Norwegian Refugee Council(NRC) External Vacancy Announcement
Job Position – Procurement Officer
Required Qualification and Experience
Education: BA Degree in Business Administration or equivalent
Minimum of 5 years’ experience from working as a logistician, procurement in a humanitarian/recovery context
Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
Fluency in English, both written and spoken
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge, and experience:
Willing to travel to remote areas, ability to work flexibly including weekends
Willingness to travel and work in rural locations and live in basic conditions.
Work Place: Shire
Deadline: January 16th 2025
competencies:
Handling insecure environment
Planning and delivering results
Empowering and building trust
Communicating with impact and respect
Required Skills
Analytical skills
Attention to detail & aesthetics
Role and responsibilities
Generic responsibilities:
Organize all logistics process and ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks, guidelines, and donor regulations.
Responsible for the effective management of the procurement process by ensuring adherence to country and NRC regulations
Provide technical support in market surveys and assessment at Area Office.
Provide anti-corruption, transparency and cost-efficiency focus on all procurement processes
Provide training to project staff in procurement matters
Establish proper filing system of all procurement documents.
Prepare and develop status reports as required by management in weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis
Implement internal controls and procedures for ensuring strict compliance with the NRC Mission’s Logistics Handbook and its standard operating procedures.
Prepare online tender on e-Sourcing tool and provide support to tender opening committee
Development of holistic and needs based programmes, including cash-based interventions and marked based programmes
Specific responsibilities
Manage procurement activities at the support office that includes procurements requested from the area and field offices.
Manage closed tenders and ensure it is complaint with NRC and donors’ regulations.
Support area offices teams to carry out local market assessments
Ensure daily verification of agresso procurement tracker and provide update to the Logistics Manager.
Maintains an up-to-date electronic record of all correspondence related to purchase orders, requisitions, and Good Received Notes (GRN) and records.
Support the tender opening committee (both online and manual processes) when it comes to preparing and mobilizing resources.
Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and marked based programmes in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies
Provide an enabling environment for the implementation of cash-based interventions, including multi-purpose cash assistance, emergency cash responses.
How To Apply
Application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria are invited to send in their application letters including updated curriculum vitae with day-time telephone number and contact details of three work-related referees only through https://www.nrc.no/carreier. Please attach photocopies of the most relevant educational certificates/testimonials and work experience documents. Applications should reach NRC latest by 16 January 2025 at 5:00 pm.
NB: only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.
“Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and on-the-job training will be provided!”