THE ORGANIZATION
Yamba Malawi transforms children’s lives by empowering communities to break the cycle of poverty. We acknowledge that strained resources, poor safety nets, and limited caregiver capacity lead to poor childhood development outcomes, particularly during children’s first five years, and have lifelong effects. Limited  financial literacy and insufficient access to formal financial services hinder community and caregivers’ efforts to invest in their children’s futures. And lack of economic opportunity creates a cycle of extreme poverty that increases childhood vulnerability and has lifelong effects on children’s growth, development, and happiness.

Yamba Malawi’s signature Childhoods and Livelihoods program uses a holistic 3-pronged approach to addressing these complex and interrelated set of challenges: 1. improving nurturing care and support for children through the strengthening of community safety nets and services, and increasing caregiver knowledge and skills in best practices for childhood wellbeing and early childhood development (ECD), 2. increasing access to financial knowledge and services, including training, savings and credit, and budgeting to improve the use of income on children’s existing and future need, and 3. improving economic resilience through diverse income generating activities that provide increased income to meet children’s basic needs.

Working at the household and community level, the Program includes a planned, time-bound sequence of activities that pairs the transfer of business assets with training, savings promotion, short-term income stabilization, and critical ECD and childhood wellbeing coaching that enables caregivers to plan beyond immediate needs and build foundations to improve their children’s futures.

The organization is seeking experienced professionals to contribute their high level of expertise to the organization and the program through the following positions:

POSITION : Driver (1)
SUPERVISION RECEIVED : Programme Administrator
SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
LOCATION : Chikwawa, Nsanje, Phalombe

THE POSITION DESCRIPTION
The driver will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of all Program activities ensuring smooth logistics for staff, partners and property

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Driving and carrying out assignments and tasks as directed by the supervisor.
• Ensure that the assigned vehicle is tidy and road worthy.
• Providing travel and journey information to assigned personnel.
• Providing vehicle fuel utilization and maintenance report
• Assist Yamba staff in handling financial payments during workshops and trainings.
• Ensure availability of all the required documents including vehicle registration, vehicle insurance and vehicle logs
• Assist to deliver purchase orders, payment transfers to the bank and/or suppliers, conduct petty cash purchases for minor office expenditure.
• Assist the Operations team to obtain quotations and raise procurement requisitions for small value purchases (as required)
• Assist in updating vender register in the organization’s database.
• Ensure that vehicles are always kept in good running condition by addressing minor repairs such as oil change, oil filter change and an inspection of the car’s main components, such as the lights, brakes, tires and windscreen wipers.
• Making arrangement for major vehicle service
• Any other duty as required.

OTHER COMPETENCIES/ATTRIBUTES

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Proven ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize with the aim of providing administrative support in an efficient manner.
• Proficiency with MS Word and Excel.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Possession of a full Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE)
• Possession of Clean and valid driving license.
• Those with a certificate in motor vehicle mechanics will have an added advantage.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Please send your cover letter and Curriculum Vitae to  [email protected]  no later than Friday, February 3rd, 2023 Specify in the email subject line the position being applied for.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.