Cleaner

JOB OVERVIEW:

The cleaner is responsible for ensuring that the IRC facilities are clean and tidy for IRC staff, ensuring that IRC spaces (office, guest house, subbase and other premises which are owned and rented by IRC) are appropriately organized; and providing support to logistics functions that the staff need.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Cleaner will undertake the following tasks:

• Ensure that all offices, guest houses, subbases, other IRC owned and rented premises are clean, tidy, and in order.
• Empty and clean rubbish bins daily and deposit rubbish in designated areas.
• Responsible for all the materials in the kitchen, i.e.: tea, sugar, coffee, milk etc., as well as the cleaning materials.
• Provides the supervisor with the required list of needs for the office, guest house, subbase, other premises rented and owned by IRC monthly.
• Ensure outside walkways remain clear and free of debris.
• Notify supervisor of any repairs required.
• Any other duties assigned by supervisor.

Positive attitudes and behaviors:

• A positive attitude towards staff.
• Ability to handle equipment used in cleaning
• Ability to walk, bend, push, pull and lift repetitively during working hours
• Honesty, integrity and personal ethics.
• Initiative, high energy and persistence to get the job done.
• Attentiveness to the details.
• Multitasking.

For people managers:

• Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue, and reflection at team level to strengthen safeguarding, wellbeing and duty of care, and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.
• Lead by example and support IRC’s commitment to taking all necessary preventive measures and creating an environment where people feel safe and can report misconduct.

For FMT and ESMT members:

• Model accountability and commitment to safeguarding all staff, partners, clients and others the IRC works with to build a culture of prevention of safeguarding violations in our workplace and our programs.
• Model accountability and commitment to the well-being of all staff, partners, clients and others the IRC works with to build a culture of duty of care in our workplace and our programs.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education: Secondary.

Experience: 6 months + at the same position. 

REPORTING STRUCTURE AND TEAM COLLABORATION 

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• This role requires full-time work in the office or hybrid type of working is possible after probation period
• Applicants must have a home or alternate workspace they can effectively complete their work from during regularly scheduled work hours.
• Travel to other locations is needed up to 30% of time
• Exempt from overtime
• Sometimes work on weekends may be required
• Work in the matrix organization
• Fast pace of working, multitasking and stressful work
• The organization cares about staff and provides flexible working options (start early-finish early, start later-finish later, remote work)

Staff can ask for accommodation of a workplace. Specific requests can be discussed with HR.

IRC employees are eligible to the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Purposeful job and development opportunities

• English classes and unlimited online training courses
• Life Insurance
• Medical insurance for staff and family members
• Free psychological support to employees and their family members
• 30 calendar days of annual vacation with flexibility beyond the legally set minimum requirements
• Up to 10 days of paid medical leave