Practice Manager, Procurement, AFE

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For more information, visit www.worldbank.org Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) Region: Home to about 700 million people, Eastern and Southern Africa is a geographically, culturally and economically diverse region of 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/eastern-and-southern-africa The Region has been helping countries realize their considerable development potential by focusing on key priorities with the end goal of promoting quality jobs for its growing working age population. Towards that end, the Region has prioritized macroeconomic stability, expanding access to power, digital development, agriculture, water and sanitation, and human capital. The Region is looking for dedicated professionals to join our dynamic and diverse team. We need the best and brightest talent to bring innovative ideas, global solutions, and strong partnerships to harness the potential of the people in our client countries. EAEDR-Departmental context: The Prosperity Africa East department (EAE) consists of 260+ staff of which over two-thirds are decentralized in country offices. Prosperity AFE is led by the Regional Practice Director (RPD) who is supported by the management team including 9 Practice Managers from all Prosperity GPs (FCI, Governance, Procurement, Economic Policy, and Poverty and Equity) covering the 6 Country Management Units (CMUs) in the AFE region. The department has a strong and growing lending pipeline. EAE teams also work on delivering a rich program of strategic ASAs. A hallmark of the staff’s work is their collaboration across PGs, GPs, and organizational units to provide integrated solutions for our clients. The major focus of the department’s work is on inclusive growth and resilience through addressing economic policy distortions, promoting private sector development, strengthening governance, and ensuring equity. In addition, the fiduciary teams within EAEDR provide critical support across the large volume of AFE operations. Within the Africa East Vice Presidency, Prosperity is seeking to recruit an outstanding Procurement Practice Manager based in Nairobi, Kenya. The unit covers countries under Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania CMUs in the Africa East Region The remaining three CMUs (South Africa, Mozambique, and DRC) are managed by another Procurement Practice Manager based in Pretoria, South Africa. The two Procurement PMs collaborate closely to ensure knowledge exchange, effectiveness, and consistency of operations across the region. The Unit will play a major role within the countries of the three CMUs in supporting governments and non-governmental actors in institutional strengthening and capacity building, improvement and modernization of procurement systems and ensuring efficiency of transactions for improved governance and enhanced development outcomes. Duties and Accountabilities The Practice Manager will collaborate across technical, geographic, and institutional boundaries to help design and deliver development solutions to a diverse range of clients, while supporting global knowledge flows that share knowledge and practical development experience with other countries, assuring that lessons from outside the region are reflecting in the Bank-supported programs. The PM is a member of the Prosperity Eastern and Southern Africa Leadership Team and coordinates closely with the other Procurement PM, other Practice Managers of the Prosperity Department, and the Regional Management Team. The PM is also a member of the Procurement Global Practice Leadership Team which sets the strategic global direction of the GP, which includes membership in the Procurement Talent Board to oversee the strategic staffing, career development and deployment of GP staff across the Bank. The PM is responsible for the following areas: •Advising Regional management and teams on a broad range of procurement issues, related operational issues across sectors/sub-sectors and public procurement reform interventions. •Ensuring consistent application of the procurement policy in decisions, handle difficult reform dialogue, and play a key role in developing innovative and practical approaches to the preparation of operations, including those with significant public procurement components. •Overseeing successful implementation of the new Procurement Policy Framework. •Leading the development and implementation of strategies for national procurement reforms. •Creating space for innovation in public procurement and join global conversations to develop cutting-edge knowledge generation and sharing; and •Participating in Prosperity Regional and Global Management meetings. •Support client countries in achieving value for money in public procurement to enhance service delivery and development outcomes with integrity. •Create space for procurement/governance innovation. •Establish proactive processes to identify and deploy knowledge to solve specific problems, and improve development outcomes in client countries; and •Facilitate and join global platforms to share knowledge and practices across the world. •Advise Senior Management, Bank staff on strategy and a broad range of procurement issues, related operational issues across sectors/sub-sectors and public procurement reform interventions. •Ensure consistent application of the procurement policy in decisions, handle difficult reform dialogues, participate in groundbreaking initiatives, and play a key role in developing innovative and practical approaches to the preparation of operations, including those with significant public procurement components.