Project
The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services
Junior Procurement Officer
Position
Junior Procurement Officer
Project description
The Republic of the Marshall Islands requested assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a social protection project with the outcome of increasing skills, empowerment and resilience of vulnerable women and at-risk young people. The Women and Youth, Skills, Empowerment, and Resilience Project will be considered by the ADB Board of Directors in November 2024. The project is estimated to cost $21.84 million. The Government of the Marshall Islands has requested a grant not exceeding $19.70 million from ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) Special Funds resources to help finance the project, including $13.7 million from the ADF 13 thematic pool, under its strategic area on achieving the sustainable
development goal 5 transformative gender agenda. The Ministry of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services (MOFBPS) is the executing agency for the project and the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs (MOCIA) is the implementing agency.
The project is aligned with the following impacts: (i) an enabling and sustainable environment built where all youth develop their full capacity and contribute meaningfully to sustainable development (National Youth Policy 2021–2025); and (ii) gender equality and the empowerment of women progressed, with the meaningful involvement and contributions of all development sectors and civil society (National Gender Mainstreaming Policy). The project will have the following outcome: vulnerable women’s and youth’s skills, resilience, and empowerment increased. There will be three outputs:
Job description
The national procurement officers will support MOCIA to ensure that all aspects of the project procurement processes are set up and operating effectively and conduct knowledge transfer to staff in the MOCIA procurement unit. Key tasks include but are not limited to the following:
• prepare and update supplementary project procurement guidelines;
• help to design and implement all procurement activities required under the project;
• ensure that all project procurement record templates are set up and working effectively;
• prepare procurement reports as required;
• update the procurement plan annually;
• support the design of the annual training plan;
• support budgeting, milestone approval, payment requests and reporting activities for the project, using ADB systems and in partnership with MOCIA and MOFBPS relevant procurement departments; and
• transfer skills and knowledge to MOCIA procurement staff.
Requirements
• Degree in engineering, economics, procurement or related field
• At least 7 years of general work experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in supporting procurement activities.
• Previous work experience working within a multinational team is desired.
• Written and spoken fluency in English language is essential
Additional information
The assignment is planned for 60 person months.
Marshall Islands
Attachments
Duration of assignment
01/04/2025 - 31/10/2030
Deadline for applications
30/09/2024
Job type
long term
Job status
prequalification
Project reference
24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women