Project Background:

Caritas is currently implementing a rights-based protection initiative across Makurdi, Guma, Gwer West, Kwande, and Logo LGAs to safeguard displaced populations facing critical risks. Through regular monitoring of IDPs in camps and host communities, the project identifies protection concerns, service gaps, and emerging trends, ensuring timely referrals for survivors of GBV, children at risk, and individuals subjected to unlawful detention. A strong legal aid component provides counselling, support for reporting crimes, resolving disputes, and detention monitoring in collaboration with law enforcement. At the community level, Caritas engages peace committees, women’s and youth groups to strengthen reporting and referral pathways, while awareness campaigns promote rights education and safe complaint mechanisms. To ensure accountability, feedback systems are actively reinforced, enabling communities to report concerns and shape service delivery. Insights gathered continuously inform monitoring, legal programming, and advocacy, making this an adaptive and responsive protection project.

Job Summary:

The Fleet Assistant shall provide various transportation services, the nature of which is as assigned by the Fleet Manager, Admin Officer or designate. They transport products, materials, equipment and staff to and from specified locations. The incumbent’s responsibilities include timely or scheduled drop off and pick up of staff, collection of packages and maintaining a travel log to record work hours, travel-time and locations traveled to. They shall also be able to perform routine checks on the company vehicle. To be successful in this role, the Fleet assistant shall ensure that all transportation duties are carried out in a timely manner. Ultimately, it is expected that they shall be able to ensure that and other transportation details are correct before undertaking any pick-up or drop-off duties.

Key Areas of Accountability:

• Safely transporting company staff as well as various products and materials to and from specified locations in a timely manner.
• Assisting with the loading and offloading of staff luggage, products, and materials.
• Adjusting travel routes to avoid traffic congestion or road construction.
• Promptly informing the Organization of any tickets issued against the company vehicle during work hours.
• Ensuring that the company vehicle is always parked in areas that permit parking in order to avoid towing.
• Keeping the company vehicle clean and properly maintained by performing regular washing, cleaning and vehicle maintenance.
• Providing accurate time records of the company vehicle’s coming and goings.
• Reporting any accidents, injuries, and vehicle damage to management.

Additional Responsibilities:

The Responsibilities (Above) are not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee will also perform other related tasks as required and will be responsible for reporting and communicating progress and achievement of the specific assigned tasks.

Qualification and Experience:

Interested applicants must have:

• Minimum of a Senior Secondary School Certificate SSCE is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in a project environment.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Clean driving record.
• Sound knowledge of road safety regulations.
• Working knowledge of local roads and routes around project locations.
• The ability to utilize maps, GPS systems, and car manuals.
• Effective communication skills.
• Punctual and reliable.
• Good communication and reporting skills including proficiency in both written and spoken English.
• Experience of dealing with difficult and sensitive situations in a professional manner.
• Ability to work under pressure, efficiently handle multiple tasks, quickly find creative solutions to problems and challenges that arise, and manage stress and time in a fast-paced work and fluid operating environment.
• Ability to foster and maintain a spirit of unity, teamwork, cooperation, and learning.
• Willingness and ability to travel.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Sensitivity in working with multiple cultures and beliefs, and to gender equity.
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team.

Key Competencies:

• Good Knowledge of effective communication skills both inter-personal and intra-personal.
• Team work and personal impact.
• Attention to detail.

Additional Advantage:

• Understanding of faith-based organizations and capacity-building in local partnerships
• Familiarity with policies, procedures, and priorities of Caritas agencies
• Experience in staff development and partner capacity
• Demonstrated commitment to improving gender equality in programming and operations.
• Demonstrated capacity and experience with institutional strengthening of civil society
• Flexibility to work both in a team and independently
• Cultural sensitivity, patience and flexibility
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally as required.

Typical Physical Demands:

• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift 5-50 lbs.

Safeguarding Statement:

As an organization, Caritas Nigeria takes the issue of Protection against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) seriously. Safeguarding the people we interface with in all our programmatic work is of utmost importance to us.

Caritas Nigeria only recruits representatives who abide by the strict responsibility of SEAH.

By applying to this role, applicants agree to background checks related to safeguarding and confirm adherence to Caritas Nigeria safeguarding policies.

Continued Professional Development CPD:

CARITAS NIGERIA is committed to providing CPD for its Employees. Employees are required to undertake available Training Courses and Research to enhance personal knowledge, skills and experience.

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