Overview

Provide operational coordination and administrative services to support procurement activities and projects. Support CPs and provide trainings on procurement activities for livelihood items, agricultural products, and livestock.

Tasks Summary

• Support CPs and provide trainings on procurement activities to purchase livelihood items, agricultural products and livestock.
• Support on engineering projects.
• Coordinate and support in onboarding of vendors to smart sourcing.
• Issue tenders, undertake evaluations, submission of procurement cases to the relevant procurement committees.
• Drafting contracts and preparing Purchase Orders.
• Ability to do market assessments of the selected categories and identify efficient and cost-effective sourcing strategies including processing LTAs.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of work experience in the field of procurement with preference on procurement related to agricultural products and livestock.
• Demonstrated experience of developing training materials, imparting trainings and capacity building activities in the field of Procurement.
• Must possess experience of procuring agricultural products, livelihood items, equipment and livestock.
• Experience in using ERP, data bases and electronic tendering systems.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, meeting tight deadlines and coordinate with internal & external stakeholders.
• Working closely with client units and CPs to provide training and guidance on sourcing livestock and agricultural products.
• Ability to implement sourcing strategies including processing spot and long-term contracts.

Qualification Requirements

• A bachelor's Degree in procurement or Agriculture/Livestock.