Context

GIZ is looking for a qualified person to fill this position who can work at any duty station

Responsibilities

The Office Caretaker/ Gardener will be responsible for:

• Ensuring that the office premises and grounds are clean and tidy
• Reports damages to office areas and equipment -Identifying items/ areas needing attention, both inside and outside, and reporting to the Office Manager.
• Running errands and carrying out other tasks needed to run the office smoothly

Tasks

The Office Caretaker/ Gardener performs the following tasks:

1. Office Services

• In liason with the cleaning company, ensures that the premises, rooms, verandas, furniture, office equipment,  and windows are cleaned.
• Reports damages and items/ equipment needing repairs to the Office Manager.
• Checks and refills cleaning, kitchen and washroom supplies.
• Sets up and prepares the conference rooms and terraces as instructed
• Ensures that the kitchen and bathroom towels are cleaned and changed daily.
• Checks and refills cooking gas in the kitchen and advises Office Manager on re-fills
• Photocopying/ scanning documents for the Admin staff
• Checking and ensuring water tanks are always filled, and reporting to the Office Manager when there is a water shortage, to ensure timeous re-filling.
• Managing the switching on and off of the generator
• Ensuring that water bottles for drinking water are filled all the time, and advising the Office Manager on re-order levels.
• Checking and advising the Office Manager on electricity levels and top up.

2. Gardening Tasks

• Maintaining the flower bed and lawn and always ensuring that the garden is neat, watered and pruned.
• Making sure the grounds are always free of dirt.
• Ensuring that the installations and movable assets/ equipment kept outside are arranged in an orderly manner.

3. Other duties/additional tasks

• performs other duties and tasks at the request of the management

• Secondary school education
• At least 1-3 years working experience in a comparable position with references
• Reliability and good organisation skills, appropriate appearance and clothing
• A good spoken command of English is an additional advantage