Deadline: 02 April, 2021
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
UN Women is seeking to fill the position of Procurement Associate.
UN Women is the UN agency dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Responsibilities
- Prepare procurement-related reports and analyses, research and draft responses to enquiries for clearance by operations manager
- Coordinate the implementation of corporate procurement management policies and strategies in support of cost saving and operations for the multi country office (MCO) in the region
- Finalise procurement plans for programmes/projects and monitor their implementation
- Review procurement requests and initiate procurement procedures for office and project equipment, supplies and services in the RO, MCO, and COs
- Review/process contracts for the MCO in the region
- Monitor and analyse contract performance
- Develop and update the rosters of suppliers, and support implementation of supplier selection and evaluation
- Develop and support the development of training materials, webinars and other education materials
- Organise procurement training
Requirements
- Completion of secondary education
- Specialise training in Procurement/bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration or a related field is an asset
- Procurement certification from an internationally recognised institution such as CIPS is an asset
- Willingness to take UN Women internal procurement certifications
- Seven years, minimum, of responsible experience in procurement, administration
- Experience in the use of computer and Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, etc.)
- Experience in handling of web-based management systems such as Atlas
- Working knowledge of another official UN language will be an asset
- Fluency in oral and written English
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