VVOB – education for development is an international non-profit organisation with over 40 years’ experience in strengthening the quality of education systems in Africa, Asia and South America in close partnership with ministries of education and their institutions.

When you joinVVOB,you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving sustainable development goals.We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education.Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors.In doing so, world wide we ensure the capacity building of governmental and other education actors.

VVOB is currently looking for anOperationsandProcurement Officerwho will provide qualityadministrativeandlogisticalsupporttoVVOBprojects.

Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!

The ambition of VVOB is to ensure learners around the world enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception. In striving for that ambition, we place our values of ‘commitment’, ‘integrity’, ‘respect’, ‘quality’ and ‘innovation’ central.

As an Operations and Procurement Officer you contribute to this ambition and these values by taking initiative whenever necessary to provide quality administrative and logistical support to VVOB projects.

For more information on VVOB in Rwanda and our programmes, please visit our website.

The operations and procurement Officer reports to the Operations Manager. You are part of and work closely together with members of the operations team in VVOB Rwanda.

Furthermore, you provide support to other departments and programmes in VVOB Rwanda.

If you’re our Operations Officer,your work week at the office will include the following highlights:

• You provide administrative and logistical support to VVOB projects on a need basis, including procurement of services, travel arrangements for field activities, arranging meeting venues and training materials, and communicating progress to relevant team members and external 
• You prepare budget and fund requests for project training activities together with the team and address them to the Operations 
• You ensure good project administration, and preparation of invitation letters, including managing project materials and supplies, file management (E-folders on MS TEAMS and SharePoint), and other related tasks and you indicate areas for improvement where 
• You support the procurement, logistics and administration of workshops and capacity-building activities for external partners.
• You  maintain a tracker of key action points agreed upon at project meetings and disseminate the progress of 
• You prepare timely payment request for suppliers and partners, preparation of purchase orders and workshop budgets, submission of workshop reports, and any other required project 
• You participate in VVOB projects throughout the Continuous Professional Development process as well as in different Teacher Development Model (TPD) models such as field work for classroom observation and teacher coaching and reporting and documenting on reflection 

You comply with VVOB’s internal procurement, financial and related policies, and guidelinesin the execution of your 

As Operations and Procurement Officer, you will also perform any other duty assigned by supervisors in line with the position holder’s capacities.

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Corecompetences:

RoleCompetencies

Who are you?

Your expertise and experience

• Bachelor’sdegree in office administration, procurement or related field or equivalent experience
• At least 5 years of relevant demonstrated work experience in similar project operations and procurement; preferably in the non-profit sector in Rwanda
• Basick nowledge of accounting
• Strong procurement and logistics knowledge
• Organising,planning, and prioritising work
• Experience in logistics support for education programmes in Rwanda is an 
• CIPS procurement 
• Excellent computer skills in MS Office
• Fluent in English and French

Nationality:Rwandan Citizen Location: Kigali, Rwanda Startdate:as soon as possible

What we’re offering:

• A dynamic working environment in an international context
• An exciting job with varied responsibilities and opportunity to progress your career in operations & procurement
• Professional development opportunities
• A competitive salary and benefits package

Deadline for applications: 30th December 2024, 5 PM 

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