Readvertisement -Contracts Specialist, FT, P3, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine, #125399

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each little one, a voice

UNICEF within the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of kids to entry providers and safety, from early childhood by way of to adolescence. Our goal is to make sure that each little one within the Gaza Strip and the West Financial institution, together with East Jerusalem, no matter background or circumstance, has an equal probability to satisfy their potential. We’re working for each little one and younger particular person within the State of Palestine.

How will you make a distinction?

The Contracts Specialist (P3) will present technical management within the implementation of the procurement and/or contracts technique for providers primarily based on knowledgeable danger evaluation evaluation and assumptions; they’ll make sure that a contract plan of motion is established and applied (institution of related LTAs and body agreements).

There are a selection of dangers confronted in the course of the procurement course of (cross-cutting dangers and dangers in each part and stage of the method) which want involvement in danger evaluation and planning sensible administration and operational measures. To handle and make sure the finest worth for cash and mitigate dangers, creation of a Contracts Specialist is required as there’s a clear development and strategic shift from donor funding for supply of products to demand for extra complicated and high-value infrastructural tasks, and/or extremely technical institutional providers within the new ADP doc.

Because the works for procuring providers are extra complicated than provides akin to sourcing service suppliers, defining clear TOR together with clear technical analysis standards, acceptable pricing, setting pre-bid assembly, analysis, awarding contract, monitoring the progress of contract and well timed response to particular person case for dispute.

As an advocate for kids, you’ll have the next duties/duties:

1. Present fast and related procurement assist and steerage, with a precedence on attaining worth for cash, to inner prospects from Nation Workplace

• Set up shut collaboration with programme sections by way of involvement in programme planning, and preparation for implementation of provide elements in addition to monitoring and analysis. Set up accountability framework with programmes, for supply of outcomes for kids.
• Analyze provide spend and set up procurement methods primarily based on class administration to give attention to strategic, important provides and providers that contribute to outcomes for kids, together with institution of long-term agreements (LTAs) the place related
• Present steady and up to date steerage on procurement for providers actions to all inner prospects as required and advise on essentially the most acceptable procurement technique.
• Assist procurement planning by way of coordination with inner prospects. Present technical assist in preparation of acceptable paperwork, and enter on specs, on procurement of fundraising providers, facilitating cost-effective and environment friendly procurement.
• Present proactive procurement assist, evaluation ongoing and future procurement necessities. Analyze provide dashboards, implementation charges of key efficiency indicators and provide info/information from varied methods and conduct root trigger evaluation of provide chain bottlenecks and challenges, with a view to drive enhancements and guarantee environment friendly and efficient provide chains for kids.
• Collaborate effectively and successfully with all members of the procurement staff to maximise the outputs of the staff and obtain the unit’s aims.
• Guarantee acceptable vendor administration practices e.g., provide efficiency critiques are established and utilized.
• Take part in high-level emergency coordination, implementation and monitoring conferences with inner and exterior companions and set up shut collaboration with Procurement Working Group.

2.  Develop tender methods, with a purpose to attain finest worth for cash in contracting for items and providers for the group.

• Compile lists of potential sources of procurement.
• Put together and challenge worldwide tenders, handle 2-stage RFP analysis course of and tabulate leads to a comparability matrix. Handle bidding processes utilizing UNICEF net tendering instrument, and orienting service suppliers/suppliers on the usage of the instrument.
• Put together Contracts Overview Committee (CRC) submissions for orders above the CRC threshold and current the circumstances to the CRC committee for evaluation and approval.
• Develop and put together complicated contracts for procurement of each once-off and long-term necessities for routine and non-routine providers.
• Successfully handle ongoing long-term contracts for provision of products and providers to make sure that service supplier/provider’s efficiency is inside acknowledged service ranges.
• Proactively provoke renewal of contracts earlier than their expiry.
• Help within the identification of recent service suppliers/suppliers.
• Perform different procurement associated duties as requested by the Provide Supervisor.

3.  Safe compliance with established UNICEF Monetary guidelines & rules to take care of the very best degree of integrity, requirements, and accountability.              

• Guarantee a procurement plan is ready and up to date for every Part.
• Make sure that contracts are in place due to aggressive bidding workouts, in a well timed method and in accordance with UNICEF Monetary guidelines & rules and procurement tips and processes.
• Keep efficient working relations and call with the Provide Division, Copenhagen, to confer on procurement insurance policies, procedures, and steerage. Advise the inner prospects on insurance policies and procedures.

4. Make sure that efficient assist to UNICEF and Authorities capacity-building efforts are supplied to boost environment friendly, efficient and well timed provide supply,

• Plan, design and conduct coaching for UNICEF’s employees/consultants and counterparts in provide administration, customs clearance, distribution and stock administration of provides and gear so as to maximize provide supply.
• Present efficient teaching to the employees/consultants as required.
• Promote/drive provide chain strengthening and alter administration initiatives with governments and companions, to make sure environment friendly and efficient provide chains for kids.
• Promote essential pondering, revolutionary approaches, and good practices on provide chain administration throughout the group in addition to with externals to make sure efficient and environment friendly provide chains for kids

5. Collaboration and Partnership

• Present recommendation to the Nation Workplace, Authorities and implementing companions on offshore and/or native procurement insurance policies and procedures, supply and utilization of UNICEF provides and gear; coordinate with the Provide Division, Copenhagen, on provide coverage and/or actions.
• Present provide enter to donor dialogue, and assist growth of provide of money providers elements of proposals to donors together with budgeting and use of revolutionary financing mechanisms for provides and providers.
• Assist evaluation of and collaboration with implementing companions together with civil society, institution of Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCAs), and monitoring of provide elements beneath Harmonized Strategy to Money Transfers (HACT).
• Develop and keep partnership and collaborative relations with Authorities, UN organizations and bilateral counterparts in contracting for providers actions together with harmonized and collaborative procurement.

To qualify as a Champion for each little one you’ll have: 

• Superior college Diploma in Enterprise Administration, Administration, Economics, Provide Chain Administration, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Industrial Regulation, Worldwide Growth, Well being or associated social science area, or related first-level college diploma (Bachelor’s) with extra 2 years of expertise is required. 
• A minimal of 5 (5) years of related expertise, on the nationwide and worldwide ranges, in provide, logistics, procurement, contracting, administration and/or different immediately associated technical fields is required. Understanding of growth and humanitarian work.
• Emergency expertise is required. 
• Expertise in managing complicated and excessive worth institutional contracts is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.  Information of one other official UN language is an asset.

For extra info on the precise technical experience wanted, kindly go to the beneath JD.

 Contracts Specialist P3 JD.pdf

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

The purposeful competencies required for this submit are:

• Formulating methods and ideas (II)
• Analyzing (II)
• Making use of technical experience (II)
• Studying and researching (II)
• Planning and Organizing (II)

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Individuals (2)
• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to attain impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

In the course of the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. 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:

This place isn’t thought-about an elevated danger function. Nonetheless, UNICEF reserves the proper to conduct additional vetting/evaluation throughout the scope of kid safeguarding as acceptable.

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is essential to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate females are inspired to use.

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

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which can be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or needed inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

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