Linpico News and Job Opportunities

LINPICO is Seeking Procurement and IT Specialists

Due to our increasing focus on the procurement and IT fields, our demand for experts for future project opportunities is growing.

We are looking for experts with:

Experience in the Balkans, European Neighborhood Region, Africa and Middle Eastern Countries.

Experience in the development and installation of Management Information Systems (MIS) in the fields of Procurement.

Experience in Public Procurement and Procurement Planning.

Experience with a variety of donors and regional language skills would be considered an asset.

If interested, please send your CV to Laury Incorvaia [email protected] and copy [email protected]

Linpico is seeking experts to fill the following capacity building positions under a two-part assignment for the Nigerian Bank of Industry.

Assignment A: Institutional Capacity Building within the Bank of Industry (The duration of the contract is 18 months, expected to start March 2015)

  • SME Finance Specialist
  • Minimum Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or relevant subject
  • Minimum 20 years’ experience in SME loan underwriting or Project Finance
  • Knowledge of SME challenges in Nigeria is desirable
  • Credit Scoring Expert
  • Minimum Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or relevant subject
  • Minimum 8 years’ experience designing appropriate risk assessment models
  • Experience in database set-up and conducting statistical/modeling analysis
  • Risk Management Professional
  • Minimum Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or relevant subject
  • Minimum 15 years’ experience as a Risk Manager with knowledge of risk identification, measurement, mitigation, and evaluation
  • Management Information Specialist
  • Minimum Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Informational Management System or relevant subject
  • Minimum 20 years’ experience in the design, development, and implementation of data management tools
  • Minimum 10 years’ experience in the deployment of quantitative and qualitative research tools

Assignment B: Capacity Building for SMEs (The duration of the contract is 36 months, expected to start April 2015)

  • Business Strategist
  • Minimum Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Social Sciences or relevant subject
  • Minimum 15 years’ experience in Strategic Management, Business Development and Consulting
  • Credit Scoring Expert
  • Minimum Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Social Sciences or relevant subject
  • Minimum 20 years’ experience in SME operations and lending
  • Minimum 15 years’ experience in SME Capacity Building and mentoring

Please submit your updated CVs in English to Laury Incorvaia – Lincorvaia@linpico.com, copying in [email protected] and [email protected]

Linpico is seeking Patent Examination Experts in Mechanics or Chemistry or Electronics

For an upcoming project Linpico is seeking Patent Examination Experts in Mechanics or Chemistry or Electronics with the following profile:

Qualifications and skills

  • A University Degree in Engineering, Mechanics, Chemistry or equivalent.
  • Excellent skills regarding the organisation, animation of training session on patent examination
  • Demonstrated ability to make oral and public presentations of technical issues in a simplified manner
  • Excellent oral and writing skills in English

General Professional Experience

  • At least 10 years of experience in patent examination in the field of Engineering and/or Mechanics and/or Chemistry
  • Working experience in donor funded projects is an asset
  • Working experience in developing countries in general and in the Caribbean region in particular is an asset

Specific Experience

  • At least 5 years of experience in training and capacity building in the field of patent examination in Engineering and/or Mechanics and/or Chemistry
  • At least 5 years of collaboration with a National Patent Office and/or the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) and/or the EPO (European Patent Office).

If interested please send your CV to Katja Lamers: [email protected] copying [email protected]

Linpico achieves ‘Very Good’ rating from MCA Namibia

Linpico has successfully completed its Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Education with Textbook Supply Chain Management and Management Training in Namibia and has been congratulated by MCA-Namibia for exceeding the requirements, efficiency and added value it has brought to the project.  Linpico has been providing long and short term expertise to support upgrading of textbook procurement and supply chain management, training and building the capacity of teaching and management professionals throughout Namibia. An important component of the project was the installation of an Education Management Information System (EMIS).

Linpico is supporting the Management and Coordination of Development Cooperation in Lesotho

Linpico has recently been awarded a new contract in Lesotho where it will contribute to the implementation of Lesotho’s national development agenda. The specific purpose is to help improve effectiveness of aid policy orientation through strengthened management and coordination of development cooperation and in particular strengthen the office of the National Authorising Officer. The project is funded by the European Union.

Linpico is very pleased to renew its close professional relationship with our associate Director, Dr. Hendrik van der Heijden, the Team Leader for this project and Linpico’s senior advisor on Macro Economic, Public Sector Management and Governance issues.

Linpico celebrates 200th Contract Award

Linpico has recently been awarded its 200th contract since the start of the company in 1991.

The contract started in June 2014, with the consultants doing an Assessment of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capacities for elections observations.  The specific objective of the project is to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in anchoring democratic values and structures, human rights, social inclusion and the rule of law, by contributing to a credible and transparent election process. The project also aims to support the EU integration process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the provision of expert advice for the 2014 elections in the area of media/advocacy strategy and detecting and addressing irregularities, including fraud, in the election process.

Linpico is providing the Team Leader for a number of 100 working days. The contract will run until March 2015.

For more information, please contact Sarah Gaisford: mgaisford@linpico.com

EU Delegation and NAO Team Building event: Getting to know each other better

LINPICO has been implementing the EU-Ethiopia Technical Cooperation project since 2012. The project aims to strengthen aid cooperation mechanisms in order to enhance the coordination of EU external assistance, including by supporting preparation of projects, joint annual reports, EU+ cooperation, Aid effectiveness and Monitoring including JROM.

Besides all treaties, agreements and procedures the main thing that counts in the collaboration of the European Delegation (EUD) and the National Authorisation Office (NAO) are “people”.  The better they know each other the better the results of collaboration. This was the idea behind the first ever team-building event of the EUD and NAO at beginning of June in Addis Ababa.

Forty-two members of the two organisations met to discuss their daily work, collaboration and restraints. The team-building event was joined by the new Head of the European Union Delegation to Ethiopia, Ambassador Chantal Hebberecht and Ato (Mr) Belachew Beyene, Deputy National Authorizing Officer. Mixed working groups with members of the two organisations discussed challenges and opportunities of their daily work in the fields of rules and procedures, communication, issue of trust, triangle of decision taking (NAO, EUD, line ministries) and motivation. After a long working day the participants had smiles on their faces, all of them appreciated the chance to get in touch with their counterparts and to know each other better.

For more information, please contact Laury Incorvaia: [email protected]

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Over $ 1 billion procured in Afghanistan

Since November 2011, Linpico has been implementing a contract to strengthen and support public procurement services in Afghanistan. The service contract between Afghanistan Reconstruction and Development Services and Linpico is financed by the World Bank under the Public Financial Management Reform Project.

Since the commencement of the Linpico contract until the end of May 2014, a total of 301 contracts (120 Goods, 102 Works, 32 Non-consultancy Services and 47 Consultancy Services) with a total value of USD 1,452,619,838 have been awarded. Of particular significance is a contract amounting to USD 427,335,806 which has been awarded to three National firms for the supply of bulk fuel to the Ministry of Interior. This is the single largest value contract ever finalized by ARDS and is a record.The contract is funded by ISAF.

 

For more information on this contract please contact our Managing Director Ivan Linhart: ilinhart@linpico.com

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