Description
Responsible for driving staff or other assigned persons or cargo to defined destinations in a professional, efficient, safe and timely manner. Maintaining assigned vehicles in excellent hygienic and mechanical conditions, ensuring proper documentation pertaining to the vehicle

Key duties & responsibilities
Objective 1: Transporting safely persons or goods
• Transport safely Action Against Hunger employees or freight according to the planning or according to the directives of the Capital logistician and /or Base Logistician where support is being given.
• Be in possession of all necessary individual documentation (driving license, passport, and order of mission) and vehicle documentation.
• Check the validity of the documentation.
• Report any accident immediately to the nearest police station for the purpose of insurance claims, and to the logistics department.
• Respect the Ugandan traffic regulations and rules.
• Adjust the speed to the road and risk conditions, in particular the speed mustn’t exceed 40 km/h in villages or populated areas.
• Respect Action Against Hunger Standard Operating Procedures for vehicles.
• Respect the manufacturer technical conditions of use for the vehicle
• Radio must be permanently “on” and regular contact must be made with the Radio Operator.
• Stop the car before answering to the radio and/or mobile phone or reduce speed to 30 km/hour when security conditions do not permit stoppage.

Objective 2 Maintenance and check list for field trips
• Perform the daily vehicle pre departure checklist mentioned in the logbook or in the driver briefing
• Clean the vehicle inside and outside when necessary and as per Action Against Hunger guidelines.
• Conscientiously reports information on the logbook and fuel logbook
• Check that the items mentioned in the logbook are in the vehicle when leaving.
• When a field departure is forecasted, the driver has to inspect and prepare the vehicle the day before leaving and be ready for the scheduled departure time.
• The driver has to prepare additional materials according to the mission needs (additional fuel tank, stickers, flag, tools, medical and food kits, etc.)
• When not driving, the driver mechanic must fulfill the duties and tasks as per objectives 3, 4, 5 and 6:

3) Tyres
• Checks for correct tyre pressure
• Rotates tyres every 10,000 Km or after maximum 9 months depending on the status.
• Ensures that wheel alignment and wheel balancing is checked regularly (at each tyre change).

4) Repairs
• Performs general repairs (transmission, clutches, suspension ;…) on ACF vehicles, motorcycles.
• Travels to the field with the appropriate tool kit for regular maintenances and in case of breakdowns /carries out basic repairs that enables getting the vehicle back to acceptable working condition.

Requirements
• A qualification in Motor vehicle Mechanics & Driving and training in Defensive Driving.
• At least 3 years’ experience
• A valid driving permit
• Language skills: English (and relevant local language) fluent
• Ability to work and contribute positively in a team.
• Commitment to Action Against Hunger’s work and values.
• Willingness to adhere to Action Against Hunger’s policies on safeguarding.