Yellow Plate Driver

Yellow Plate Driver (Re-advertised)

Médecins Sans Frontières “Doctors without Borders” is a private, on-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation.

The French section of Médecins Sans Frontières is currently seeking to hire aYellow Plate Driver

Workplace                      :   Main Office is in Nablus with movements around northern Cities of West Bank (mainly Qalqiliya, Tubas and Jordan Valley) in addition to  movements to Jerusalem.  

Type of contract           :   Fixed term contract 3 months (renewable according to the need)

Activity rate                   :   Full time

Wished start date        :  As soon as possible

Main Responsibilities of the position:

• Checking daily, the technical conditions of the assigned vehicle and performing weekly check according to the MSF Logbook.
• Perform refueling as necessary or when scheduled.
• Keeping MSF cars clean, ensuring they can be driven in clean and respectable condition.
• Carrying out a handover if another uses the vehicle.
• Ensuring the security of passengers in the vehicle, driving carefully, observing speed limits and traffic rules as well as MSF security rules.
• Ensuring all passengers have all the necessary papers in order before travelling and ensuring non-MSF staff sign disclaimers of responsibility before travelling in the vehicle.
• Performing correct loading and unloading of goods transported in the vehicle, submitting the documents to the receiver of the goods, checking the status of delivered goods, returning the duly completed documents to Logistics Department.
• Ensuring 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 operate the provided communication devices (phone, radio, etc). Understanding any codes, call signs and phonetic alphabet and communicating with base according to MSF communications policy to inform the driver's position, movement status or security concern.
• 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.

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Requirements

• Education: Essential literacy.
• Experience: Minimum of 2 years work experience in a similar role, desirable previous experience with MSF or other NGO’s, good knowledge of West Bank and Jerusalem roads.
• Languages: Arabic is mandatory , English is desirable and Hebrew is an advantage
• A valid Israeli driver’s license is required with a good driving record
• Knowledge of traffic laws and regulations in both West Bank and Jerusalem is required
• The main operations center is the city of Nablus. The driver begins his daily work from Nablus towards the work areas mentioned above.

To apply for this vacancy, please send your CV with a cover letter, copy of valid driving License and work certificates to: [email protected] , stating the job title in the subject line ‘’ Yellow plate driver’’.

Deadline to receive applications: Monday 22nd  April 2024 at 14:00 pm.
Only complete applications in English will be taken into consideration.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.