Driver | Hawassa

Climate-Sensitive Innovations in Land Management (CLM II)

End date of contract-6/30/2027

Duty station-Hawassa

As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development policy objectives. GIZ promotes reforms and change processes. In Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 50 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.

Since 2008, the Ethiopian government, particularly the Ministry of Agriculture, has spearheaded the Sustainable Land Management (SLM) initiative to combat land degradation and bolster agricultural output in Ethiopia’s highlands. This program seeks to restore natural ecosystems, enhance climate resilience, promote gender equality, and uplift community livelihoods through community empowerment and collaboration with both governmental and non-governmental entities.

GIZ has been instrumental in providing technical support to the SLM flagship program since its inception, operating at national, regional, and local level. The forthcoming phase, titled “Climate-Sensitive Innovations in Land Management” (CLM II), will span from July 2024 to June 2027. It will concentrate on strengthening the policy-making capabilities of SLM stakeholders in Integrated Landscape Management, offering policy and institutional guidance. The focus of CLM is on further developing the capacity of actors at all levels for the implementation of country wide Integrated landscape management, with a special focus on the implementation of bottom-up land use and management as well as digitalization, and the application of SLM in the Lake Chamo watershed.

Against this background, GIZ Ethiopia is recruiting a procurement and contract officer as outlined below:

Responsibilities

• Safely and responsibly performing all official travel using official vehicles;
• Regularly servicing and looking after official vehicles;
• Taking account of all available information on road conditions, accessible routes and locations;
• Running official errands and assisting with other office work.

Tasks

• Provides passenger transport with the GIZ vehicle for office, project or programme staff, official visitors and guests;
• Runs errands for the project, programme or office, e.g. sending letters and messages, paying bills and buying smaller quantities of office supplies;
• Completes the vehicle Digital logbook correctly and conscientiously following GIZ standards.
• Cleans the interior and exterior of the vehicle(s) regularly;
• Checks oil, water, brakes and brake liquid, tire pressure, battery levels and the entire vehicle, monthly or every 5,000 km (whichever is first), headlights, brakes, bodywork for dents etc.;
• Is responsible for the project vehicle documents and their good condition, keeping a vehicle DL and recording vehicle maintenance, fuel and other needed information;
• Immediately reports all involvement of the project or office vehicle in accidents, including minor accidents, damage, loss or theft of vehicle fittings.
• Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description.

Required Qualifications, Experiences, and Competencies

Qualifications

• Diploma in Automotive (Level III or IV)
• Valid 3rd-grade driving license or Auto Public 1.
• Defensive Driving Skills.

Experience.

• Minimum five years of working experience.
• Basic knowledge and experience of general mechanics.

Competencies.

• Basic knowledge of MS Office and skilled internet user
• English language and other regional languages are an advantage.
• Ability to pass a driving test (visual and practical).