ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT:
WFP has been supporting the Kyrgyz Republic’s National Development Programme (NDP) 2030 by leveraging its strengths in food security, nutrition, resilience, and logistics through scaling up nutrition‑sensitive school meals linked to local food procurement, and supporting adaptive, shock‑responsive social protection systems. WFP has been contributing to food security and rural development by building climate‑resilient food systems, supporting smallholder farmers and cooperatives, reducing post‑harvest losses, and integrating anticipatory action and disaster risk reduction in climate‑affected regions. In addition, WFP has been adding values by enhancing emergency preparedness and logistics capacity, improving food security data and early warning systems to support evidence‑based policymaking, and helping reduce regional inequalities through targeted interventions — all closely aligned with the NDP priorities on human capital, resilience, digitalization, and inclusive growth.
PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Under the direct supervision of the Lead Procurement Associate and with guidance from the Head of Supply Chain Unit, the Procurement Assistant provides procurement services in the WFP Kyrgyz Republic Country Office ensuring their effectiveness, transparency and integrity. The Procurement Assistant promotes a client, quality and results oriented approach in the Unit.
The Procurement Assistant works in close cooperation with Programme, Finance, Administration, Budget & Programming and other relevant units within Country Office and Sub-Office, other UN Agencies (in the framework of Common Procurement Team) and WFP Global Headquarters’ staff for resolving procurement-related issues and information delivery.
For more information and to apply, please follow the link: Procurement Assistant SC5, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic