Procurement Analyst (Open to Gambia Nationals Only)

Procurement Analyst (Open to Gambia Nationals Only)


  • Job Identification
    22275
  • Posting Date
    2024-11-19, 05:51 p.m.
  • Apply Before
    2024-12-05, 07:59 a.m.
  • Job Schedule
    Full time
  • Locations





    Banjul, Gambia





  • Agency
    UNDP
  • Grade
    NOA
  • Vacancy Type
    Fixed Term
  • Practice Area
    Management
  • Bureau
    Regional Bureau for Africa
  • Contract Duration
    1 Year with Possibility for extension
  • Education & Work Experience
    Master’s Degree
  • Other Criteria
    Bachelor’s Degree – 2 yr(s) expertise
  • Required Languages
    English and no less than 2 native languages of the obligation station
  • Desired Languages
    Working data of one other UN language
  • Vacancy Timeline
    2 Weeks
  • Mobility required/no mobility
    no mobility required

  • Job Description

    Background

    Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core rules at UNDP:  we worth range as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a method of making certain all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ method to our range efforts means growing illustration of underserved populations. People who determine as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring stories.
     
    UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any sort of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks.

    UNDP The Gambia has a progressive Country Programme protecting a variety of associated points. These embody local weather resilience, catastrophe threat administration, renewable vitality, sustainable chemical compounds and waste administration, and sustainable pure useful resource administration, sustaining peace, transitional justice, democracy, rule of regulation, human rights, native governance and anticorruption. The Programme additionally pursues linkages with different points addressing points similar to poverty eradication, financial transformation, inequalities and battle prevention below the framework of Sustainable Development Goals.
     
    The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) are designed in full alignment with the 2030 agenda, The strategic priorities of UNDP Indonesia for the following five-years are encapsulated below 4 consequence areas: 1) Sustainable atmosphere and local weather resilience; 2) Responsive, accountable governance and peacebuilding, 3) Green, inclusive financial development.
     
    Within The Gambia Country Office (CO), the Operations Team offers programme with spine assist and providers associated to finance, procurement, human sources, digital providers, journey, and logistics, in addition to frequent providers and CO transactions assist. The staff additional offers demand-driven Common providers to the UN companies (per agreed procedures). In addition, the staff will present administrative assist to UNDP Staff together with venture personnel on areas similar to protocol, visa facilitation, journey, and others.
     
    The Programme staff oversees efficient implementation of the nation programme and its outcomes and strategic course of UNDP, contribution to UN cooperation framework. In doing so, the Programme staff offers excessive stage recommendation on programming and technical points, and additional has a duty of creating, offering oversight, and making certain adherence to the standard requirements of UNDP. The staff can be liable for useful resource mobilization and to preserve efficient partnerships with related growth companions and authorities, UN Agencies, IFIs, authorities establishments, bilateral and multilateral donors, non-public sector, and civil society within the designated assist areas.
     
    UNDP is striving to guarantee its procurement operate and practices are an integral a part of UNDP’s aggressive benefit as a growth associate of alternative. This requires putting extra consideration on strategically integrating procurement on the venture design stage, stimulating innovation in specs and applied sciences, and adopting extra sustainable manufacturing and consumption practices that align with UNDPs sustainable growth targets. Sustainable procurement means ensuring merchandise, providers, and purchases are as sustainable as doable with the bottom environmental impression and most optimistic social outcomes. In implementing UNDP strategic procurement priorities, Country places of work will attempt to use versatile strategies for high-value/low-risk and well timed supply that meet the wants of its shoppers and key stakeholders. 
     
    Position Purpose
     
    The Procurement Analyst will work below the strategic steerage and direct supervision of the Operations Manager. The Program Analyst both supervises or is a staff member of the CO Procurement Unit, and is liable for efficient supply of procurement providers to receive greatest worth for cash. S/he analyzes and interprets monetary outcomes and laws, and offers options to complicated procurement points. The procurement analyst promotes a collaborative and client-focused, high quality and results-oriented method within the Unit. 
     
    The Procurement Analyst works in shut collaboration with Operations, Programme and venture groups within the Country Office, Region, and UNDP HQ in addition to with distributors and Government officers, to efficiently ship procurement providers, present options to complicated procurement points, and supply advisory assist. 
     
    UNDP adopts a portfolio method to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to obtain its strategic targets. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout models, features, groups, and tasks in multidisciplinary groups so as to improve and allow horizontal collaboration. 
     
    Duties and Responsibilities

    1) Provide analytical inputs to the elaboration and implementation of progressive and sustainable procurement methods and insurance policies which might be in alignment with rules of equity, integrity and transparency to obtain greatest worth for cash.
    • Ensure full compliance of procurement actions with UNDP guidelines, laws, insurance policies, and strategic priorities via efficient inner controls, and analyzes parameters in assist of modifications to UNDP’s consumer–oriented procurement administration system; 
    • Elaborate/set up inner procurement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), map CO procurement enterprise processes, and help in managing workflows in Procurement Unit in coordination with supervisor; 
    • Participate in and supply enter to discussions on procurement methods and plans with tasks and different stakeholders and donors to guarantee mutual alignment; 
    • Conduct evaluation and put together proposals on the CO contract technique, sourcing technique, provider choice, high quality administration, value discount methods, and enchancment in procurement processes in CO. 
    2) Support administration of procurement processes for CO, tasks, and different UN Agencies.
    • Analyze data as a part of preparation of procurement plans for the workplace and tasks; and monitor their implementation; 
    • Implement correct monitoring programs, mechanisms and controls for procurement processes that cowl RFQ, ITB or RFP, receipt and analysis of quotations, bids or proposals, and negotiation of sure situations of contract implementation (together with fee phrases) in full compliance with UNDP guidelines and laws; 
    • Conduct preliminary assessment of submissions to inner procurement assessment committees (CAP, RACP, ACP); 
    • Elaborate proposals on procurement course of monitoring programs and mechanisms to eradicate deficiencies in procurement, and implement the inner management system that ensures buy orders are duly ready, dispatched, and corrected on a well timed foundation when there are errors or different issues; 
    • Implement harmonized procurement providers and analyze new alternatives for joint procurement for UN companies according to the UN reform. 
    3) Implement a strategic sourcing technique and e-procurement instruments to discover greatest values within the market and align buying technique to venture and CO targets.
    • Develop and handle rosters of suppliers; 
    • Elaborate provider choice and analysis standards, and high quality and efficiency measurement mechanisms; 
    • Develop Long-Term Agreements/Framework Agreements for extra environment friendly class administration; 
    • Manage and implement e-procurement system in CO.
    4) Facilitate procurement data constructing and data sharing in CO, Region, UNDP and UN. 
    • Participate in organizing procurement coaching for the operations and venture workers. 
    • Organize procurement coaching for distributors on e-procurement modules; 
    • Synthesize classes realized and greatest practices in procurement;
    • Make contributions to data networks and communities of practic;
    • Participate in Operations Management Team (OMT) to share data on cross-cutting areas and collaboration alternatives to obtain better economies of scale. 
     The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed essential for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.
     
     Competencies

    Core Competencies

    • Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline.
    • Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to inventive concepts/identified dangers, is pragmatic downside solver, makes enhancements.
    • Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions.
    • Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile.
    • Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, ready to ship calmly in face of adversity, assured.
    • Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in the direction of others, kinds optimistic relationships.
    • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

    Functional/Technical competencies

    Procurement

    • Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing ideas, rules and strategies, and talent to apply this to strategic and/or sensible conditions.

    Procurement

    • Contract Management: Knowledge of contract administration ideas, rules and strategies, and talent to apply this to strategic and/or sensible conditions.

    Procurement

    • Data Analysis: Ability to extract, analyze and visualize procurement information to type significant insights and support efficient enterprise determination making.

    Procurement

    • Stakeholder Management: Ability to work with incomplete data and stability competing pursuits to create worth for all stakeholders. 

    Business Management: Customer Satisfaction/Client Management

    • Ability to reply well timed and appropriately with a way of urgency, present constant options, and ship well timed and high quality outcomes and/or options to fulfill and perceive the true prospects’ wants. 
    • Provide inputs to the event of customer support technique.
    • Look for methods to add worth past shoppers’ quick requests.
    • Ability to anticipate consumer’s upcoming wants and issues.

    Business Management

    • Risk Management: Ability to determine and set up motion round mitigating and proactively managing dangers.

    Business Management

    • Operations Management: Ability to successfully plan, set up, and oversee the Organization enterprise processes so as to convert its belongings into one of the best ends in probably the most environment friendly method. Knowledge of related ideas and mechanism. 
     
    Required Skills and Experience
     
    Education:
    • Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Finance, or associated subject is required; 
    • A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) together with two years of qualifying expertise shall be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma;
    • CIPS stage 3 is a requirement for this place. If certification isn’t accessible on the time of recruitment, it ought to be obtained inside one yr. 
    Experience:
    • Applicants with Master’s diploma (or equal) in a related subject of research usually are not required to have skilled work expertise. Applicants with a Bachelor’s diploma (or equal) are required to have a minimal of two (2) years of related skilled expertise on the nationwide or worldwide stage in public sector procurement administration; 
    • Experience in using computer systems and workplace software program packages (MS Word, Excel, and so on.) and superior data of web-based administration programs similar to ERP;
    • Experience with e-procurement programs and instruments is fascinating;
    • Ability to design procurement methods that align with venture targets, incorporating sustainability and value effectivity is fascinating; 
    • Experience in offering procurement coaching and data sharing with friends and vendor;
    • Experience main procurement models or taking part in high-level strategic discussions; 
    • Experience in procurement inside worldwide organizations or massive entities, with a give attention to sustainable procurement or progressive procurement methods.

    Language:

    • Fluency within the UN language of the obligation station is required.
    • Fluency within the nationwide language of the obligation station is required for native workers.
    • Knowledge of one other UN language is fascinating. 
     
    Please observe that continuance of appointment past the preliminary 12 months is contingent upon the profitable completion of a probationary interval.

     
    Disclaimer          
     
    Applicant details about UNDP rosters
     
    Note: UNDP reserves the best to choose a number of candidates from this emptiness announcement.  We can also retain purposes and contemplate candidates making use of to this submit for different related positions with UNDP on the similar grade stage and with related job description, expertise and academic necessities.

    Non-discrimination
     
    UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in the direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules.  
     
    UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate based mostly on race, intercourse, gender id, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing. 
     
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