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| Procurement Officer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Kabul, |
| Categories | Other, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-04-22 | Close Date | 2021-05-04 |
| Vacancy No | VA/2021/GIZ/26 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | Until 31.01.2022 |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree in business administration | Experience | 3-5 years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | According to GIZ salary scale/Salary band 4 |
About Company
About GIZ Afghanistan | TVET Project: As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. GIZ operates throughout Germany and in more than 120 countries worldwide. Our registered offices are in Bonn and Eschborn. We have more than 19,500 staff members around the globe, some 70% of whom are employed locally as national personnel. With an international remit and a multicultural working atmosphere, we are successful because we share knowledge across disciplinary frontiers. Your professional and personal development is important to us. Whether it is the multifaceted day-to-day challenges or the considerable scope for applying creativity in your work – there are plenty of good reasons to join our motivated team. The program “Support to Technical and Vocational Education and Training” (TVET program) aims at developing a target-group differentiated and labor-market oriented vocational education and training system in Afghanistan. It supports the Afghan TVET Authority to improve the core elements constituting a formal TVET system. The program consists of seven intervention areas: • Intervention area 1: Improving the effective operation of selected pilot schools. • Intervention area 2: Improving vocational education for company apprentices. • Intervention area 3: Facilitating cooperation between the private and public vocational training sectors. • Intervention area 4: Developing curricula geared to labor-market needs. • Intervention area 5: Capacity development for vocational training specialists. • Intervention area 6: Rehabilitation of selected pilot schools. • Intervention area 7: Piloting with new target groups
Job Description
Responsibilities:
The Procurement officer is responsible for Managing the overall procurement for the program. Purchase of goods and services and ensure for quality of the product considering price, delivery and continuity of role in line with GIZ rules and regulations.
Tasks in details:
- Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified
- cost, quality and delivery targets
- Updating the procurement tracking sheet and report to unit manager
- Prepare the purchase order
- Adhere to GIZ roles and Regulation for launching any procurement
- Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications
- Checks product samples together with internal recipients and/or representatives from partner institutions
- Conduct research for new components and suppliers
- Work closely with Admin office in the procurement function and review
- opportunities for continuous improvement in program
- Assists in and/or carry out other project activities and other tasks as assigned
- Monitor and advise on any issues which present risk or opportunity to the Organization
- Forwards procurement requests above 2,500 EUR to Admin Office for tenders
- Collecting of the fund request from units and giving update to Finance department twice a month
Job Requirement
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration
Professional Experience:
- At least 3-5 years of Experience in relevant field
Other experiences and skills (e.g. language, IT-skills, social and personal skills, etc.)
- Good knowledge of purchasing, negotiation and commercial understanding
- Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders and suppliers
- Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills
- Analytical, numerically astute with strong demonstrated problem-solving abilities
- Ability to fluently read and write and speak in national languages and English
Submission Guideline
You are kindly requested to fill in GIZ-Afghanistan’s job application form and send it along with your updated CV and letter of motivation with complete contact details to our HR recruitment unit through the online application process by using the below link:
https://www.giz-jobs.com/#id=db180278-7da7-44f2-8997-a31187e79bff
You can download the GIZ’s job application form from our jobs website (www.giz-jobs.com) or from the Job Applications section of ACBAR website (http://www.acbar.org/applicationform). We will not consider and review the applications without the job application form (for internal candidates, filling the form is optional).
Please do not send us your working certificates, educational certificates or any other additional documents while you are applying for the post. We will ask you for these documents if you are selected for the next steps of our recruitment.
Only those candidates will be invited for written test or interview who meets the qualifications and requirements for the mentioned job vacancy.
We would like to highly encourage females to apply for our vacant positions.
For more information about German Cooperation with Afghanistan and GIZ Afghanistan Projects, please visit our websites:
Submission Email
https://www.giz-jobs.com/#id=db180278-7da7-44f2-8997-a31187e79bff