Procurement Officer Consultant I

3 weeks ago


القاهرة, Egypt World Food Programme Full time

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

4 January 2025-23:59-GMT+02:00 Eastern European Standard Time (Cairo)

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

To learn more about WFP, visit our website:
WHY JOIN WFP?- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):
- Consolidate and analyze data from which to inform Country sourcing strategies or plan specialist procurement initiatives that support effective and cost-optimizing purchase decisions.- Provide oversight, guidance, and support with/to Country Offices with relatively straightforward procurement needs (moderate value commodities, delivering programmes of a similar nature) on implementing best practice procurement policies and procedures, ensuring a strategic, forward purchasing approach to procurement in compliance with wider WFP policies, standards and regulations.- Lead the implementation of procurement projects of moderate complexity or manage operational activities for a Country Office (e.g. issue tenders, evaluate offers, and negotiate/award contracts), to ensure successful procurement of food and non-food commodities or services.- Collate information and draft appropriate responses to recommendations to support auditing of procurement activities and ensure conformity with compliance rules.- Identify, develop, and maintain strong relationships with all relevant suppliers and vendors to enable WFP to maximize the value of the service delivered.- Manage and coordinate effective relationships with inspection and superintendent firms to ensure quality control, specification conformity, volume assessment, monitoring, and verification of deliveries.- Work closely with cross-functional counterparts to align procurement activities and promote an integrated supply-chain approach to food assistance.- Coordinate and prepare accurate and timely reports of procurement activities to contribute to a WFP-wide view that enables informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders, leading to performance optimization.- Manage individual procurement officers or small procurement teams ensuring appropriate development and enable high performance.- Build the capacity of WFP staff and external partners to take a strategic and proactive approach to the procurement of food and non-food commodities and services e.g., through provision of training sessions.- Contribute to preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations and guidance, and monitoring the management of procurement-specific risks.- Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.- Other as required.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:
- Experience communicating and coordinating with UN agencies/ large international conglomerates.- Experience working with food commodity markets (incl. experience with freight markets) as well as goods and services needed in support of WFP’s Operations and its related market intelligence.- Experience working with vendors.- Has experience with budgeting, pipelines, and related issues in WFP Corporate Systems.

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience:
Total 5 years of professional experience for CST II.

Total 3 years of professional experience for CST I.

Education:
- Advanced University degree in Economics, Commerce, Business Administration, Engineering, Legal or Accounting or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Language:
- International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of



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