Projet

The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services

Junior Procurement Officer

Poste de travail

Junior Procurement Officer

Description du projet

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:

  • Output 1: Climate-resilient infrastructure assets for women and youth upgraded and expanded.
  • Output 2: Women’s and youth’s skills for livelihood improvement enhanced.
  • Output 3: Capacity of government and civil society organizations to implement women’s and youth empowerment activities strengthened.

Description de poste

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.

Conditions requises

• 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

Informations supplémentaires

The assignment is planned for 60 person months.

 Marshall (Iles)

Pièces jointes

Durée de la mission

01/04/2025 - 31/10/2030

Date limite de dépôt des candidatures

30/09/2024

Type d'emploi

long terme

Statut de travail

préqualification

Référence de projet

24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women

Demande d'emploi

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