The Position: The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Procurement Officer who will be a member of the Supply Chain team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
General: The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 research centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, and Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China). www.ilri.org.
Job Purpose:
The Procurement Officer will support ILRI’s critical factor (Fit for Purpose) via purchasing cost effective and timely goods/services used by ILRI in order to achieve its overall mandate of ensuring food sustainability via livestock.
Key Duties & responsibilities:
· Proactively coordinate the tendering process by compiling a bidding document for both goods and services, ensuring that the process follows best practice and ILRI’ tender policies;
· Manage the service procurement and administer the contract tracking sheet periodically
· Organize and lead service level agreement reviews with the service provider, document the meeting minute and follow up on action points
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Experience:
Training:
Knowledge, Skills and Personal qualities required
Duty Station: Addis Ababa
Grade: 2D
Minimum Base Salary: Birr 21,825 (Negotiable depending on experience, skill and salary history of
the candidate)
Terms of appointment: This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position, initial appointment is for three years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and the availability of funding. The ILRI remuneration package for nationally recruited staff in Ethiopia includes very competitive salary and benefits such as life and medical insurance, offshore pension plan, etc. The ILRI campus is set in a secure, attractive campus with dining and sports facilities.
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