Job Title: Office Guard
Reports to: Administrative Assistant
Hours of Work: Full time
Location: The Position is based in West Nile
Engagement Terms: 1 year Contract Renewable upon Performance and availability of resources
Overall Purpose/Broad Function:
Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry. Obtains help by sounding alarms. Prevents losses and damage by reporting irregularities; informing violators of policy and procedures; restraining trespassers.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide a high quality cleaning service that includes tasks such as vacuuming, mopping, dusting, emptying bins, and polishing surfaces, offices and corridors.
- Secure premises and personnel by randomly or regularly patrolling property, monitoring equipment and access points and permitting entry to guests and staff
- Monitor, control and authorize entrance and departure of staff, visitors, and other persons to guard against theft and maintain security of premises.
- Inspect windows, doors and gates to ensure locks are in place and working
- Prevents losses and damages by reporting irregularities, informing violators of access or property policy and procedures.
- Warn persons of rule violations, and apprehend or evict violators or trespassers from premises, using legally acceptable means.
- Acting lawfully in direct defense of life or property at or for the organisation
- Control access to organisation vehicles and assets by an unauthorized persons.
- Control driving out of the organisation premised by restraining and reporting suspicious and or unauthorized assets and equipment those of staff and visitors
- Observing for signs of crime or disorder and report disturbances
- Ensuring all personnel including staff, tenants or visitors accessing the premises have signed in and out in the availed log book at the gate
- Call police or external security firm in cases of emergency such as presence of un-authorized persons
- Emptying waste/dustbins and make sure trash and rubbish is properly disposed-off through approved mechanisms
- When required, support the cleaning team by ensuring proper cleanliness of the office compound by sweeping or picking up any trash around
- Write and complete reports by recording in detail of daily activities or irregularities such as equipment or property damage, theft, presence of unauthorized persons, suspicious incidents, observations, unusual occurrences and surveillance activities
- Support the cleaners to perform and document routine inspection and maintenance activities and notify the Administration of occurring deficiencies or needs for repair
- Ensuring the general tidiness of the office premises such as picking up trash, unusable items like broken furniture or tools and disposing them off or keeping them in some convenient designated places.
- Perform any other duty that may be assigned to you from time to time
Job Experience and Specifications
- The ideal applicant must hold a UCE Certificate
- Previous experience of offering security services to busy companies and entities
- Demonstrated reliability.
- Basic knowledge of security and surveillance protocols and guidelines
- Previous trainings in security and guarding a requirement
- Ability to communicate competently and understand instructions in English and in common local language/s.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks
- Ability to understand and adhere to company security policies is key and will be assessed
Application procedure
- ALL Applications to be addressed to the Executive Director, THETA Uganda, P.O Box 21175 Mawanda Rd, Kampala.
- Only online applications are acceptable, online Submissions will only be via this link: https://forms.gle/QZrY8pRGBSFWPVjo7
- NO Application will be accepted later than 02:30pm Tuesday 14th September 2021
- Successful applicants MUST be available for immediate deployment.
- Applicants MUST indicate on the application letter, their current/ expected salary range
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