G6 FT Supply & Procurement Associate, Abuja, Nigeria (Batch Recruitment: Post # 96918 & #96919).

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, care

In Nigeria, UNICEF works in a posh humanitarian and improvement setting to meet and defend kids’s rights in partnership with authorities, civil society, kids, and households.  UNICEF Nigeria is without doubt one of the largest UNICEF Nation Places of work globally – click on the hyperlink to study extra about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/.

Organizational Context and Goal for the job

The elemental mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each youngster, all over the place, in every little thing the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any youngster has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to meet their potential but additionally will result in sustained development and stability of nations. That is why the concentrate on fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in the direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Provide and Procurement Affiliate performs extremely expert work on UNICEF NCO provide chains and manages the extra complicated instances and programme and operations part requests, which regularly requires the analysis of inauspicious conditions and adaptation of procedures and processes to resolve such instances. That is the senior GS stage for specialised provide chain work and requires superior specialised information acquired by formal coaching and expertise.

The operate is characterised as extremely impartial and offers alternatives for Associates to steer and perform accountability for upstream planning to procurement/contracting a part of the availability chain administration from the start to the top of the method, and supply enter into the design and improvement of improved provide chain companies and procurement/contracting mechanisms.

Key duties:

Abstract of key features/accountabilities:

 Provide Chain Service Supply and Response

Planning:

• In session with the supervisor, present enter to the Nation Programme Motion Planning and advise on Provide necessities for the Plan of Operations and Annual Work Plans. Take part within the forecasting, planning, implementation, monitoring, and analysis of the availability chain operations, together with the institution of efficiency indicators and evaluation of match for function of services.
• Assist provide emergency preparedness and response actions, together with institution of Lengthy-Time period Preparations (LTAs), Logistics Capability Evaluation and Contingency Plan replace, and pre-positioning of inventory.

Procurement/contracting:

• Present enter to and recommendation on the annual provide plan. Conduct knowledge evaluate and evaluation for class administration and improvement of procurement methods. Conduct market analysis in related areas for UNICEF and recommendation on the very best approaches to acquire the very best worth for cash and sustainable procurement. Assist product innovation and market-shaping initiatives for particular classes of provides and companies.
• Liaise with shoppers in planning procurement and contracting initiatives, supporting the event of acceptable specs, phrases of reference, and logistics preparations and timelines. Bear in mind alternatives to strengthen the sustainability of provide chains.
• Make sure the institution of Lengthy-Time period Preparations (LTAs) and act on particular procurement requisitions as may be required. Put together and course of Request for Quotations (RFQs), Invites to Bid (ITBs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs), as may be requested by the Supervisor. Set up bid openings and conduct technical and monetary evaluation of provides as may be required. Conduct clarifications and negotiations with suppliers. Preserve the best stage of integrity, moral requirements and accountability within the procurement of products, contracting of companies and development work.
• Put together requests for award, together with submissions to the Contract Evaluate Committee. Put together buy orders and contracts in SAP (ERP – Enterprise Useful resource Planning System), and submit for related approvals, making certain completeness of documentation in UNICEF programs.
• Preserve stakeholders/companions knowledgeable on the progress. Liaise with suppliers, making certain well timed follow-up on supply schedules. Implement acceptable vendor administration practices e.g., provide efficiency evaluations.
• Guarantee acceptable submitting of procurement instances and keep up-to-date data for future reference, together with for audit.

Different supply mechanisms and procurement companies:

• Assist evaluation of and collaboration with implementing companions, together with civil society, for the institution of Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCAs), and monitoring of provide elements beneath the Harmonized Strategy to Money Transfers (HACT).
• Take part in occasions/conferences that construct partnerships and collaborative relations with UN Organizations to assist harmonized and collaborative procurement and logistics preparations.
• Facilitate Procurement Providers (PS) transactions in collaboration with programme sections and UNICEF Provide Division (SD). As acceptable, assist CO counterparts on forecasting and costing of PS-channel provides. Monitor the issuance of Buy Orders (POs) and/or Copenhagen Warehouse Inventory Switch Orders on PS Gross sales Orders. Assist communications and comply with up with COs with regard to partnership requests and negotiations as required.
• In collaboration with Provide colleagues and Programme Sections, determine alternatives for capability constructing of Authorities counterparts and enhancing the availability chain course of to make it simpler.

Different duties/duties:

• In instances the place the incumbent has managerial accountability of lower-level GS workers, the incumbent will guarantee well timed and efficient efficiency administration of workers, offering sensible recommendation and steerage to make sure particular person and crew targets are met.
• In collaboration with the supervisor, Provide Division, Regional Workplace and the worldwide provide group, present enter to assist guarantee information change and studying is prioritized to repeatedly construct the capability of people and the crew. Develop and facilitate coaching of newcomers and set up processes or manuals to assist efficient workflows.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

Training:

Completion of secondary schooling is required, ideally supplemented by technical or college programs associated to produce chain, enterprise administration, contract/industrial regulation, or comparable

Expertise:

A minimal of 6 years of related administrative expertise in provide chain administration or a industrial context is required. Understanding of improvement and humanitarian work is a bonus.

 

Language Necessities:

Fluency in English is required. Data of one other UN language or native language of the responsibility station is taken into account as an asset.

 

For each Baby, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, and Accountability (CRITA). 

• The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…
• Builds and maintains partnerships (II)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (II)
• Drive to realize outcomes (II)
• Innovates and embraces change (II)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (II)
• Thinks and acts strategically (II)
• Works collaboratively with others (II)
• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Individuals (II)

To view our competency framework, please go to here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn into part of the group.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background examine.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of variety and inclusion is essential to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to use.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which might be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments can also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which can be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.