Project Driver – Burao, Somaliland

1. Brief introduction

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has been working in Somalia since 1964. As a service provider with worldwide operations in the fields of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, GIZ works with its partners to develop effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions. The goal of GIZ is to support the capacity development of people, organizations and institutional structures in the partner countries so as to enable them better their living conditions through their own efforts.

The German Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH RMO , supports the safe and effective implementation of GIZ projects across Somalia through a state-of-the-art security risk management system in order to minimize the risks faced by GIZ staff members and projects.

1. Responsibilities
   • Safe and responsible performing all official travel using official vehicles

• Regular 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

1. The driver performs the following tasks:
2. Driving

• Providing passenger transport in an official car for project staff, official visitors and guests

• Running errands for the project, e.g. sending letters and messages, paying bills and buying smaller quantities of office supplies; helping with transporting goods and completes the vehicle log correctly and conscientiously in accordance with GIZ standards

1. Service
   • Cleaning the interior and exterior of the vehicle(s) regularly

• Checking oil, water, brakes and brake liquid, tyre pressure, battery levels and the entire vehicle, monthly or every 5,000 km (whichever is first), headlights, brakes, bodywork for dents etc.

• Responsibility for the project vehicle documents and their good condition, keeping a vehicle log and recording monthly maintenance; calculates monthly petrol, oil and lubricant consumption and reports need for service and carries out minor repairs

• Immediately reporting all involvement of the project or office vehicle in accidents, including minor accidents, damage, loss or theft of vehicle fittings

• Close coordination with the risk management office, and adherence to risk management guidelines

1. Knowledge management

• Using all available information (including current radio news on traffic conditions) to update daily knowledge of road conditions, current passable routes/ locations, as well as security conditions prior to field trips, and sharing this information with other people in the office and other drivers