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Logistics Assistant - Driver
About Kaizen
The Kaizen Company is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven, organizational, and institutional performance improvements and shift the development model into one that is bottom-up and ongoing. We leverage existing knowledge along with new technologies and innovative business models to support local reform that is sustained through market forces. Since our inception in 2004, we have supported over 60 education-focused organizations such as primary schools, government ministries, vocational training entities, universities, and education non-profit organizations worldwide.
Scope and Objectives
The Kaizen Company leads USAID/Jordan’s Enhancing School Management and Planning (ESMP) Project, which aims to improve the time and budget management as well as the overall quality of the school environment in Jordan by enhancing the planning, oversight, and operation and maintenance capabilities of the Ministries of Education (MOE) and Public Works and Housing (MPWH).
Kaizen is seeking a Logistics Assistant – Driver.
This position is located in Amman, Jordan.
Responsibilities
Logistics:
- Support financial activities such as procurement and other administrative tasks as the Finance and Operations Officer assigned.
- Support the project office by performing general service tasks, repairs, deliveries…etc.
- Welcome and direct all guests to the Project Office, monitor visitor entry and exit to program offices, maintain visitor records, and set appointments for project staff, as needed.
- Answer the phone and monitor office communications.
- Provide general office management services, responding to requests and preparing correspondence as required.
- Assist the Finance and Operations Officer in Preparing and filling any necessary documents.
Driver:
- Drive project vehicle as and when instructed by authorized project personnel.
- Keep detailed records of vehicle movements “Mileage Log” and maintenance performed.
- Identify and report any vehicle problems/defects to the relevant staff members immediately.
- Responsible for the general cleanliness of the vehicle; body, Interior…etc.
- Ensure loading and off-loading in and out of the Office and assigned vehicle.
- Ensure the assigned vehicle always carries essential tools and materials (e.g., spare tire, jack, belts, ropes, different types of spanners, etc.).
- Adhere to and respect Jordan's traffic rules, regulations, and project policies and procedures.
- Listen to traffic and weather reports staying up-to-date on road conditions.
- Adjust the route to avoid heavy traffic or road construction.
- Any other duties as assigned by the line manager.
- High school diploma.
- Knowledge of driving rules and regulations.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good in reading, writing and speaking English
- Excellent Navigational skills.
- Having a basic computer skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of company information
- Any other duties as assigned by the line manager.
At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment where everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.