Irakli Tsirkvadze

Procurement: -Lead efforts to competitively procure all goods and services for the program; -Provide oversight of the procurement process to ensure USAID compliance, cost reasonableness, allowability and allocability, accurate financial accounting, sufficient internal controls, and timely reporting; -In collaboration with the Grants Manager, Finance and Administration Manager and Deputy Chief of Party, help guide program teams in designing technical activities in support of the technical workplan; -Help develop bid documentation (such as RFPs), including scopes of work, specifications, and evaluation criteria; Logistics -Facilitate import/export and logistics matters, i.e. customs clearance of procured goods; -Prepare and maintain project exemption letters and shipments logs; -Manage logistics operations and inventory system; -Develop and implement the distribution plan for inventoried equipment; -Provide logistics support to operations throughout Guatemala; -Coordinate day-to-day movement of project staff; -Plan the transportation of property between sites throughout Guatemala; -Work with Finance and Administration team on the receiving of goods and inspection process; -Manage relationship with freight forwarders to coordinate the transport of goods to final destinations; -Serve as a point of contact for logistics-related questions during audits; -Process documentation for transfers between subcontractors, and also between subcontractors and other government agencies