TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS ASSISTANT (X2 POSTS) AT THE STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY – APPLY WITH GRADE 11

The Stellenbosch University is recruiting candidates to apply for the vacant post of Transport and Logistics Assistant x2 Posts.

 

Duties:

• Providing safe transport for research participants and staff to the research sites and imaging centres;
• Assisting community research workers (CRWs) with home visits;
• Maintaining vehicles, i.e. arranging for the vehicle service as required, and arranging for vehicle cleaning;
• Transporting biological samples to relevant laboratories;
• Attending relevant meetings;

 

 

• Ensuring that relevant training and licencing is up to date;
• Communicating with staff and research participants;
• Performing recruitment liaising duties, including ensuring a positive relationship between SU and clinic staff:

– Supporting community research workers;

– Having regular meetings with CRWs and clinic staff;

– Consenting participants and assisting with booking and scheduling their visits.

 

Job Requirements:

• A valid driver’s licence;
• At least Grade 11;
• Resides in Cape Town, in the vicinity of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences campus, Parow Valley;
• Has reliable private transport to and from  campus (situated near Tygerberg Hospital);
• Regular and long-term experience with driving a vehicle, OR previous experience as an employed driver, with a reference;
• PDP or eligibility to obtain PDP;

 

 

• The ability to work well within a team as well as independently;
• Willingness to transport potentially infectious people and samples (i.e. people with tuberculosis);
• Good overall health;
• The ability to speak, read and write Afrikaans and / or isiXhosa and / or English (at least two of the aforementioned);
• Computer literate.

 

How To Apply:

Stellenbosch University is committed to employment equity (EE), and appointments will be made in line with the EE plan for the specific environment as well as the institutional EE Plan of the University.

Stellenbosch University reserves the right not to make an appointment.

 

Your application, comprising a comprehensive curriculum vitae (including the names and email addresses of at least three referees), must reach the University before or on the closing date of the advertised post.

 

APPLY ONLINE AT https://www.sun.ac.za/english/careers BY USING THE APPLY NOW LINK AT THE TOP RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE SPECIFIC VACANCY PAGE.

The University reserves the right to investigate qualifications and conduct background checks on all candidates.

 

The Occupational Health and Safety Act requires people in occupations that entail potential exposure to certain hazards (such as, but not limited to: noise, hazardous chemical substances and hazardous biological agents) to be subjected to medical screening, to determine their fitness to work in the said occupations.

Should no feedback be received from the University within four to six weeks of the closing date, kindly accept that your application did not succeed.

 

Closing date: 17 May 2024

CLICK HERE TO APPLY