Sayed Murtaza Aman, Senior Procurement Adviser

Sayed Murtaza Aman

Senior Procurement Adviser

Metis Solutions

Location
Afghanistan
Education
Master's degree, International Relations
Experience
17 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months

Senior Procurement Adviser at Metis Solutions
  • Afghanistan - Kabul
  • March 2015 to May 2016

Worked on a US Department of Defense Program called (GIRoA Advisory and Assistance to the Ministries of Defense and Interior (GAAM) excecuted by Metis Solutions and Oxus group both based in Virginia at the time.
I used to assist GAAM employees implementing the said project.

EX-Head of Procurement Policy Unit at Ministry of Finance
  • Afghanistan
  • August 2006 to April 2013

Overall responsibility of PPU affairs management including staff supervision, PPRS Project, PPU Contractor (CKP) activities and payments
Supervise and coordination of monitoring procurement proceedings with Procuring entities to ascertain efficiency and compliance with the Procurement Law;
Collection of data or reports and review procurement records and files;
propose improvements in procurement practices to accomplish the purposes of the law;
in consultation with concerned officials and professionals prepare standard bidding documents;
promote and oversee effective supply management procedures;
assess the procurement needs and capacity of procuring entities;
review applications concerning procurement in accordance with the law;
debar bidders, in accordance with the provisions within the law;
refer violations of the law to the relevant authorities for prosecution;
carry out economic studies on procurement, comparisons, and future projections, so as to collect information to provide reports to the council of ministers;
determine policy for and facilitate the use of information technology in procurement, including establishing websites and data bases related to procurement;
implement measures aimed at developing human resources and professionalism for procurement, including recruitment and training program, and providing certification of the credentials of members of Procurement Committees and procurement officers;
issue circulars for integrating executions of procurement;

Senior Consultant at Altai
  • Afghanistan
  • December 2005 to August 2006

Lunching the Research team in schools getting interviews done by them.
Supervising Research team during interview
Checking interview forms for mistakes etc.
Involved in field research, presentation, debrief, consulting and evaluation
Definition field of the methodological tools to be used in the research projects
Field research, consulting and evaluation.
Coordinate the design of research tools including translation and testing.
Coordinate field research and analyses the data collected.
Participate in the design of mission reports and presentations
Participate in the interviews and focus groups

Provincial Election Coordinator at Joint Election Management Body
  • Afghanistan
  • April 2005 to November 2005

Overall management of the election operation in the province throughout all the election process
Point of Reference, to all staff regarding any issue that arose during the Nomination, Voter registration, candidates related issues; Candidates campaign, election and vote counting.
Point of reference on candidates related issues, throughout all election process.
Supervision of all candidates’ nomination activities, Voter registration.
Monitoring media tracking sheets, media related issues, out reach programs accreditation process.
Ensuring the nomination team’s adherence to all candidate nomination procedural instructions from the Trainer. Monitored and managed all D/DFCs training for polling and counting.
Monitoring and supervision of the flow of applicants and smooth processing flow.
Reported activities, incidents and statistics as necessary and according to instructions.
Ensuring sufficient materials for nomination activities, notifying the provincial Logistic Coordinator
Liaised and arranged official meetings between Government and Election office
Spokesman on behalf of the JEMB in public/official media, Radios TVs, symposiums and etc while raising some issue or problem.

Provincial Logistics Coordinator at UNOPS/Electoral
  • Afghanistan
  • March 2004 to April 2005

Overall Electoral Fleet management including almost 80 vehicles and supervising directly 75 drivers, 4 Mechanics, 6 radio operators, 14 office compound armed guards and 11quick reaction force armed guards, 5 office compound male and female guards, 1Logistic Assistant, 2 Fleet move com and Admin/Finance Assistant

Human Resource/Admin Manager at Mercy Corps
  • Afghanistan
  • March 2002 to March 2004

Supervising and management of around 400 MC staff recruitment, making contracts, preparation and dissemination of staff manual in their required language, preparation and maintenance of personal files, time sheets, payments, payrolls and payslips.

Translator at CBS News
  • Afghanistan
  • September 2001 to March 2002

Translated the documents from Farsi to English and vise verse, and did the interpretation while and where required.

Teacher & Head Master at Hamedi Shahid High School, Education Department
  • Afghanistan
  • April 1992 to September 1996

Teaching Dari, Arabic and English Language and Administration Role

Education

Master's degree, International Relations
  • at Islamic Azad University Afghanistan Unit
  • December 2019

Wrote articles, essays and thesis

Specialties & Skills

Procurement
Human Resources
Administration
Teaching
Logistics
Procurement

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Attract Procurement Consultancy Services
  • President, CEO
  • May 2013

Training and Certifications

BA Business Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2007
Valid Until:
March 2011