{"id":84240,"date":"2020-03-10T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=84240"},"modified":"2020-03-10T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:00:05","slug":"african-development-bank-group-afdb-recent-ongoing-recruitment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/african-development-bank-group-afdb-recent-ongoing-recruitment-3.html","title":{"rendered":"African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Recent Ongoing Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African Development Bank Group (AfDB) &#8211; Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries).<\/p>\n<p>The Bank\u2019s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. We are\u00a0recruiting\u00a0to fill the position\u00a0below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title: Director, General Services and Procurement, CHGS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong> ADB\/20\/026<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Abidjan, Cote\u00a0d&#8217;Ivoire<br \/>\n<strong>Grade:<\/strong> EL5<br \/>\n<strong>Position N\u00b0:<\/strong> 50092470<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Complex<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Vice-Presidency, Human Resources and Corporate Services ensures the delivery of efficient, people-centered, client-oriented, corporate services to ensure overall institutional effectiveness in all aspects of the Bank\u2019s corporate services.<\/li>\n<li>The complex leads efforts to digitalize and transform the Bank into a knowledge-driven workforce, promote human resources policies that enhance talent, drive a performance-driven culture, and ensure the competitiveness of the Bank as the employer of choice.<\/li>\n<li>The complex ensures that all Human Resources and Corporate Services\u00a0are re-aligned to drive greater corporate performance and execution of the Bank&#8217;s strategic vision and priorities. The complex\u00a0is responsible for providing\u00a0leadership in the formulation and implementation of Bank\u2019s strategies on people, IT, General services and institutional procurements, Language Services, business continuity and, health and safety strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Hiring Department:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The primary roles of the\u00a0of\u00a0the General Services and Procurement department are to manage the Bank\u2019s assets, oversee all corporate procurement of goods, services, work and real estate, coordinate all staff travel and transport of Bank\u2019s goods and staff, catering services and other logistics arrangements and the mail services and keep staff informed about services offered.<\/li>\n<li>To this end the\u00a0General Services and Procurement department\u00a0formulates\u00a0and applies rules for procurement, storage, and maintenance of furniture, office equipment and supply; design, prepare and implement programmes for the construction or acquisition and maintenance of buildings and premises;\u00a0formulate\u00a0and ensure the proper and effective application of administration policies within the Bank in such areas as communications, transport, travels, security, protection and safety of the Bank\u2019s staff and property; and perform related duties.<\/li>\n<li>The department\u00a0is responsible for managing\u00a0the Bank\u2019s fixed assets (valued at over 100,000,000 Units of Account). The General Services and Procurement department comprises 3 divisions supervised by the Director General Services and Procurement. These divisions are: (i). Operations and Maintenance Division; (ii). Corporate Procurement Division; and (iii). Support Services Division.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Position<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Director,\u00a0General Services and Procurement department reports to the Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services and is key to the attainment of the Bank\u2019s transformative agenda for Africa through ensuring that there is adequate management of the Bank\u2019s administrative affairs and assets management.<\/li>\n<li>Notably: (i) the optimization of the Bank institutional procurement and expenses; (iii) cost benefit analysis on\u00a0some of the\u00a0Bank services such buy \/ construct vs\u00a0lease, negotiation of services such as travel and hotels catering, cleaning, transport, insurance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Duties and Responsibilities<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Director\u00a0is responsible for developing\u00a0a strategic approach to defining, planning, organizing, coordinating and leading the activities of the Department. His\/her duties include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead the effective delivery of the General Services and Procurement department work and budget programming;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure the effective budget resources management with the\u00a0objective\u00a0of cost saving;<\/li>\n<li>Lead the institutional procurement planning, control and implementation\u00a0of\u00a0 all\u00a0corporate activities relating to works, goods, services, contracts and insurance, ensuring that staff\u00a0are empowered\u00a0with a clear focus\u00a0on clients\u2019 orientation and results;<\/li>\n<li>Develop the\u00a0AfDB\u00a0Real Estate Development Strategy (including the Headquarters, Regional and Country Offices) and implement deriving annual implementation plans;<\/li>\n<li>Drive efficiencies to achieve increased effectiveness in service delivery and in the acquisition\u00a0and\u00a0 management\u00a0of works, goods and services, ensuring value for money of all corporate activities of the General Services and Procurement department;<\/li>\n<li>Lead\u00a0the\u00a0 development\u00a0and implementation of policies,\u00a0 procedures and processes for procurement of works, goods and services;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that\u00a0the Key Performance Indicators set for the department are met;<\/li>\n<li>Lead the General Services and Procurement management team by leading the strategic staffing of the department to ensure\u00a0appropriate\u00a0skills mix, regularly assessing the management team and overseeing overall performance management and outcomes of the department, and the learning needs of the department with the support of the Human Resources Department;<\/li>\n<li>Promote the Gender strategy by ensuring that the Bank is a safe place for women to work by making available provision of gender-related equipment in all Bank\u2019s offices premises;<\/li>\n<li>Lead\u00a0offices\u00a0space planning and management of assets to support the Bank\u2019s the decentralization strategy;<\/li>\n<li>Lead the development and implementation of policies,\u00a0 procedures and processes for management of Bank\u2019s Assets including the operation and maintenance of Bank properties (Bank real estate at HQ and in the Bank\u2019s country offices),\u00a0 inventories\u00a0etc;<\/li>\n<li>Lead the development and implementation of policies,\u00a0 procedures and processes relating to Bank vehicles, travel and shipment;<\/li>\n<li>Lead the development and implementation of policies,\u00a0 procedures and processes relating to the disposal of Bank Assets;<\/li>\n<li>Lead the work program and resources programming related to the Bank\u2019s mailing and restaurants services;<\/li>\n<li>Oversee the implementation of corporate plans for\u00a0the\u00a0 Headquarters\u00a0building;<\/li>\n<li>Lead and monitor the change management to ensure that\u00a0the ultimate goal of the Bank is met\u00a0and propose or recommend any corrective measures;<\/li>\n<li>Perform other related duties such as participation in various standing committees\u2019 meetings such as Capital Investment Steering Committee,\u00a0 Annual Meeting Committee, Purchasing Committee,\u00a0and\u00a0 Board\u00a0meetings dealing with matters related to the Department\u2019s function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selection Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hold at least a Master&#8217;s degree or its equivalent in\u00a0Engineering,\u00a0Management, Business Administration or closely related disciplines;<\/li>\n<li>Have a minimum\u00a0of\u00a0 ten\u00a0(10) years of relevant extensive and progressive experience in the private sector or an internationally recognized Financial or development Institution similar to the Bank, five (5) years of professional experience should be at a managerial level;<\/li>\n<li>Have solid professional experience in Assets management (real estate, facilities, warehouse, fixed\u00a0assets,etc.), procurement of works, goods and services, contracts management and purchasing, air travel services management (vehicle and air);<\/li>\n<li>Have a professional qualification in asset management, facility management, project management or procurement will\u00a0be an added\u00a0advantage\u00a0as well as\u00a0competence in\u00a0the use of\u00a0ERP Systems (preferably SAP) and software relevant to project administration (share point) and standard Microsoft Suite of applications such as Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint;<\/li>\n<li>Strong managerial skills, including interpersonal communication and client-orientation;<\/li>\n<li>Ability to undertake sound analysis (skills and methods),\u00a0in order\u00a0to conceptualize future work or organizational changes and develop strategies for change which includes strategic mind-set and capacity to translate strategic thinking into a compelling plan of action of a large international institution;<\/li>\n<li>Ability to build partnerships with a broad range of clients and deliver results that meet the needs and\u00a0long term\u00a0interests of clients within and outside the institution;<\/li>\n<li>Ability to develop a successful leadership style to establish and achieve exceptional organization performance and the ability to handle multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced environment;<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated\u00a0ability to ensure the timely accomplishment of tasks in the Department by giving valuable advice and providing constructive feedback;<\/li>\n<li>Ability to build and lead a motivated and committed team across functional boundaries and\u00a0utilize\u00a0talent and expertise of team members\u00a0in a productive way;<\/li>\n<li>Strong interpersonal skills. Capacity to influence and inspire confidence;<\/li>\n<li>Excellent written and verbal communications skills in French or English with a good working knowledge of the other language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To Apply<\/strong><br \/>\nInterested and qualified candidates should:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afdb.org\/en\/vacancies\/director-general-services-and-procurement-chgs-34573\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to apply online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline:\u00a0<\/strong>2nd\u00a0April, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This position is classified international status and attracts international terms and conditions of employment<\/li>\n<li>Should you encounter technical difficulties in submitting your application, please\u00a0send an\u00a0email with a precise description of the issue and \/ or a screenshot showing the problem, to HR Direct via:\u00a0HRDirect@AFDB.ORG<\/li>\n<li>To apply for this position, you need to be\u00a0national\u00a0of one of\u00a0AfDB\u00a0member countries.<\/li>\n<li>Applicants who fully meet the Bank&#8217;s requirements and\u00a0are considered\u00a0for\u00a0interview\u00a0will\u00a0be contacted.<\/li>\n<li>Only online applications submitted with a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV) and\u00a0copies of the required degrees will be considered. The President,\u00a0AfDB, reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level. The African Development Bank is an equal opportunities employer.\u00a0Female candidates are strongly encouraged\u00a0to apply.<\/li>\n<li>The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) does not ask for payments of any kind from applicants throughout the recruitment process (job application, CV review, interview meeting, and final processing of applications). In addition, the Bank does not request information on applicants\u2019 bank accounts. The African Development Bank Group declines all responsibility for the fraudulent publications of job offers in its name or, in general,\u00a0for the fraudulent use of its name in any way\u00a0whatsoever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Development Bank Group (AfDB) &#8211; Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. 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