Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) is a Rwandan not-for-profit company established in 2010 to promote financial inclusion and financial sector development. AFR is currently funded by Sweden, MasterCard Foundation and Jersey Overseas Aid.
AFR is part of the broader Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) network in Africa that seeks to create a transformative impact on ending poverty by supporting efforts to improve financial inclusion and financial sector development through helping policymakers, regulators, financial service providers, and markets drive a more inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
AFR supports the removal of systemic barriers that hinder access to and use of financial services by low-income people, particularly the rural poor, women, youth, and MSMEs, and supports the development and provision of financial services including savings, credit, insurance, investment, payments, and remittances. AFR is a gender-intentional organization, having mainstreamed gender across all programming.
AFR is guided by the Market System Development (MSD) approach recognizing that efforts to increase financial inclusion and financial sector development must be market-led, profitable, and sustainable. For more details visit our website: www.afr.rw
Access to Finance Rwanda seeks a procurement professional intern to support the procurement manager on several tasks.
Scope
The Procurement professional intern will with support from the procurement manager, manage small value procurements from quotation request through issuance or purchase orders or contracts, help manage communication with vendors(notifications), draft some key procurement documents like RFPs, contracts where necessary. Other administrative duties like managing the procurement planning process, updating procurement weekly reports and any other duties as may be required by the supervisor.
Qualifications and Responsibilities
- Manage small value procurements from quotation request through issuance or purchase orders or contracts.
- Draft some key procurement documents like RFPs, contracts where necessary help manage communication with vendors(notifications).
- Updating procurement weekly reports.
- Other administrative duties like managing the procurement planning process.
- Any other duties as requested by the Procurement Manager.
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, business administration or any other related field.
- Minimum of 1 year post graduate experience in a procurement field.
- Understanding of good practice in procurement; ability to implement policies and procedures.
- Excellent written, verbal communication; quality document and report preparation abilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively, as a team member; and to build and maintain a positive work environment across the organization.
- Demonstrate High ethical values.
- Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda required.
- Duration of contract: Nine months
