Procurement Senior AssistantNew

Provides administrative support for UNOPS procurement and contracting processes for goods, services and works in Myanmar. The senior assistant will prepare bidding and award documents, process purchase orders and invoices in OneUNOPS, track expenditure and work in progress, publish procurement notices, maintain reporting, and give clients timely guidance on routine procurement transactions.

• Draft bidding documents, evaluation reports and contract-award submissions
• Process procurement transactions in OneUNOPS
• Prepare purchase orders, contracts, long-term agreements and amendments
• Process invoices for delivered goods and services and follow up on payments
• Monitor expenditure against allocations and route procurement requests and invoices
• Prepare procurement reports, tables, charts and volume statistics
• Publish procurement advertisements and awards and maintain activity status reports
• Provide clients and personnel with information and guidance on routine procurement processes

• Secondary school education with 5 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's degree in any discipline with 1 year of relevant experience
• Relevant procurement or related experience
• Experience using MS Office, G-Suite and web-based management systems
• Fluent English and Burmese
• Open to UNOPS internal candidates and Myanmar nationals only

• Professional procurement certificate or membership such as CIPS
• Experience in multicultural environments or UN organizations in a developing country
• Experience in development or humanitarian contexts

• Procurement
• Contract management
• eProcurement
• Market analysis
• Risk management
• Purchase orders
• Invoice processing
• Supplier management

• OneUNOPS
• MS Office
• G-Suite