Driver
• CDD
• Dakar, Senegal
• ONG et Ambassades
• Transport - Logistique

AKADEMIYA2063
• Title: Driver
• Position #: SN22-NR-008
• Location: Dakar, Senegal
• Duration: 2 years renewable

Position summary
AKADEMIYA2063 is an African non-profit research organization with headquarters in Kigali, Rwanda and a regional office in Dakar, Senegal. AKADEMIYA2063 aspires to create, across Africa and led from Rwanda, state-of-the art technical capacities to support the efforts by the Member States of the African Union to achieve the key goals of the agenda 2063 of transforming national economies to boost growth and prosperity. The main goal of AKADEMIYA2063 is to help meet the needs of African countries in terms of data, analytics, and mutual learning for the effective implementation of Agenda 2063 and the realization of its outcomes by a critical mass of member states.

AKADEMIYA2063 seeks to recruit a Driver/Logistics Assistant (DLA) for its West and Central Africa Regional Office. The DLA is responsible for providing driving and administrative duties to assigned staff/guests of AKADEMIYA2063. S/he ensures highest standards of discretion and integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol, communications, and security issues. The DLA will also demonstrate a client-oriented approach, courtesy, tact, and ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds. S/he monitors the movement of personnel and deliveries and oversees the maintenance of the office vehicles. S/he assists in delivering a quality service through translation, logistics support, and team assistance as required Interested applicants must already have the proper authorization to work in Senegal.

Duties and responsibilities
• Coordinating the movement of personnel and office deliveries.
• Relaying information concerning security of road routes and sites to be visited.
• Transporting staff to various destinations as per schedule.
• Airport collection of visitors, pickup and drop off, as directed.
• Collecting and delivering mail at the Post Office and other offices.
• Registering, delivering letters and cheques to collaborators, suppliers/service providers as required.
• Assisting the team in the delivery of purchase orders and purchases for minor petty cash office expenditure.
• Collecting cash/bank statements/bankers’ cheques from the bank when required.
• Deposits/collects cheques from the bank.
• Delivering vehicles for servicing /repairs and check that they are in satisfactory condition.
• Repairing vehicles when they have minor break downs and delivering them to the garage for major repairs.
• Preparing accident and incident reports as necessary and ensure that immediate steps as required by rules and regulations are taken in case of involvement in an accident.
• Performs daily vehicle inspections and fill out inspection forms; ensure that the vehicle is kept clean.
• Maintaining register for monitoring and maintenance of vehicles.
• Documenting the vehicle movement logbook and summarizing information into a monthly report on movement of vehicles and fuel consumption.
• Any other duties as assigned or required.

Qualifications
• Minimum 5 years’ accident-free driving experience preferably in an international organization.
• Minimum 12 years of education.
• Clean driving license and good track record.
• Good command of French and English.
• Basic knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, data entry, and email software.
• High level of integrity.
• Positive attitude, courteous and strong service orientation.

Application details
If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed e-mail application: CV and cover letter in English, by January 24, 2022, to email address. Please include the position title in the subject line.

We thank all applicants for their interest in working for AKADEMIYA2063. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the available position. AKADEMIYA2063 reserves the right to change, revise, omit, and add in part / in whole this document

AKADEMIYA2063 is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified women are encouraged to apply.