HEAD OF DRIVERS

Accountabilities

• Transporting MSF personnel and material ensuring their safety.
• Supervising the team of drivers and monitoring and evaluating their performance, ensuring compliance with all rules, safety regulations and MSF instructions, as well as the maintenance and service of their assigned vehicles which includes preparing and overseeing the drivers' work schedule, ensuring daily, weekly and monthly checks of vehicles and the correct filling in of administration and vehicle logbook.
• Performing monthly checks of the vehicle inventory, documentation and first aid kit together with the responsible driver and conducting a driving test for all new drivers. Performing regular drivers' assessments.
• Coordinating and supervising the associated resources (drivers) and fleet management to ensure adequate service in terms of organizing availability of drivers, vehicles to drive, duty rosters and replacements in case of absence, and fuel control. Organizing training courses for drivers
• Checking and ensuring that safety procedures are met in vehicles to ensure that transportation is in the best conditions of safety for travelers.
• Reporting any problems with the vehicles (mechanical, accidents...) to the line manager / technical referent as well as preparing monthly reports on services, spare parts, consumption, etc. of each vehicle.
• Ensuring maintenance on the fleet of vehicles to be in perfect working order and that cars are serviced at the desired time to ensure good use of it and be able to deliver services.
• Looking after all equipment related to vehicles and driver.
• Calculate and track fuel consumption of the vehicles.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• The Head of Drivers will be responsible for fleet management of four cars and one ambulance for the South Beirut project (which includes two Palestinian Refugee camps: Borj El Barajneh and Shatila, in addition to a birth center in RHUH and a warehouse in Sin El-Fil).
• The Head of Drivers must be able to prioritize competing demands while ensuring a fair distribution of workloads among all drivers.
• Palestinian Refugee Camps do not fall under the system of the Lebanese government, Palestinian factions are the main authorities in the camp. The Head of Drivers must be willing to work in an environment such as this.