Economic Commission for Africa Procurement Officer Jobs in Ethiopia

Economic Commission for Africa Procurement Officer Jobs in Ethiopia; This position is located in the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Division of Administration, Supply Chain Management Section (SCMS). Under the overall direction of the Director, Division of Administration, the Procurement Officer reports to the Chief, SCMS.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Procurement Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Serves as Chief of the Procurement Unit and acts as a senior procurement and contracting expert with responsibility for complex civil and other construction works and the world-wide procurement of a wide variety of goods and services, including providing procurement support to the multi-year and multi-million dollar Capital Investment Programme (CIP), which is designed to renovate and modernize ECA’s real estate holdings.

• Continuously identify major procurement needs to deliver a series of quick wins that will improve ECA's operations.

• Establish, harmonize, and maintain appropriate and consistent procurement policies, compliance standards, and procedures across the Commission, ensuring that internal processes are well understood, and best practices are consistently followed.

• Works with the requisitioners and negotiates contractual arrangements with suppliers to ensure that value for money and excellent service levels are maintained and optimized across all categories of expenditure. • Undertakes continuous reviews of the existing procurement processes and continuously implement improvements where necessary to ensure that costs are monitored, reviewed and controlled within budgetary constraints and in line with UN Financial Rules and Regulations.


• Provides technical advice on procurement-related issues to clients during all phases of the procurement cycle, advising on post-contractual management activities, monitoring and compliance, preparation of contract amendments and arranging debriefings.

• Develops and prepares highly complex contracts for procurement of non-routine and technologically advanced commodities or long-range services; issues international tender invitations; evaluates responses to tender, and makes recommendations for finalization of purchases and award of contracts; signs procurement orders up to the authorized limit, and, in cases where the amount exceeds authorized signature authority, prepares submissions to the Contracts Committee (LCC and HCC) for review and subsequent approval by the authorized official.

• Contributes to the development of institutional procurement policies and procedures; develops standards and criteria for the evaluation of goods, services, supplier capacity, etc.

• Leads procurement process and efficiency improvements across ECA by ensuring wider use of modern technologies and online systems such as Umoja and the procurement tracking tool to monitor progress and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

• Addresses the human resource needs of the Unit, including providing leadership and supervision to staff. • Works/undertakes any other duties or special initiatives requested by senior management, in accordance with the scope and responsibilities of the role.

• Perform any other duties as required by the supervisor or the Director of the Division of Administration.

• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.

• Coordinate the deployment and implementation of the Supply Chain Planning Tool (SCPT) at ECA and other UN-wide procurement-related tools and initiatives. Work implies frequent interaction with the following:

• Specialists at the duty station and other duty stations.

• Colleagues and senior staff within ECA and the UN, both inside and outside the duty station.

• Government officials and counterparts in other UN organizations, businesses, or industries.

• Executives and representatives of engineering, marketing, sales, and technical firms, both domestic and international.

Education

Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, public administration, commerce, engineering, finance, law or a related field.

A first-level university degree in combination with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is an advantage.

Job - Specific Qualification

A professional certification such as CIPS Level 4 (or equivalent) is required.

Project/Programme Management methodology by an accredited body (e.g., PMP, PGMP, PMI, PRINCE 2 Foundation Project Management certification or practitioner level) or equivalent is desirable.


Work Experience

A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience of which four should have been directly in procurement is required.

Experience in contract management, administration or related area is desirable.

Work experience: 2 years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable


Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is desirable.


How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Economic Commission for Africa Procurement Officer Jobs in Ethiopia

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