Background
The UN Secretary-General established the UN SDG Action Campaign to inspire people and organizations from all backgrounds and every part of the world to take actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, while holding decision-makers to account for progress society-wide. The UN SDG Action Campaign is hosted and supported by UNDP and is based in Bonn (Germany) with a lean team that marshals rapid support for new initiatives as opportunities arise and provides partners with on-demand strategic creative services that inspire SDG action with an engaged community of activists and concerned individuals.
The UN SDG Action Campaign is working closely with cities and local governments to showcase how they are actively contributing to implement Agenda 2030, accelerating transformative action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for all, and everywhere.
Within this context, the UN SDG Action Campaign is seeking to recruit a Procurement Officer on Local Public Private Partnerships to support municipal service provision in support of SDGs. Local and regional governments are already responsible of over 65% of the SDG targets, most of them linked to basic service provision from water, sanitation, mobility, climate action, health or education. A big part of that service provision happens in partnership with private sector providers, municipalities across the world need to innovate and improve their procurement procedures and establish more strategic relations with the private sector within the framework of the accelerated action required to implement the SDGs in time for year 2030.
SDGs are genuinely interlinked with service provision at local level. To be able to deliver on Agenda 2030, local and regional governments need to establish contractual relationships with capable and trustworthy private sector providers, mostly through PPPs (Public Private Partnerships). The Procurement Officer will support UNDP cities and their partners to generate knowledge through the exchange of experiences and by sharing common concerns and possible solutions to improve the effectiveness of PPPs for SDG delivery at local level.
The Procurement Officer will support participant local and regional governments to improve their PPPs efficiency to align and deliver on Agenda 2030.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitate internal clients needs particularly in the area of procurement planning, contract management, and procurement processes, conducted by SDG Campaign;
- Support the conduct of supply market analysis in order to understand how the market works, the direction, the competitiveness of the market, the key suppliers and the value that suppliers place on the organization;
- Develop and manage the necessary tools (including internal Standard Operating Procedures) to streamline business procedures, e.g. updating and maintaining the data bases for different type of contracts including ICs, IPSAs, contract for goods and services, POs, Rosters, etc;
- Exercise oversight of procurement processes including preparation and management of RFQs, ITBs or RFPs, receipt of quotations, bids or proposals, their evaluation, negotiation of certain conditions of contracts in full compliance with UNDP rules and regulations;
- Facilitate elaboration and implementation of contract strategy, sourcing strategy, quality management, supplier selection, and improvement of procurement processes;
- Facilitate the analysis of information required in the preparation of procurement plans and monitoring of its implementation.
- Liaise with technical managers, review TOR and provide support to the technical evaluations; and
- Support SDG Campaign with the preparation of submissions to the Contract, Asset and Procurement Committee (CAP) and Advisory Committee on Procurement (ACP).
Additionally, the Procurement Officer will work with the UNDP-UN SDG Action Campaign Network to:
- Promote exchange of experiences amongst participating local governments;
- Identifying innovative platforms and tools available to improve SDG delivery at local level;
- Elaborate and advise on legal instruments and pricing models; and
- Increase citizens usability and participation into service deliver.
Competencies
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Achieve Results: | LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Think Innovatively: | LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learn Continuously: | LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adapt with Agility: | LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Act with Determination: | LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Engage and Partner: | LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: | LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
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Required Skills and Experience
Min. Education requirements |
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Min. years of relevant work experience |
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Required skills |
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Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section |
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Required Language(s) |
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Professional Certificates |
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