Associate Procurement Officer, 2012 - Current

International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group (WBG),

Responsibilities

1. Developing Procurement Strategy:

· Conduct annual spend and risk analysis across the region

· Draft regional procurement strategy for IFC Procurement Unit’s (CBAPC)

· Develop procurement plans in liaison with task teams and stakeholders

· Assist CBAPC in developing, updating and implementing procurement strategy, policies and procedures

· Identify operational gaps in procurement and contract management procedures and recommend improvements to achieve operational efficiency

· Keep abreast of WBG procurement policies and procedures and ensure they are communicated and implemented.

· Assess procurement capability of clients to handle procurement executed by IFC
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2. Supporting the Procurement Selection Process:

· Provide clearances to operational procurements within certain thresholds

· Provide guidance to staff responsible for administrative procurements.

· Review selections and provide advice to mitigate the risk of mis-procurement

· Assist staff in identifying potential conflict of interests (COIs) and guide further

· Act as a point of reference for eConsultant2 system for non-technical issues
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3. Training and Sharing Knowledge:

· Develop annual procurement training plan for the region based on the needs

· Develop need-based training modules and conduct procurement trainings.

· Raise awareness on selection process and contract management issues by sharing various challenges and lessons learned.

· Keep abreast of new information shared via SharePoint and IFC Procurement website.
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4. Monitoring compliance and reporting:

· Monitor compliance issues and escalate the non-compliance matters to CBAPC.

· Review and interpret regional procurement data for CBAPC

· Prepare procurement reports and provide CBAPC with analytics as needed.

· Ensure that the region has streamlined process for contract issuance

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Procurement Analyst, 2003- 2012

International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group

Responsibilities:

· Conduct routine reviews of procurement selections in compliance with procurement guidelines to yield expected outcome.

·  Advise task teams in monitoring project procurements and clearance processes.

·  Analyze data and advise task teams in carrying out procurement transactions

·  Develop standard procurement correspondences and templates.

·  Provides a first level recommendations on bidding process and documentations

·  Guide task teams in responding to bidders’ questions in the event of solicitation

·  Develops training modules and conduct need based procurement trainings.

·  Help facilitate inquiries on contract status using SAP.

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Procurement Assistant, 1999- 2003

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), World Bank Group

Responsibilities:

·  Track procurement transaction flow and monitor procurement actions pending

·  Provide extracted data and information for procurement workshops and training.

·  Maintain procurement records and assist the users in retrieving pertinent information

·  Provides statistical inputs from the system to develop quarterly procurement reports

·  Draft standard routine correspondences for the clearance of procurement transaction

·  Update database on mis-procurement, post review contracts and trainings, etc.

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Program Officer, Health & Population Unit, 1996 - 1999

Responsibilities:

·  Assist in updating project disbursement profile to reflect changes in forecast and expenditure for Council managed projects.

·  Prepare local contracts for professional and support staff

·  Manage in-country consultancy administration in liaison with the project team leaders.

·  Manage annual country training specifications contract implementation including management of training awards.

·  Implementation of contracted activities including delegated responsibility for management of ad-hoc contracts ensuring services are delivered as contracted

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Program Administrator, Health & Population Unit, 1995 - 1996

Responsibilities:

·  Preparation and implementation of in-country training courses and workshops

· Coordination with in coming short-term consultant to the field. 

· Responsibility for the overall administration of training awards, this includes:

· Liaise with partner institutions to keep them informed of the training award progress.

· Carryout initial interviews and screening of candidates’ nomination in line with BritishCouncil (BC)/DFID requirements for clearances

· Prepare formal BC application, monitoring the progress of confirmed placement

· Prepare formal offer letter and arrange individual briefings providing documentation for required clearance from the concerned departments.

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Assistant Administration Officer, 1992 - 1995

Responsibilities:

· Supervise office administration and management

· Maintain all international and local correspondences

· Responsible for invoicing and payments

· Collect and analyze data/information for the ongoing project

· Maintain books of accounts

· Maintain and supervision of project vehicles