Crown Agents USA, Inc. (CA-USA) is seeking PROCUREMENT CAPACITY
BUILDING SPECIALISTS for upcoming MCA Indonesia donor-funded Procurement
Skills Training Delivery program.
Our Business
Crown Agents is an international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 12 countries, and permanent staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia Latin America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health systems strengthening.
Crown Agents USA (CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.
Role & Responsibilities As a member of a project team, and in coordination with multiple government stakeholders, consultants may support procurement-based human resource development by designing capacity building curriculums, instituting accreditation processes, and training procurement officers to a required level of professional knowledge, skill and attitude. This may include development of a mentoring program and introductory, intermediate and advanced training courses with competency-based certification.
In the process of development and delivery of the course program, consultants will develop procurement trainers, and course materials, including e-learning modules, to continue to build and sustain the professional procurement workforce in wide-ranging topics which may include procurement best practice processes and procedures, procurement performance monitoring and ex-post control and audit, public-private-partnerships, procurement and environmental sustainability, and public-private-partnerships.
Qualifications
Our Business
Crown Agents is an international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 12 countries, and permanent staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia Latin America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health systems strengthening.
Crown Agents USA (CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.
Role & Responsibilities As a member of a project team, and in coordination with multiple government stakeholders, consultants may support procurement-based human resource development by designing capacity building curriculums, instituting accreditation processes, and training procurement officers to a required level of professional knowledge, skill and attitude. This may include development of a mentoring program and introductory, intermediate and advanced training courses with competency-based certification.
In the process of development and delivery of the course program, consultants will develop procurement trainers, and course materials, including e-learning modules, to continue to build and sustain the professional procurement workforce in wide-ranging topics which may include procurement best practice processes and procedures, procurement performance monitoring and ex-post control and audit, public-private-partnerships, procurement and environmental sustainability, and public-private-partnerships.
Qualifications
- Highly skilled and experienced procurement professional that has significant knowledge and experience (minimum 10 years) in procurement capacity building and training and curriculum development
- Minimum Bachelor level degree.
- Fluent in English both oral and writing.
- Fluency in Bahasa highly desirable.
- Experience in Indonesia and/or the South East Asia region on a similar assignment is desired.
How to apply:
Application ProcessTo apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com, including your name, along with PROCUREMENT CAPACITY BUILDING SPECIALIST in the subject line.
Visit our website at www.crownagents.com for more information about our company. No phone calls, faxes or walk-ins please. Crown Agents USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and affords equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.
Crown Agents USA will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with qualified disabilities in accordance with the ADA. If you require a reasonable accommodation for our application process, please contact our Recruiting department directly. Requests will be kept confidential and shared strictly on a need-to-know basis only.
Closing date: 31 Dec 2014
