Job description

Title: Project Driver BCPAP

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Program Operations

LOCATION: Lusaka

GRADE: NAT 6

Safeguarding

Save the Children does not tolerate any form of exploitation, abuse, or harassment against any person. It is the responsibility of all employees and representatives to protect all people who come in contact with our organization. Save the Children commits to applying the same standards to all its employees and subject them to the same processes regardless of their position, influence, or reputation within or outside of the organization.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Save the Children International’s Diversity Policy, aims to promote equal opportunity in employment and to ban any kind of discrimination based on sex, age, social class, disability, HIV status, religion, race and ethnicity.

INTRODUCTION [PROJECT OVERVIEW]

Save the Children (SCI) is the world’s leading independent non-profit organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. SCI’s Mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives. In Zambia, Save the Children has been implementing programmes since 1983 across Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, Child Poverty, and Humanitarian Response.

Save the Children, in partnership with Vayu Global Health and the Ministry of Health (MOH), and with funding from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Charities (LDSC), will implement the Better Care for Small and Sick Newborns in Zambia project. The project aims to reduce facility-level neonatal mortality by improving access to high-quality respiratory care through the implementation of bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (bCPAP), strengthening referral and transfer systems for sick newborns, and enhancing the capacity of health workers across Lusaka, Central, and Southern Provinces. The project will be implemented in ten district-level public health facilities providing maternity services with functional 24-hour inpatient newborn care units. The intervention will strengthen the quality of care for small and sick newborns through evidence-based clinical practice, health systems strengthening, capacity building, mentorship, quality improvement, and sustainable integration of bCPAP services into routine newborn care

ROLE PURPOSE

The Project Driver under the, Better Care for Small and Sick Newborns in Zambia project is responsible for providing support in the area of staff road travel needs, ensuring the maintenance and effective running of office & field vehicles

SCOPE OF ROLE

Reports to: Procurement officer.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

To drive office staff and any other visitors as assigned.
To be responsible for all office vehicles and ensure that they are kept clean at all times.
To follow up fuel account for office vehicles and carry out fuel reconciliation
Prepare monthly vehicle analysis report.
Responsible for routine vehicle maintenance inspection checks.
Ensuring timely statutory vehicle payments such as road taxes, vehicle insurance and fitness are all upto date
Regular and accurate updating of vehicle logbooks and transferring data on pro fleet datasheet and Monitoring vehicle performance
To be part of the bigger supply chain picture of local options for reducing carbon emission and child safeguarding.

The post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability

Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration

Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
Must be polite and have curtesy
Approachable, a good listener and easy to talk to

Creativity

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Integrity

Honest, encourages openness and transparency

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Full Grade 12 certificate
Valid clean driver’s license – Class C
Certificate in Auto mechanics/ skills of minor vehicle repair
CIPS certificate will be an added advantage
5 years working experience in a reputable organization or an NGO.
Must be self-driven, honest, and have the ability to work well under pressure

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

QUALIFIED APPLICANTS SHOULD ONLY ATTACH A COVER LETTER AND AN UPDATED CV.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 10^th August 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Save the Children reserves the right to re advertise if suitable applicants are not found.

Save the Children is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not engage in any practices which discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, colour, religion, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status and we will never ask that you pay for anything as part of the selection process or thereafter

Project Driver BCPAP