Senior Driver

Background UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks. UNDP Pakistan works with the Government and communities to develop and implement local solutions to development challenges. In an evolving development context, UNDP supports the efforts of Government of Pakistan to build a more equitable, prosperous, peaceful and resilient society, and to achieve its SDGs and COP25 targets.

Under the guidance and supervision of the Administrative Assistant, the Senior Driver will provide reliable and safe driving services ensuring to UNDP and other high-ranking UN Officials and visitors ensuring highest standards of discretion and integrity, high sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues. The Senior Driver will demonstrate a client-oriented approach, courtesy, tact, and the ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Upon request from the supervisor, the Senior Driver can also be required to provide driving services to the Operations and Programme staff in the CO, consultants and experts and UN staff on mission. Duties and Responsibilities The Senior Driver will provide reliable and safe driving services ensuring to UNDP RCO and other high-ranking UN Officials and visitors ensuring the highest standards of discretion and integrity, a high sense of responsibility, and excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues.

1. Provision of reliable and secure driving services focusing on the following:

Driving office vehicles for the transport of UNDP, other high-ranking officials, visitors and other authorized personnel and delivery and collection of mail, documents and other items.

Meeting official personnel and visitors at the airport, visa and customs formalities arrangement when required.

Ensures that all immediate actions required by rules and regulations are taken in case of involvement in accidents.

To perform the dispatching of drivers for different duties/ field missions as and when required and as informed by Motor pool Focal Person.

To attempt all the assigned mandatory courses.

To perform any other related function as and when required.

2. Proper use of vehicle focusing on the following :

Ensures cost-savings through proper use of vehicle through accurate maintenance of daily vehicle logs, provision of inputs to preparation of the vehicle maintenance plans and reports

Ensure to charge the cost recovery to UN Agencies, and Projects.

3.   Day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle focusing on the following:

Through timely minor repairs, arrangements for major repairs, timely changes of oil, check of tires, brakes, car washing, etc.

Proper usage of VMS – Vehicle Management System. Preparation of Work Order, invoices

Proper working on quotation from vendors for repairing and maintenance work.

4. Availability of documents/supplies focusing on the following;

Ensures availability of all the required documents/supplies including vehicle insurance, vehicle logs, office directory, and map of the city/country, first aid kit, and necessary spare parts.

Core Competencies

Achieve Results:  LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.

Think Innovatively:  LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements.

Learn Continuously:  LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.

Adapt with Agility:  LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible .

Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.

Engage and Partner:  LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:  LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination .

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Customer Satisfaction/Client Management: 

Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs.

Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy.

Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests.

Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

Operations Management: 

Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization's business processes to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.

Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms.

Entrepreneurial Thinking:

Ability to create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and partners and to develop service offers responding to client needs based on

UNDP's organizational priorities and mandate.

Resource Management:

Ability to allocate and use resources in a strategic or tactical way in line with principles of accountability and integrity.

Digital Awareness and Literacy:

Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skillfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed.

Negotiation and Influence: 

Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates 'win-win' situations.

Integration within the UN: 

Ability to identity, and integrate capacity and assets of the UN system, and engage in joint work; knowledge of the UN System and ability to apply this knowledge to strategic and/or practical situations.

Required Skills and Experience Education:

High School Education (12 Grade)

Experience:

Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience is required

Experience with Head of Agency/organization/Project as a driver is desired

UN Experience would be an asset.

Safe driving record.

Knowledge of driving rules and regulations and skills in minor vehicle repair.

Armored vehicle training and certification an asset

Defensive Training for Road Safety and Awareness

SSAFE Training

Valid Driver’s license is required.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

Fluency in English, knowledge of the local language of the duty station.

UNDP Provides equal opportunity to all qualified female and male including the physically challenged candidates.

Please make sure to fill all the sections in the application form properly and the information provided should be complete and updated before submission of application form.

“I ncomplete applications will not be considered for the next phase of recruitment and will be disqualified”

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