New Job Vacancy at World Bank Group (WBG) Tanzania – Senior Procurement Specialist & Procurement Hub Coordinator
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Job #: req12088
Organization: World Bank
Sector: Procurement
Grade: GG
Term Duration: 3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type: International Recruitment
Location: Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania
Required Language(s): English
Preferred Language(s):
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Description
Do
you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the
World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our
clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank
Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for
developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions
dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and
promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more
than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector
partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research,
and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global
challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
Governance Global Practice Context
The
Governance Global Practice (GGP) helps developing countries build
capable, efficient, open, inclusive, and accountable institutions that
can support economic growth, reduce poverty, deliver needed services and
earn the confidence of citizens! Our work encompasses public financial
management, public procurement, civil service reform, open government,
anti-corruption, and using technology to improve quality and access to
government services. More information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/governance
Procurement
The
Global Directorate for Procurement (EPRDR) convenes a leading group of
practitioners focused on advancing cutting-edge practices and
innovations in the field of procurement. In that context, the
Directorate supports governments and non-governmental actors in
institutional strengthening and capacity building, improvement and
modernization of procurement systems and ensuring efficiency of
transactions for improved governance and enhanced development outcomes.
The Directorate advances these efforts across sectors and regions.
THE KEY THEMES OF THE SIP GROUP ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• Provide technical advice on procurement fiduciary activities and lead policy dialogue on procurement with client countries.
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Support client countries in achieving value for money in public
procurement and Bank funded operations in order to enhance service
delivery and development outcomes with integrity.
• Create the space for procurement/governance innovation to happen.
•
Establish proactive processes to identify and deploy knowledge to solve
specific problems, and improve development outcomes in client
countries.
•Facilitate and join global platforms to share knowledge and practices across the world.
Africa East and Southern Region (AFE) of the Solutions and Innovations
in Procurement (SIP) Department of GGP seeks to recruit a Senior
Procurement Specialist and Procurement Hub Coordinator to be based in
Dar es Salaam– Tanzania. The Procurement Hub Coordinator (Hub Leader)
function is to Lead, Supervise and provide Support to procurement teams
in the delivery of procurement fiduciary and service functions to the
Bank’s portfolio with prompt, consistent, sound advices in the review
and clearances of procurement documents and decisions under
Bank-financed projects, in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
An
important part of the Hub Leader responsibility is to lead Bank’s
dialogue with the Government authorities on the development of the
national public procurement systems and the procurement capacity
development initiatives.
The Hub Leader frequently interacts
with Procurement Manager’s office (APM) and CMU management; government
officials; international organizations, partner entities and coordinates
across the practices; sector networks; INT; and regional Public Sector
Management and Financial Management specialists.
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DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
A
Procurement Hub Coordinator/Country Team Leader (Hub Leader) function
is to Lead, Supervise and provide Support to procurement teams in the
delivery of procurement fiduciary and service functions to the Bank’s
portfolio with prompt, consistent, sound advices in the review and
clearances of procurement documents and decisions under Bank-financed
projects, in their hub countries.
An important part of the Hub
Leader responsibility is to lead Bank’s dialogue with the Government
authorities on the development of the national public procurement
systems and the procurement capacity development initiatives.
The
Hub Leader frequently interacts with Procurement Manager’s office (APM)
and CMU management; government officials; international organizations,
partner entities and coordinates across the practices; sector networks;
INT; and regional Public Sector Management and Financial Management
specialists.
Specific roles and responsibility of hub leaders are below:
1 Leadership Role
• Provide procurement clearances and perform other duties on behalf of APM as delegated.
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Provide coaching, advice and mentorship to the procurement team and
help achieve individual business and professional development
objectives.
• Monitor the performance and workload of the procurement team and coordinate back-up arrangements.
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Provide leadership in the monitoring of procurement and disbursement
plans implementation. Reaching out across Governance practice, Program
Leaders, Operations Officers and key staff in other GPs to help teams to
understand how procurement can be a force for better governance.
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Conduct procurement and contract data analytics in Hub countries and
disseminate evidence-based information about the impact of public
procurement in the context of the political economy e.g. analytics on
value of contracts (including non-procurement activities) going to
national firms and individuals versus international contracts and
relating the analysis to private sector development and job creation by
approaching the national markets.
• Interact with Bank senior management and participate in relevant meetings.
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Provide support to APM in coordination with other Procurement Hub
leaders for the successful delivery of the their work program.
• Provide team leadership for work on specific procurement topics across the Region and the Bank.
Coordinate the procurement upstream involvement in project preparation
and implementation of country partnership frameworks for the hub
countries.
• Effectively coordinate Procurement Specialists work in the hub countries.
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Identify generic country key procurement issues, risks and
recommendation and ensure CMUs address them by their inclusion in CPF,
SCD, IPFs, PforRs and DPOs, as applicable.
• Engage with the CMU for appropriate budgetary allocations through WPA.
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Bring to the attention of the country teams and APM, key procurement
issues that affect WPA delivery in a timely manner and coordinate to
ensure that the issues are appropriately addressed.
• Participate in
review meetings for projects in the hub countries and ensure that risks
and appropriate mitigation measures are identified and included in
PPSDs, PADs and FAs.
• Dialogue with Governments, Task Teams and
CMUs to ensure that funds are allocated within the loans/credits/grants
for third party procurement and value for money audits.
• Conduct quality assurance of input to PRAMS and PPSDs for projects in the hub countries.
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Provide quality assurance for reports generated by field Procurement
Specialists and Consultants, (i.e. PCDs, PADs, FAs and ASAs).
Assist the APM to ensure that all required procurement clearances are
provided by procurement certified or accredited staff or consultant.
Implementation Support to Ongoing Programs and Projects
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Ensure that post procurement and third-party procurement audits in
projects are carried out, reports are reviewed and proactive and timely
actions are taken to address identified weaknesses/noncompliance.
Consult with the APM on the noncompliance cases.
• Supervise and
clear APSs’ timely updates of PRAMS as required and monitor consistent
and timely use of all relevant procurement systems.
• Assist APM in ensuring that PRAMS are prepared by procurement certified and accredited consultants or staff.
• Cross check of procurement risk rating in PARMS with activity risks in STEP and ISR procurement risk rating.
• Regularly monitor ISR ratings to ensure Procurement inputs are well recorded.
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Lead dialogue with the government on RAS initiatives and provide
leadership and guidance for the implementation of procurement-related
ASA, RAS activities and components.
• Supervise procurement in PforR.
• Provide quality assurance for APSs’ reviews of large and complex procurement packages in the hub countries.
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Introduce innovation and apply broader flexibility and educate Task
Teams on available options to deal with such complex operations.
• Provide leadership for APSs’ and Task teams’ involvement on INT cases in all of the hub countries.
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Monitor Volcker Trigger projects procurement risk assessment and guide
teams to design appropriate mitigation measures in the PAD.
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Provide leadership in the organization of the annual result-based
procurement planning clinics for the portfolios in the hub countries.
• Review and clear procurement packages on behalf of APM (if delegated)) for any of the hub countries.
• Provide quality assurance and advise to task teams for contracts at OPRC level and seek APM concurrence.
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Regularly monitor procurement plans in STEP to ensure that cleared
activities are in compliance with mandatory prior review thresholds.
Take an appropriate action and ensure to seek required approvals for
activities with below or above mandatory prior review thresholds.
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Regularly monitor, ensure quality and timely input of required
information and contracts data available for post review contracts in
STEP.
• Monitor and ensure that contract awards are published
specially for contracts subject to post reviews as per Procurement
Regulation 5.93.
• Assist the APM to ensure that there is no
procurement clearance is provided in or outside STEP by consultants or
staff who are not certified and accredited.
Coordinate procurement inputs to the preparation including WPA budget
allocation and WPA execution, alert CMU management, in coordination with
APM, on key procurement issues that affect WPA delivery and coordinate
corrective actions.
• Coordinate procurement inputs to the preparation and implementation of country partnership frameworks for the Hub countries.
• Provide leadership in the context of fiduciary, including APA, and country procurement assessments.
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Join SCD/CPF discussions to reflect procurement challenges and provide
inputs to improve portfolio procurement and public procurement.
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Coordinate procurement inputs and the monitoring of key procurement
risks in Country Portfolio Performance Reviews and other relevant
reviews in Hub countries.
• Coordinate training clinics and programs to Borrowers including the use of STEP.
• Provide leadership and support to procurement team to leverage training and knowledge sharing through implementation support.
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Lead procurement capacity building initiatives including the
development and dissemination of relevant knowledge products, tools,
methodologies, guidelines and lessons learned along the full procurement
cycle.
• Develop capacity of Supreme Audit Institutions and
Procurement Regulatory Agencies in the Hub countries to carry out PPR’s
and procurement audits in the Bank financed projects.
• Lead a
dialogue and coordinate to build capacity of country Supreme Audit
Institutions/Procurement Regulatory Agencies in the Hub countries to
carry out Procurement audits/post reviews in Bank financed Projects.
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Lead a dialogue with universities/vocational training centers, and
private Institutions to develop a curriculum on procurement and contract
management for both public and private sector including policy makers
in the hub countries.
Effective coaching, guidance and mentorship is provided to APSs in the
Hub countries in the delivery of ad-hoc clinics and advice to clients,
task teams, and the private sector operators.
• Support the APSs in the hub countries on their performance; and appropriate learning plan.
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Considering the business need of country portfolio, discuss with APM
any specific training needs for staff development in the hub countries
on a timely basis.
• Promote professionalization of procurement function.
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Encourage APS to write short blogs or stories to showcase the work on
some of the innovative and new approaches to procurement and contract
management, work on systems and capacity development, including the
results achieved under RAS, if any.
• Ensure that a one-page flyer
is prepared for each capacity building event for internal and external
clients and sent to Global Director office for posting on the
procurement hub; consolidate data and information on capacity building
events as well as impact of these events.
• Ensure that MAPS assessment progressed on time and provide quality assurance and advices.
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Act as a regional e-GP coordinator and lead a dialogue with the
government and the CMU on e-GP initiatives in hub countries to ensure
the adoption of a sound e-GP at country level.
• Promote innovations
in capacity development, Open Contracting, citizen engagement in public
procurement etc. through components in IPFs, DPFs, P4Rs etc.
• Work
with the Governance team and other sectors; develop strong client
relationships; proactively coordinate with Development Partners on
procurement capacity and country procurement systems development, and
leverage funding arrangements.
• Participate in implementation supervision mission of projects with PFM components in the hub countries.
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Selection Criteria
•
MA/MS (an advanced degree with a major relevant discipline, e.g.
Engineering, Law, Procurement, Finance, Business and Commerce) and
minimum of 8 years relevant experience in carrying out technical duties
in procurement and contract management.
• State-of-the-art knowledge
of public procurement principles, systems, process and planning, and
approaches to international procurement with proven ability to
independently provide well researched analyses of complex procurement
issues and problems.
• Seasoned knowledge and specialized command
of all major facets of Bank procurement policies and practices as
applied across a wide range of Bank lending operations at all phases of
the project cycle, and ability to address broader issues at
sector/country level.
• Understanding of Bank operational policies and practices related to project/sector work.
• Seasoned knowledge of public procurement systems including legal framework and institutions.
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Good understanding of critical linkages and relationships among
clients’ business drivers, business operations and objectives and
Procurement processes.
• Proven ability to conceptualize, design and implement major project procurements.
• Ability to promote client commitment to ensuring implementation and longer-term sustainability of projects/programs.
• Demonstrable experience in leading discussions with top government functionaries on public procurement reforms.
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Strong communication skills and persuasiveness in presenting,
negotiating and resolving highly complex issues, both orally and in
writing.
• Ability to identify complex issues and to respond and
handle; accordingly, does not add unnecessary complexity to tasks or
projects.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix management environment, both as a team leader and team member.
• Ability to lead a team of professionals in the execution of major projects.
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Ability to deal sensitively in multi-cultural environments and build
effective working relations with clients and colleagues.
•
Knowledge and working experience with design and implementation of
e-Government Procurement Systems and Knowledge will be an added
advantage.
• Language Requirement: English (essential).
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Additional information to Applicants:
Only
short-listed candidates will be contacted. Qualified male and female
candidates of diverse background (gender, religious, education, ethnic
etc.) are encouraged to apply.
Poverty has no borders, neither
does excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we
continuously search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds
from around the globe.
Poverty has no borders, neither does
excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we continuously
search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds from around
the globe.
Closing Date: 6/15/2021 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
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