ICIPE Driver/Logistics Assistant Jobs in Addis Ababa Ethiopia

ICIPE Driver/Logistics Assistant Jobs in Addis Ababa Ethiopia

The International Centre of Insect Physiology & Ecology (icipe) seeks to hire a Driver/Logistics Assistant who will be a member of icipe Ethiopia office which is located at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

General:

International Centre of Insect Physiology & Ecology (icipe)—African Insect Science for Food and Health – is a world-class research centre with a mission to alleviate poverty by ensuring food security, improving health, protecting the environment and building the capacity of researchers and communities across the developing world, through the application of insect sciences.

Employing more than 500 national and international staff, icipe is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with outposts in Ethiopia and on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya.

icipe has a proud reputation and history of delivering world-quality science that has made crucial contributions to African food and health policy, delivered development outcomes to rural communities, and has been at the forefront of building Africa’s biological research capacity.

The Centre’s research activities span the African continent with partnerships linking research organizations, not only across Africa, but also the globe.

In addition, more than 100 graduate students and a number of postdoctoral fellows contribute to icipe’s research portfolio annually. For more information visit: http://www.icipe.org

Job Purpose:

Icipe has just initiated a pool based management of field vehicles with four vehicles to start with.

Apart from handling emerging driving duties on any of the field vehicles from this pool, this position will also be responsible in the collection and systematic archiving of vehicle movement data needed for cost analysis and attribution of the costs to various projects that utilized vehicles services.

Main Responsibilities: