Title: Senior Officer, Procurement
Company Name: Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Supply Chain Management / Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 4 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ BLAST is a leading national legal aid and human rights organization providing legal advice, mediation, and litigation services, and undertaking advocacy to ensure the rights of women, men and children living in poverty or facing discrimination/social exclusion. BLAST works through its Head Office in Dhaka and 25 District-level Offices with 2600+ panel lawyers and 100+partner organizations.
∎ Position Description: BLAST is looking for a Senior Officer, Procurement for its Head Office, Dhaka. The Senior Officer, Procurement must be a highly motivated individual with a proven track record of work on Procurement. S/he will coordinate and lead/assist all type of Procurement activities.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Preparing and implementing monthly, quarterly and annual procurement plan and budget.
∎ Ensuring full compliance of procurement activities with BLAST procurement guidelines and other established policies as well as donors' rules and regulations.
∎ Set up procurement processes, monitoring systems and mechanisms to eliminate deficiencies in procurement.
∎ Reviewing and verifying all purchase orders for goods and contract services.
∎ Maintaining and update all procurement files and transaction matrices.
∎ Identifying logistical gaps and propose ways to fill in gaps.
∎ Direct and supervise stockroom management practices to ensure no overstocking and losses.
∎ Monitoring and tracking project asset inventories.
∎ Planning, organizing and leading the bid solicitation processes including preparing standard procurement documents for the procurement of goods and services.
∎ Ensuring all supporting documents in compliance of policy and procedures.
∎ Maintaining vendors' database to keep track of suppliers' particulars, pricing and goods / services information, and performances and identify potential suppliers and building approved suppliers list.
∎ Establishing good relationship with suppliers and keeping abreast of what are available from the market and needs of organisation.
∎ Reviewing, updating and building standardized contract terms for the procurement of various goods / services.
∎ Preparing and finalising tender documents, requests for proposals, and request for quotations.
∎ Training of BLAST staff, both at HQ and in the field, on BLAST Procurement Guidelines.
∎ Facilitating other Units to carry out procurement efficiently and in accordance with the BLAST Procurement Guidelines.
Additional Requirements:
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Administration & Procurement Management.
∎ Familiar with government and donor procurement policies & procedures.
∎ S/he must have good communication and IT skills.
∎ Minimum 4 years of working experience in administration/procurement.
∎ Must have vision and goal setting capacity, team building, counselling, independent decision making & problem-solving capacity, adaptability and strong leadership and strategic planning capability.
Salary:
∎ Negotiable
∎ Salary, Benefits and allowances: commensurate with experience and BLAST`s salary scale and policy, two festival bonuses equivalent to one month`s basic salary each payable after successful completion of 6 months` probation costs for fieldwork will be borne by BLAST according to its policies
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 27 May 2021
Company Information:
∎ 16 May 2021
∎ Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
∎ Address : YMCA Development Center, 1/1 Pioneer Road, Kakrail, Dhaka-1000.
∎ Web : www.blast.org.bd
∎ Business : BLAST is one of the leading legal services organizations in Bangladesh, and the only one that provides access to legal aid across the spectrum, from the frontlines of the formal justice system to the apex court. It prioritises support to women, men and children living in poverty or facing disadvantage or discrimination. It also provides legal aid, advice and representation across a range of areas, including civil, criminal, family, labour and land law, as well as on constitutional rights and remedies, providing access to judicial remedies alongside alternative dispute resolution wherever appropriate. Alongside individual legal aid, BLAST undertakes strategic litigation, or public interest litigation, as a key part of its advocacy for law and policy reforms to ensure effective legal protection of rights.
Category: NGO/Development
: Interested candidates are requested to apply online through www.bdjobs.com with a comprehensive curriculum vitae which includes names and contact details of two (2) professional referees who are familiar with the candidate's qualifications and work experience.Only short listed candidates will be invited for interview.PLEASE NOTE: if any candidate tries to contact anyone linked to BLAST to solicit for the position, they will be automatically disqualified.BLAST is an equal opportunities employer; women and individuals from marginalised communities in particular are encouraged to apply.To find out more about the organization, please visit www.blast.org.bd
Source: bdjobs.com