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Driver to the RC

San Jose, Costa Rica

Job Info

Job Identification 22753

• Posting Date 12/11/2024, 03:40 PM
• Apply Before 12/17/2024, 04:59 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations San Jose, Costa Rica
• Agency Resident Coordinator Office
• Grade G3
• Vacancy Type Fixed Term
• Practice Area UN Coordination
• Bureau Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Contract Duration 1 Year with Possibility for extension
• Education & Work Experience High School certificates – 3 yr(s) expertise
• Other Criteria Valid driver’s license is required. Knowledge of driving rules, guidelines and legal guidelines in addition to expertise in minor automobile restore and upkeep.
• Required Languages Fluency in Spanish is required

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• Vacancy Timeline 1 Week
• Mobility required/no mobility no mobility required

Job Description

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core ideas at UNDP: we worth variety as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a means of making certain all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘go away nobody behind’ method to our variety efforts means growing illustration of underserved populations. People who establish as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring tales.

UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any type of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks.

La Oficina de PNUD Costa Rica en su compromiso intrínseco con la igualdad y la no discriminación, aspira a fortalecer una cultura organizacional pluralista, inclusiva, diversa, respetuosa de las diferencias y sin dejar a nadie atrás.

Por esto invita a participar en los procesos de contratación a personas indígenas, afrodescendientes, con discapacidad, migrantes, LGTBIQ+, entre otras personas, grupos y poblaciones históricamente excluidas. Especialmente se insta a las mujeres en esta diversidad a presentar sus postulaciones.

El PNUD rechaza la violencia contra las mujeres, el hostigamiento sexual y la explotación sexual en cualquiera de sus formas, así como el acoso, la discriminación y el abuso de autoridad, por lo que las personas colaboradoras deben mostrar un historial intachable al respecto y una conducta integra y basada en el respeto y la no discriminación.

Job Purpose and Organizational Context

On January 1st, 2019, the UN Secretary-General launched a world reform to improve the UN Development System’s effectiveness in attaining the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a part of this reform, UN Resident Coordinator Offices (RCOs), led by an empowered UN Resident Coordinator, assists international locations in assembly their improvement priorities and attaining the SDGs. Costa Rica has made notable progress, together with a literacy price of 98.03%, common main training, practically 100% renewable electrical energy, and a powerful financial restoration with GDP development charges of 4.6% in 2022 and 5.1% in 2023. The nation can be a frontrunner in environmental safety, with 30% of its land designated as protected areas and vital gender parity in training and legislature.

However, Costa Rica faces ongoing challenges, together with excessive earnings inequality, vital youngster and aged poverty, and vulnerability to local weather dangers, which value about 0.5% of GDP yearly. The UN’s 2023-2027 Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Costa Rica focuses on inclusion, good governance, shared prosperity, and resilience, with priorities similar to job creation, social safety, local weather motion, and human rights. While Costa Rica has made vital progress on the SDGs, pressing motion is required in areas like well being, agricultural funding, emissions discount, and addressing gender-based violence.

Under the steerage and supervision of the Head of Office and the Administrative Assistant, and in shut coordination the Resident Coordinator and their Executive Associate, the Driver offers dependable and secure driving companies to the RC and different UN officers and high-ranking guests making certain highest requirements of discretion and integrity, sense of duty, glorious data of protocol and safety points. The Driver additionally demonstrates a client-oriented method, courtesy, tact and talent to work with individuals of various nationwide and cultural backgrounds.

The Driver offers driving and sure administrative companies primarily to the Resident Coordinator but in addition, when potential, to the operations and program workers at the RCO, Consultants and Experts and UN workers on mission.

Duties and Responsibilities

1.) Provide dependable and secure driving companies utilizing workplace automobile predominantly to the Resident Coordinator and different UN officers and guests.

Transport Resident Coordinator or different UN guests or officers making use of acceptable protocols

• Deliver and accumulate mail and paperwork, and carry out different messenger duties.
• Meet official personnel and guests at the airport and help with visa and customs formality association when required.

2.) Ensure cost-saving by means of correct use and day-to-day upkeep of the assigned workplace automobile.

Maintain correct each day automobile logs

• Provide inputs to preparation of the automobile upkeep plans and reviews.
• Make well timed minor repairs and/or organize for main repairs
• Ensure well timed adjustments of oil, examine of tires, brakes, automotive washing, and so forth.

3.) Ensure availability in the assigned automobile of all the required paperwork, provides and obligatory spare components.

Keep present in automobile paperwork similar to automobile insurance coverage, automobile logs, workplace listing, and map of the metropolis/nation.

Ensure automobile first support equipment is satisfactorily stocked with customary medical provides.

4.) . Take all rapid actions required by guidelines, rules, and legal guidelines in case of involvement in accidents.

Ensure security, name emergency companies if wanted, report the accident, adjust to authorized obligations, observe up actions, and so forth.

5.) Perform different duties inside incumbent’s practical profile as assigned and deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the workplace and Organization

Additional duties could embrace aiding with pouch, procurement, workshops, make photocopies, scan paperwork, request quotations, assist belongings stock evaluation, and different administrative duties.

Performs different duties as required by supervisor.

Competencies

Core :

Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and displays personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline.

Think Innovatively:LEVEL 1: Open to artistic concepts/identified dangers, is pragmatic downside solver, makes enhancements.

Learn Continuously:LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions.

Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile.

Act with Determination :LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, ready to ship calmly in face of adversity, assured

Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in direction of others, varieties constructive relationships.

Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciates/respects variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confronts discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Administration & Operations/Vehicle administration:

Knowledge of coverage & procedures on fleet administration

Administration & Operations/ Registry & correspondence administration:

Ability to accumulate, register, keep and ship mail and UNDP pouch; skill to handle archives

Business Management /Communication:

Ability to talk in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each by means of written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers.

Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by means of media, social media and different acceptable channels

Ethics/ UN Policy data – Ethics:

Knowledge and understanding of the UN Staff Regulations and Rules and different insurance policies relating to ethics and integrity.

Business Development/Knowledge Generation:

Ability to analysis info and to flip it into helpful data, related for context, or responsive to a said want. Ability to apply present ideas to new conditions, and to develop new ideas to generate workable options and new approaches. Knowledge of related ideas, conceptual fashions, and theories that may be helpful in addressing new conditions.

Business Development /UNDP Representation:

Effectively characterize and advocate for UN, its values, mission, work, and positions with numerous constituencies/audiences, shares UN data and actions.

Business Management /Customer Satisfaction/Client Management:

Ability to reply well timed and appropriately with a way of urgency, present constant options, and ship well timed and high quality outcomes and/or options to fulfil and perceive the actual prospects’ wants.

• Provide inputs to the improvement of customer support technique.
• Look for methods to add worth past purchasers’ rapid requests.
• Ability to anticipate consumer’s upcoming wants and issues.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Secondary Education with a sound driver’s license is required.

Experience:

Minimum of three years (with secondary training) of related work expertise as a driver with a secure driving file is required.

• Knowledge of driving rules, guidelines and legal guidelines in addition to expertise in minor automobile restore and upkeep.
• Experience in the primary use of computer systems and related workplace software program packages (MS Word, Excel, and so forth.) and talent to use web-based administration and digital log, file and/or scheduling programs.
• Knowledge of protocols and safety necessities is fascinating.
• Experience working in the UN System or worldwide group is an asset.
• Experience offering driving companies to high-level people is very fascinating.
• Having coaching or programs on matters of gender equality, safety, prevention of exploitation and/or sexual abuse is fascinating.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in Spanish is required.

Please word that continuance of appointment past the preliminary 12 months is contingent upon the profitable completion of a probationary interval.

Disclaimer

Important info for US Permanent Residents (‘Green Card’ holders)

Under US immigration legislation, acceptance of a workers place with UNDP, a world group, could have vital implications for US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises candidates for all skilled stage posts that they need to relinquish their US Permanent Resident standing and settle for a G-4 visa, or have submitted a sound software for US citizenship prior to graduation of employment.

UNDP will not be able to present recommendation or help on making use of for US citizenship and due to this fact candidates are suggested to search the recommendation of competent immigration legal professionals relating to any purposes.

Applicant details about UNDP rosters

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Non-discrimination

UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and ideas.

UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate primarily based on race, intercourse, gender id, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing.

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