Job Vacancy: Procurement Officer
Location: Dar es salaam
WFP seeks candidates of the best integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian rules.
Number of workers is made on a aggressive foundation, and we're dedicated to selling range and gender steadiness.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Meals Programme is the world's largest humanitarian company combating starvation worldwide. The mission of WFP is to assist the world obtain Zero Starvation in our lifetimes. Every single day, WFP works worldwide to make sure that no little one goes to mattress hungry and that the poorest and most weak, significantly girls and youngsters, can entry the nutritious meals they want.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
Handle, lead on and supply oversight to procurement operations, partnering with the important thing provide chain features, equivalent to logistics, to make sure an built-in provide chain strategy to assembly the meals help wants of beneficiaries.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
- Design procurement technique to purchase meals from merchants and smallholder farmers (SHF) in addition to non-food gadgets (NFI) to make sure easy operations in Tanzania and within the neighbouring nations
- Present oversight, steerage and assist to the Nation Places of work procurement staff to implement finest apply procurement insurance policies and procedures, guaranteeing a strategic and proactive strategy to procurement in compliance with wider WFP insurance policies, requirements and rules.
- Assist the pinnacle of provide chain in implementation of the provision chain technique, and lead and take part in actions of nationwide capability strengthening
- Consolidate and analyze knowledge to tell Nation sourcing methods or plan specialist procurement initiatives that assist efficient and price optimizing buy selections, whether or not from conventional suppliers or off-takers.
- Lead the procurement of meals and non-food gadgets (NFI) and handle operational actions for the Nation Workplace together with situation tenders, consider provides and negotiate/award contracts).
- Collate data and draft acceptable responses to suggestions to assist auditing of procurement actions and guarantee conformity with compliance guidelines.
- Conduct provider efficiency analysis evidenced by procurement knowledge and different related components
- Preserve a pool of dependable suppliers for all procurement gadgets; Establish, develop and preserve robust relationships with all related suppliers and distributors.
- Handle and coordinate efficient relationships with inspection and superintendent companies to make sure high quality management, specification conformity, quantity evaluation, monitoring and verification of deliveries.
- Work in shut collaboration with cross-functional counterparts together with regional bureaus (Johannesburg and Nairobi) and HQ procurement to align procurement actions and promote an built-in supply-chain strategy to meals help.
- Present lively assist to cash-based switch (CBT) actions by figuring out and contracting retail shops, the place wanted.
- Coordinate and put together correct and well timed studies of procurement actions to contribute to a WFP extensive view that permits knowledgeable determination making and consistency of data offered to stakeholders, resulting in efficiency optimization.
- Handle the procurement groups guaranteeing acceptable improvement and allow excessive efficiency
- Carry out different duties as assigned
DELIVERABLES
- Well timed, cost-effective and environment friendly procurement of meals, items and providers.
- Procurement operations and workers are managed, and management and oversight offered on procurement points
- Efficient partnership is maintained with the important thing provide chain stakeholders and features, equivalent to logistics, to make sure an built-in provide chain strategy to assembly the meals help wants of beneficiaries.
- Progressive tasks initiated and/or supported for smallholder farmers (SHF).
- Well timed, concise and efficient procurement report (company, periodic and advert hoc) for knowledgeable determination making.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Schooling: Superior College diploma in Economics, Commerce, Enterprise Administration, Engineering, Authorized or Accounting or different related subject, or First College diploma with an extra related work expertise and /or coaching / course.
Expertise: 5 years or extra of related progressive work expertise in offering oversight to procurement operations, partnering with the important thing provide chain features, equivalent to logistics, to make sure an built-in provide chain strategy to assembly the meals help wants of beneficiaries.
Data & Abilities: Confirmed Expertise speaking and coordinating with UN companies/ massive worldwide conglomerates. Expertise working with meals commodity markets (incl. expertise with freight markets) in addition to items and providers wanted in assist of WFP’s Operations and its associated market intelligence. Expertise working with distributors and Expertise with budgeting, pipelines and associated points in WFP Company Programs.
Languages: Fluency (degree C) in English language. Intermediate data (degree B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Solely short-listed candidates might be contacted.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
The appliance deadline 31 July, 2020.
emale candidates and certified candidates from creating nations are particularly inspired to use
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