Procurement Associate (2 positions)
Sanaa
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Sanaa
- Grade: Administrative support - GS-6, General Service - No need for Higher Education - Locally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Administrative support
- Procurement
- Closing Date: 2024-12-09
After 8 years of conflict, Yemen still faces an unprecedented political, humanitarian, and development crisis. Yemen’s conflict broke into a full-blown civil war in March 2015. Despite the continued efforts by the UN to broker a peace deal, Yemen continues to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. An estimated 24 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and Yemen already lost 21 years of developments gains just until 2019 after four-year of conflict. UNDP predicts that if the conflict persists unabated, Yemen will have the greatest depth of poverty (11.7 million people into extreme poverty), and second poorest in income inequality of any country in the world. The un-extended truce of April 2022 still holds in the country, with renewed hope for a peace process to be launched under the auspices of the UN.
Four years into the civil conflict, there are some glimmers of hope that a political breakthrough can be achieved and bring the war to an end. In anticipation, UNDP is scaling up its programming and staff capacity in Yemen to support the peace process going forward. In this regard, UNDP elaborated a revised country strategy note that focuses on supporting the transition from humanitarian to development, through three main pillars: (a) green economic recovery; (b) governance and peacebuilding; and (c) climate change, water, energy and environment.
UNDP is striving to ensure its procurement function and practices are an integral part of UNDP’s competitive advantage as a development partner of choice. This requires placing more attention on strategically integrating procurement at the project design stage, stimulating innovation in specifications and technologies, and adopting more sustainable production and consumption practices that align with UNDPs sustainable development goals. Sustainable procurement means making sure products, services, and purchases are as sustainable as possible with the lowest environmental impact and most positive social results. In implementing UNDP strategic procurement priorities, Country offices will strive to use flexible methods for high-value/low-risk and timely delivery that meet the needs of its clients and key stakeholders
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the DRR, Operations Manager, or Procurement Specialist, the Procurement Associate ensures execution of effective, efficient and transparent procurement services and processes in CO. The Procurement Associate may supervise and/or lead the support staff of the CO Procurement Unit. S/he promotes a client-focused, quality, and results-oriented approach in the Unit.
The Procurement Associate works in close collaboration with Operations, Programme and project teams in the Country Office, Region and UNDP HQ and with vendors to exchange information and resolve complex procurement-related issues.
UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
1.) Implement sustainable procurement strategies and policies that are in alignment with principles of fairness, integrity and transparency to achieve best value for money. | |
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2.) Organize procurement processes for CO, projects, and other UN Agencies.
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3.) Implement sourcing strategies to find best values in the marketplace and align purchasing strategy to project and CO goals. | |
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4.) Facilitate procurement knowledge building and knowledge sharing in CO. | |
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5.) Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment | |
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The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization | |
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: May supervise support staff in Procurement Unit |
Core : Full list of UNDP Core Competencies can be found here | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achieve Results
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LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Think Innovatively
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LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Learn Continuously
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LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Adapt with Agility
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LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Act with Determination | LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Engage and Partner
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LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
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LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making | |||||||||||||||||||||||
People Management (Insert below standard sentence if the position has direct reports.)
UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)
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- Secondary education is required
- A university degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Economics or equivalent will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.
- CIPS level 2 is a requirement for this position. If certification is not available at the time of recruitment, it should be obtained within one year.
- Minimum of 6 years (with high school diploma) or 3 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant progressively responsible administrative experience is required at the national and international level. Experience in public sector procurement of goods and services would be an advantage.
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and advanced knowledge of web-based management systems such as ERP.
Language:
- Fluency in both English and Arabic languages is required.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.