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Driver

International Medical Corps
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Position Title: Driver

2024-10-05        Nangarhar       Full Time        1313

Job Location: Nangarhar
Nationality: National
Category: Support
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: As Per IMC Salary Scale
Vacancy Number: IMC-JLD-HRD-0121
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Jalalabad
Organization: International Medical Corps
Years of Experience: 2-3 Years
Contract Duration: Project Base
Gender: Male
Education: Graduate from 12th class and diploma is preferable.
Close date: 2024-10-05

About International Medical Corps:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, the International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are 

Job Descriptions:

Job Purpose

The position’s purpose is to ensure IMC vehicles are properly maintained, secured, and monitored, while ensuring staff safety when traveling in the fields.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

  • Ensuring vehicle maintained including proper maintenance and lubrication.
  • Driving IMC staff in Afghanistan as authorized by the transport officer or his, her designee.
  • Ensuring the vehicle is used for IMC official purpose only.
  • Safeguarding the vehicle and its equipment, ensuring, that only authorized persons are using the vehicle and its equipment.
  • Proper maintenance, lubrication, and usage of the assigned driving equipment
  • Maintain logbook daily.
  • Ensuring the vehicle is cleaned, serviced regularly.
  • Interpreting for IMC staff as requested
  • Primary responsibility for airport pickup/drop-off for all expat/National staff
  • Primary responsibility for moving expats around town.
  • Training other drivers in:
  • Familiar WITH AHF and VHF Radio and procedures.
  • Familiarization of locations (Ministries, restaurants, guesthouses. Etc).
  • Proper completion of records, maintenance, logbooks.
  • Security driving around checkpoints convoys, police military
  • Other topics as assigned.

General:

  • Ensure the safety and security of all international and National staff.
  • Informing the security in charge for all staff movements around the city.
  • Will be stand by security international staff during his/her visit out of the IMC
  • informing the transport officer of all works and damages to vehicles
  • ensuring that all vehicles are equipped with seatbelts and that the are worn by passengers and driver while traveling
  • Driving the IMC vehicle with proper care and courtesy, observing all local traffic rules and regulations
  • Informing passengers to fill the logbook properly includes registering starting point of travel KM and stop point of travel KM with dates, signature, purpose of travel and other information required in logbook.
  • Ensuring the vehicle is kept refueled on regular basis.
  • Ensuring that the necessary papers including registration and first Aid Kits are kept with the car and kept up to date time to time by
  • To make oneself fully understand for vehicle and vehicle travel guideline.
  • Make sure to be completely equipped with chain, water sleeping bags, extra spare tire, and other necessary equipment’s during winter especially,
  • Avoid breakneck speed driving which totally against IMC rules.
  • Bear IMC driving permit license as well local valid license.
  • Keeping the vehicle clean all the time.

Reporting structure:

  • The driver/interpreter reports to the Transport/inventory and prepares a daily Logbook of the vehicle use and fuel.

Physical Demands:

  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Work environment:

  • The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this.

Things to avoid:

•            No CD or video playing during the driving time.

•            No loud or rude noise inside the vehicle, especially with expat

•            always stay inside the vehicle whenever you’re out of the office.

The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily inclusive in size. You may be required to travel to other parts of the country if required.

Organizational Responsibilities

Policy Adherence:

  • Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

  • Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

  • Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity

Safeguarding:

  • It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Job Requirements:

Qualifications

Essential:

Graduate from 12th class and diploma is preferable.

Experience

  • At least 2-3 years post-qualification experience within an INGO or UN organizations.
  • Able to communicate in Dari, Pashto, interpret in English.
  • The driver/interpreter will have the following skills and experience:
  • A general knowledge of Afghanistan’s traffic rules and regulations
  • Possess a valid driving license.
  • Good teamwork skills
  • A willingness to learn new skills.

Competency

  • Ability to effectively present information to the immediate supervisors (Transport and Security)
  • Able to work overtime on weekends or holidays required by the supervisor or programmatic needs.
  • Ability to undertake extensive field trip in Afghanistan.

Submission Guidelines:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to the International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

  • IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
  • IMC will conduct its recruitment based on need only.
  • Only the HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
  • IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidates and might propose you other positions than the one you applied for based on your qualifications.
  • Only short-listed candidates whose application meets the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

To apply for this vacancy, please use the following link:

https://forms.gle/ShysnB4Ky3JAo2c57

If the link above does not work by clicking on it, please copy and paste it in the browser address bar.

Make sure that you have Entered All Education, Work Experiences Details Completely, Accurate & at the end of the application you press Submit.

Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Submission Email:

Refer to submission Guidelines.

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