Driver (Nukus)

The Aral Sea region remains the most vulnerable and deprived region of Uzbekistan. Once the fourth largest inland lake in the world now down to 10% of its original size, the drying of Aral Sea set off large-scale human, environmental, socio-economic and demographic problems in the affected areas.

In the context of UN’s support to the Government of Uzbekistan’s efforts to tackle the negative consequences of the Aral Sea crisis, with the financial support of the Government of Japan, UNDP and UNFPA Joint Programme “Building the Resilience of Local Communities Against Health, Environmental and Economic Insecurities in the Aral Sea Region” is launched, which will be implemented in Karakalpakstan throughout 2020-2021. The Joint Programme aims to address the most urgent and immediate health and economic insecurities in the most vulnerable areas of the Aral Sea region through bringing innovative solutions to healthcare and poverty reduction initiatives.

The programme will have two major objectives as follows:

• Improving the quality of health care services, particularly in remote rural areas through strengthening the technical and institutional capacity of local healthcare system for maternal, child and reproductive health service provision with the focus on prevention of ill health (breast and cervical cancer, sexually transmitted infections, malnutrition, etc.) and promotion of healthy lifestyle and positive health seeking behavior involving also the Community Health Volunteers.
• Enhancing income generation opportunities of the affected population through inclusive business initiatives, promotion of investments for job creation, as well as through improving access to basic services. The programme will select most vulnerable rural communities and help them with participatory decentralized planning and rehabilitation of essential public services such as water supply.  It will support the start-up of agricultural cooperatives and small rural businesses through trainings, funding innovative schemes, establishing pilot “farm field schools”. These will help people, especially women led households to use available resources, mainly land and water in the most efficient way and generate incomes to sustain their livelihoods.

With the purpose of fostering envisioned activities within the project, it is planned to recruit the Driver to provide necessary logistic support to the project activities in Karakalpakstan. The Driver as a part of project staff will be responsible for providing transport services to the office staff in timely and secure manner.

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager, the incumbent provides transportation services to project staff ensuring high quality, accuracy and consistency of work.

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager and in close coordination with the project AFA, the Driver will be responsible for the following:

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional Competencies:

• Good communications and interpersonal skills;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to quick learning;
• Ability to organize and complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities;
• Ability to handle a large volume of work possibly under time constraints;
• Responds positively to feedback and different viewpoints.

Core competencies:

• Demonstrating ethics and integrity;
• Self-development, initiative and reasonable risk taking;
• Acting as a team player and facilitating teamwork

Education:

• Secondary education

Experience:

• At least 2 year of relevant work experience;
• Possessing valid driving license category “B and C”;
• Knowledge of driving rules, regulations and safe-driving records;
• Skills in minor vehicle repair;
• Knowledge and good orientation on the districts of Karakalpakstan;
• Availability of a third party liability insurance is a must.

Language Requirements:

• Proficiency in Karakalpak/Uzbek, knowledge of Russian and English is an asset.

Others:

• Honesty, responsiveness, punctuality;
• Client-orientation, ability to work in a team.
• Ability to work under pressure, ethics and honesty;
• Good communication skills;
• Good knowledge of traffic rules and regulations;
• Technical and mechanical expertise to perform small repairs of the vehicle

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All posts in the SC categories are subject to local recruitment.

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