Driver

Job Title:

Driver

Job Location:

Gaziantep

Reporting to:

Supply Chain Officer

The application deadline is the 26 Nov 2024.

General Description of the Programme:

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, to alleviate suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, takes exceptional care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes creating safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for individuals' emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development by focusing on people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee-disabled people and identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. All activities, education, research, advocacy, etc., are carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

·       A driver is responsible for transporting either cargo or passenger from one location to another. They are responsible for the safe transit of the passengers or cargo. A few of the main duties of a driver are following traffic laws, correctly following the right route, ensure that there is enough fuel, and maintain a clean car interior. They also have to be very timely and know where they are going.

Duties, objectives, and competencies:

The driver is responsible for

·       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

The driver performs the following tasks:

·       provides passenger transport in an official car for office, project or program staff, official visitors, and guests

·       runs errands for the project, program or office, e.g., sending letters and messages, paying bills, and buying smaller quantities of office supplies

·       helps with transporting goods

·       completes the vehicle log correctly and conscientiously in accordance with 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 log, and recording monthly maintenance

·       calculates monthly petrol, oil, and lubricant consumption for the daily cash fund and for forwarding monthly vouchers to cost accounting

·       reports need for service and carry out minor repairs

·       immediately reports all involvement of the project or office vehicle in accidents, including minor accidents, damage, loss or theft of vehicle fittings

Requirements: Essential

·       secondary school education

·       holds a valid driver’s license

·       Professional experience

·       at least 2 year work experience as a driver with references

·       no major accidents in the past 3 years

·       advance Turkish language.

Requirements (desired)

·       humanitarian experience 2 year

·       Logistics experience is advance

·       Good communication skills.

·       Arabic language Low

·       English language Low

Technical Competencies:

• MS officer – Word and excel – Kobo

How to apply: Interested candidates may please send their resumes with the cover letter and fill out the application link.

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this ongoing commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a genuinely inclusive, effective, and representative organizational culture, encouraging employee equity and diversity, and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, etc., including various experiences and capabilities, helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, disability, or age.

Procedures

If needed, SENED will submit a work permit application for the selected candidate after the job offer is accepted. Failure to provide the required documents or rejection of a work permit application by the Government of Türkiye will result in rescinding the employment offer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENED’s work, we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, which may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.

SENED Organization does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. | SENED Kuruluşu işe alım sürecinin hiçbir adımında ücret talep etmemektedir.

SENED retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer a contract with a modified job description or for a different duration, or offer a contract at a lower grade.