The Digital Skills Association aims to hire a Procurement Officer to support the preparation and implementation of DigiSkills’ activities and will report directly to the Operations Manager.

Responsibilities of the Procurement Officer

1.     Coordinate closely with the PMU procurement staff at the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) and support implementing all policies and procedures related to procurement activities and ensuring MoDEE and the World Bank’s procurement regulations are followed in all transactions

2.     Participate in technical committees or team meetings in order to ensure timely implementation progress with a focus on procurement -related activities

3.     Support management of contracts including inspection, ensuring compliance with terms and conditions of contract, proactively addressing delays, trouble-shooting problems, assisting in contract amendments, and ensuring completion of the delivery works

4.     Develop and update the project procurement plans and maintaining other well-defined tools to manage and track procurement activities including costs, timeline, status, etc.

5.     Assisting the Bid Opening Committee as well as the Evaluation Committee to prepare evaluation reports as well as providing necessary assistance and tools for conducting evaluation processes

6.     Ensure compliance of procurement activities with MoDEE and World Bank’s rules, regulations, policies, and strategies

7.     Coordinate closely with MoDEE’s PMU Finance Officer, and provide them with progress reports against procurement plans for the life of the project

8. Coordinate closely with the Operations Manager and support processes for proper monitoring system and control of procurement processes, including managing Expressions of Interest (EOI), Requests for Proposals (RFP), Request for Bids (RFB), and Requests for Quotations (RFQ), receipt and evaluation of quotations, bids or proposals, negotiation of certain conditions of contracts in full compliance with MoDEE and World Bank’s rules and regulations

9.     Maintain a coherent filing system for archiving all approvals, contracts, contract amendments including all consultants’ deliverables are properly filed and referenced

Other duties as assigned

Duration of Assignment

The contract period is for one year, renewable up on annual appraisal. The Procurement Officer must diligently perform in a proper and efficient manner the duties set out within this ToR and any other tasks or responsibilities that may arise in relation to DigiSkills needs.

Job Details

Preferred Candidate