Level: GS-2

Contract Type: Fixed-Term Appointment

Position Number: 00201770

Location: Ankara, Türkiye

Posting Start Date: 28 September 2023

Posting End Date: 12 October 2023

ONLY INDIVIDUALS WITH RESIDENCY AND RIGHT TO WORK IN TURKIYE MAY BE CONSIDERED AS ELIGIBLE FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION. IF YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN, KINDLY CONFIRM YOUR STATUS IN TURKIYE IN YOUR MOTIVATION STATEMENT.

Job Summary:

The Driver provides reliable and safe driving services to the Humanitarian Team in Turkiye, UNFPA Representative, Assistant Representative, high-ranking UN officials and visitors.

Providing reliable and safe driving services, you will uphold the highest standards of discretion and integrity; have a deep sense of responsibility, and excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues. You will demonstrate a client-oriented approach, courtesy, tact and ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds. 

How You Can Make a Difference:

UNFPA, Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency of the United Nations, is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education: 

• Completed Secondary Level Education.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Valid driver’s license.
• Three years’ work experience as a driver in an international organization, embassy or UN system with a safe driving record.
• Knowledge of driving rules and regulations, chauffeur protocol and courtesies, and local roads and conditions, and defensive driving skills.
• Skill in minor vehicle repairs.
• Certification in defensive driving is an asset.
• Additional working years as a driver is an asset.

Languages:

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Turkish is required

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UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy worklife balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity.