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Program Description:

The USAID-funded Ethiopia Civic Engagement Activity is a four-year activity with the overall goal to strengthen Ethiopia’s civic fabric in support of more inclusive, peaceful, and responsive governance. The project aims to strengthen civic and community-based actors’ capacity to engage in policy analysis, advocacy, dialogue, and collective action for peaceful, democratic change; and foster multi-stakeholder civic partnerships in support of inclusive dialogue, respect for human rights, and advancing more effective, citizen-responsive, and accountable governance.   

Position Summary:

The Sr. Procurement Officer is responsible for reviewing overall procurement processes, tracking procurements of goods and services through the procurement cycle, ensuring that adequate competition is achieved for procurement, and providing regular procurement mentoring to project staff to support implementation.

Reporting: This position reports to Operations Manager

• Maintain comprehensive procurement files, including solicitations, proposals, evaluations, award documents, official contracts, and correspondence on all procurements, following policies and local law. Files will be organized according to the procurement checklist
• Develop procurement plans, setting clear exceptions for both projects when large procurement arise that will take more time than the average split between projects
• Maintain procurement transparency on project SharePoint
• Supervise and verify the procurement of materials according to the needs of the project
• Ensure presentation of sufficient selection that meets requirements of quality assurance, delivery and transparency
• Process procurement according to respective rules and regulations
• Compile and review budges, solicited, quotations, negotiations, and analysis to recommend vendors for delivery of goods and materials to grantees
• Verify deliveries are complete and done in a timely manner
• Soliciting bids and quotes from potential vendor and ensure they are according to the project procurement protocols.
• Ensures prompt update of the procurement files into the procurement database, Reqlogic
• Other tasks as assigned by the immediate supervisor

Required skills & Qualifications:

• BA degree required.
• At least 5 years of prior work experience (5+ years general work experience and including at least 3+ years of specific experience in procurement required.
• Advanced knowledge of Spoken and Written English highly desired, medium level required.
• Experience working on USAID or Similar internationally funded programs
• Strong knowledge of donor procurement rules and regulations
• Strong ability to use and develop management and tracking systems
• Ability to work under pressure in challenging working and living conditions

Only finalists will be contacted.  No phone calls, please.

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