Project Driver

Africa Health Collaborative Project of Addis Ababa University

Context

The Africa Health Collaborative (AHC) is a pioneering initiative aimed at strengthening primary healthcare across Africa and empowering the continent’s health sector through transformative education and innovation. It involves eight African Universities/Institutions (Amref International University (AMIU)-Kenya, Moi University Kenya, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Addis Ababa University (AAU), The African Leadership University (ALU) -Rwanda, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)- Ghana, University of Cape Town (UCT), and Asheis-Ghana), and University of Toronto (UofT), each in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. AAU has launched the Africa Health Collaborative Project at the College of Health Sciences (CHS). It is a 6-year project focusing on three pillars of work to achieve the AHC’s objectives:

• Health Employment (HEMP) aims at equipping the primary healthcare workforce in Ethiopia with relevant skills that productively match the health and well-being needs of the Ethiopian population.
• Health Entrepreneurship (HENT) aims at launching entrepreneurial ecosystems and platforms in Ethiopian Universities to optimizing and scaling health startup, creating jobs with a focus on youth and women, while addressing critical gaps in primary healthcare to accessibility, affordability, and quality.
• Health Ecosystem (HECO) aims at developing a dynamic and sustainable health ecosystem network that integrates local knowledge, supports policy development, and equips actors with the skills needed for sustainable health sector growth, transformation, and job creation across Africa.

The project wants to hire qualified and experienced staff on a contract basis for the following position.

II. Position/title: Project Driver

Employment status: Full-time Contract

Duration of Employment: 6- years; annually renewable contract depending of employee’s performance

Primary Work Location: Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences

Travel out of Addis Ababa: To National Partner Universities (Debre Berhan, Wollo, Wolkite Universities)

Department/Project: Africa Health Collaborative Project of AAU

Job Role: The Project Driver will manage project vehicle, including routine maintenance and registration; drive the project vehicle to transport authorized personnel and delivery or collect documents and other items to required destination, particularly within Addis Ababa and for field activities and project staff as appropriate; and perform other duties as assigned.

Objectives of the Assignment: The specific objectives of the Project Driver are ensuring vehicle maintenance in line with the Project standards; driving the project vehicle to transport authorized personnel and delivery or collect documents and other items to required destination within Addis Ababa and to local partner Universities; maintaining and renewing all required licenses and vehicle insurances, and perform minor repairs; ensuring that the vehicle is kept clean; maintaining trip movement records, logging official trips, daily mileages, fuel consumption, oil changes, greasing, etc. in the logbooks in line with the Project vehicle usage guidelines; inspect and report faulty vehicle equipment; provide logistics technical assistance as and when requested by the supervisor.

Available position: One (1).

Salary and benefits: Attractive- as per the Collaborative Project Scale

Education Requirements: Grade 12 completion Certificate

Minimum Experience Requirement: Five (5) years of experience as a Driver or Drivers’ Licensing Trainer after Grade 12 completion or having a Technical Vocational Certificate, or Diploma, or a Bachelor’s Degree.

Competency Requirements

Core competencies

• Constructively contribute and collaborate with all colleagues,
• Demonstrate compliance with all Government’s policies and procedures, and the projects’ rules and procedures,
• Actively demonstrate the project values (integrity, collaboration and action),
• Adhere to all health and safety policies and procedures of Ethiopian Driving License System and take all reasonable care that driving actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of others,
• Ability to work within the team and support other colleagues to achieve the overall project goals,
• Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform, and
• Ability to get things done before the deadline.

Functional competences

• Ability to identify and execute opportunities to improve operational efficiency,
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills,
• Good communication skills,
• Good coordination and organizational skills,
• Good timekeeper,
• High degree of integrity and confidentiality,
• Ability to work under pressure,
• A team player,
• Preparedness to undergo a police check,
• Availability to travel out of Addis Ababa to partner Universities,
• Preparedness to work flexible hours, and
• Ability working in cross-functional teams and provide actionable recommendations to emerging issues.