Capacity buiding, Coaching and Mentoring Specialist Under Statute at RWANDA PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY (RPPA):Deadline: Oct 24, 2023

Job Description

1. Capacity building
 Develop, propose and publish Strategic Plan for Capacity Building and Development in Public Procurement;
 Carrying out training needs assessment in various procurement operations and regulations;
 Elaborate and publish the annual training calendar (programs) for public procurement officials and other Public Procurement Stakeholders;
 Organizing and conducting annual training calendar (programs) in public procurement;
 Design, Develop and Update Capacity Building Materials in public procurement;
 Monitoring and evaluating trainings in public procurement;
 Develop and Produce training certificates for the participants;
 Produce the periodic and annual training activity reports;
 Develop criteria for selection of candidates to attend professional courses in public procurement;
 Organizing meetings and workshops for awareness and sensitization in public procurement procedures and best practices with different Public Procurement Stakeholders;
 Providing for a public procurement career stream;
 Fostering professionalism, setting qualification requirements for professionals and developing conduct and conflict of interest rules;
 Collecting and developing a database of information on public procurement workforce (information on staff changes/turnover);
 Establish and develop a database of staff trained in public procurement;
 Develop and propose partnership with HLIs in Public Procurement;
 Develop and propose all updates to be made in the
Standard Bidding Document;

2. Coaching and Mentoring
 Elaborate and publish the annual Coaching and Mentoring calendar (programs) for Public Procurement Officials through their respective Procuring Entities;
 Organizing and conducting Coaching and Mentoring programs in public procurement;
 Uplifting the skills of Procurement staff who have been identified as week by audits and monitoring;
 Helping procurement staff apply procurement rules and procedures correctly;
 Providing technical support to Procuring Entities;
 Responding to inquiries from public procurement officials;
 Assisting procuring entities solve particular problems in procurement;
 Perform any other duties assigned by RPPA Director General related to the capacity building, coaching and mentoring activities.

• Competency and Key Technical Skills

  • Integrity

  • Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.

  • Inclusiveness

  • Accountability

  • Communication

  • Teamwork

  • Client/citizen focus

  • Professionalism

  • Commitment to continuous learning

  • Resource management skills

  • Analytical skills

  • Problem solving skills

  • Decision making skills

  • Mentoring and coaching skills

  • Time management skills

  • Risk management skills

  • Results oriented

  • Digital literacy skills

  • Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage.

  • Understanding of other relevant laws related to business and procedures;

  • Understanding of the public procurement laws and procedures;