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  • Posted: Jul 18, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation...
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    Driver

    Main Purpose

    • Performing the tasks of transporting authorized goods and passengers in an MSF vehicle, ensuring its technical and safety conditions and respecting the country's traffic rules and MSF security rules, in order to provide a safe, smooth and efficient service

    Job Description

    • Checking daily, the technical conditions of the assigned vehicle (state of the tires, oil, fuel, brakes, radio equipment, spare parts, etc.), performing weekly checks according to the MSF Logbook, refilling it when necessary, and keeping it clean to ensure it can be driven in perfect conditions. Carry out handover if another needs to use the vehicle
    • Ensuring the security of passengers in the vehicle, driving carefully, observing speed limits and traffic rules in the country, as well as MSF security rules, to avoid car accidents.
    • Ensuring all passengers have all necessary papers in order before travelling and ensuring non-MSF staff sign disclaimers of responsibility before using the vehicle.
    • Ensuring correct loading and unloading of the vehicle, submitting the documents to the receiver of the goods, checking the status of delivered goods, returning the duly completed documents to Logistics and ensuring that the goods have the necessary documents
    • Ensure that all vehicle documents and the driver's driving license are valid and in the vehicle.
    • Informing the line manager of any incident involving the transportation of passengers and/or goods.
    • Knowing how to use all types of radios, codes, call numbers and radio alphabets by heart and communicating with the base according to MSF communications policy to inform the driver's position and any potential implications.
    • Knowing and respecting the security rules related to vehicle movements, specifically those related to customs, checkpoints and roadblocks. Ensuring all passengers know and respect the security rules

    Requirements
    Education: Essential Literacy and a driving License, Good knowledge of country roads

    Experience:

    • Essential: 2 years of minimum previous driving experience
    • Essential literacy and a driving license. Good knowledge of country roads
    • Desirable experience with specific vehicles to use (4x4)
    • Knowledge of Katsina roads
    • Vehicle mechanic experience is an added advantage
    • Desirable previous experience in MSF or other NGOs

    Language: Fluency in English is Essential, and any local languageis  desirable

    Knowledge:

    • Desirable knowledge of basic mechanics
    • Good knowledge of mission area roads.

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application (Cover Letter and updated CV) to: msff-nigeria-recruitment@paris.msf.org using "Driver- Katsina" as the subject of the mail. 

    Note

    • Application must include: Updated CV, Driver's license with applicant's contact details.
    • Qualified females are highly encouraged to apply.
    • Only successful applicants will be called for the next steps and are obligated to disclose any information about family member(s) currently in the employ of MSF-France in any location.
    • No monetary transactions, neither demands of favors in kind, nor other types of favoritism will be tolerated in the MSF recruitment process.
    • MSF reserves the right to refuse hiring a candidate having benefitted from any such acts. All illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.
    • MSF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages any Nigerian citizen to apply irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, political affiliation.
    • Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct and hence not acceptable.
    • MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage. MSF France takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their application.

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