VACANT POSITION FOR HARMONIZING PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE CONSULTANT (1 POSITIONS)

VACANT POSITION FOR HARMONIZING PROCUREMENT PROCEDURE
CONSULTANT (1 POSITIONS)

The Government of Indonesia established an Aid for Development Effectiveness
Secretariat (A4DES) in the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) to move
forward, together with development partners, with implementation of the shared
agenda of enhancing development effectiveness as articulated in the Jakarta
Commitment. Under
leadership of the Deputy Minister for Development Funding, A4DES is responsible
for providing support in facilitation, coordination and monitoring of the
coordinated activities to realize the objectives of the Jakarta Commitment.
Objectives of Assignment
With the agreement of the Paris
Declaration, the GoI needs to immediately assess, prepare and strategize and
harmonization of procurement country procedures in line with the norms,
practices and standards provisions of the procurement of goods and services internationally
accepted without prejudice to the independence of national procurement systems.
WG Procurement has been established to encourage the achievement of
transparency, accountability and value for money in the use of Government
budget and in addition support the establishment of an effective procurement
system, which not only operates to deliver public goods/services but also
ensures value for money. Such improvements would support GoI in reaching the
standard that can be accepted internationally so that the system is able to be
used by development partners in aid effectiveness.

The
responsibilities of harmonising procurement procedure Consultant are:
·  Support WG Procurement on
harmonizing GOI procurement procedures (Perpres 54/2010) to comply with major
donors (World Bank, ADB, IFAD, USAID, JICA, IDB) procurement procedures
·  Develop
concept paper on gap analysis of procurement procedures and how to harmonize
procurement procedures
·  Provision of interim consultative
support on Procurement WG on procurement procedure harmonizing
·  Preparing all necessary written
reports related to consultation given

Scope of work:
The Harmonizing
Procurement Procedure Consultantshould submit his/her works and reports to A4DES
Program Coordinator  and chairman of WG Procurement. Duty station: Jakarta.

The Harmonizing
Procurement Procedure Consultant specific tasks are:
·  Identify
procurement issues on national procurement system (law, policy and mechanism)
which can be potentially conflict with major donor’s procurement procedures (World Bank,
ADB, IFAD, USAID, JICA, IDB)
·  Provide
consultative support on harmonizing the potential conflict issue of the
national procurement system with donors’ procurement guideline.
·  Consultation
with WG Procurement on harmonizing national procurement procedure with major
donors’ procurement guideline.
·  Write inception report of the analyzing of harmonizingnational procurement procedure with major donors.
·  Arrange
a group discussion between GoI and each donors

Requirements:
Corporate Competencies:
·  Demonstrates integrity;
·  Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality
and age sensitivity and adaptability;
·  Treats all people fairly without favouritism.

Functional Competencies:
·  Builds strong relationships with
programme counterparts, focuses on impact and result for the client and
responds positively to feedback;
·  Consistently approaches work with
energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
·  Demonstrates openness to change and
ability to manage complexities;
·  Demonstrates good people skills and
fosters conductive working environment with a multi-disciplinary and
multi-cultural team;
·  Demonstrates strong oral and written
communication and presentation skills;
·  Ability to work effectively under
highly demanding situations with minimum supervision:
·  Proven networking, team-building,
organizational and communication skills.
·  In-depth practical knowledge of
inter-disciplinary development issues, with particular knowledge or experience
of development in the aid effectiveness issues;
·  Actively works towards continuing
personal learning and development, acts on learning plan and applies newly
acquired skills;
·  Seeks and applies knowledge,
information, and best practices from within and outside of A4DES Proven
networking, team-building, organizational and communication skills.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Accounting/Engineering with
at least 5 years of relevant experience in procurement of goods and services;
an additional master’s degree in public policy will be an advantage.


Experience:
·Experience in donor/multilateral funded projects (World Bank,
ADB, IFAD, USAID, JICA, IDB).
·Experience
in Government of Indonesia procurement regulation (Perpres 54/2010).
·Understanding of Government of Indonesia and
donor/multilateral project implementation systems and networks with the
Executing and Implementing Agencies;
·Having
knowledge in Public Financial Management and its relationship with aid
effectiveness issues. Excellent conceptual and analytical ability geared
towards producing results within often short deadlines;
·Sound knowledge in the field of economic analysis, loan
policy  and budgetary system/procedures;
·Proven
ability to write reports in Indonesian and English and a track record of
publications;
·Working
experience in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment;
·Working
experience with GoI’s officers;

Language Requirements:
Fluency in
English with excellent writing and editing skills are requirements.


If you meet the minimum requirements
and are interested in applying, you should submit your comprehensive CV
electronically including salary history to dyah@a4des.org or dyah.pitaloka@undp.org. Other documentation is not required at this
time.

Closing date for applications is: October 3, 2011. We regret to announce
that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further process.