback and timely response, by leveraging on the ongoing USAID-supported TB LON 1 & 2 project structures.
- This project has the primary objective of accelerating widespread and equitable access to and delivery of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccination to unvaccinated individuals at community and facility level in the seven selected USAID TB LON supported states (Anambra, Bauchi, Taraba, Cross River, Kano, Imo & Kaduna) in Nigeria, by supporting the NPHCDA’s SCALES Strategy.
Job Description
- The Project Driver is expected to support project logistics. The Project Driver is responsible for ensuring the safe logistics of staff and project commodities.
- Hierarchically, the Project Driver reports to the Central Project Coordinator.
Purpose of the position
- The driver is expected to support project logistics.
Responsibilities
As a Project Driver you will:
- Convey project staff to their destinations within/outside the primary project location.
- Daily inspection of the vehicle.
- Always keep the vehicle clean.
- Keep a logbook.
- Register fuel purchase and consumption in the logbook and on purchase receipts.
- Maintain office vehicle and report to the Central Coordinator.
- Submit a monthly car maintenance report to the Admin Manager.
- Update vehicle particulars.
- Collect/drop visitors from/at the airport.
- Ensure the safety of office staff/consultants (and persons traveling for and on behalf of KNCV) while traveling with the official vehicle.
- Perform other additional duties as assigned
Who are we looking for?
Education:
- A minimum of WAEC holder.
Knowledge / Experience:
- At least 3 years of experience in a similar job
- Good organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and communication skills
- Must be patient, meticulous, and have a logical mind
- Capable of working well under pressure
- Must be flexible with absolute integrity, organizational awareness, and understanding of cultural differences.
What do we offer?
- A full-time (40 hours per week) fixed-term contract for a year, with the intention of extending the contract depending on funding and performance.
- An informal work atmosphere in an international environment where initiative is appreciated.
- A highly motivated team of experienced, self-driven colleagues.
- The salary is dependent upon education and relevant working experience.
- KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation has its own Employment Conditions Scheme.
Application Closing Date
Wednesday; 21st December, 2022.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title, Location and Vacancy Number as the subject of the email.
Note
- Candidates should also use the Job Title, Location, and Vacancy Number as wriiten above as the subject heading of their Motivation Letter, as well as submit 3 professional referees.
- Applications sent by any other means or delivered to other addresses will not be considered under this application.
- We only consider applications that are received through the KNCV TB Foundation Nigeria recruitment email.
