Location: Lilydale (Local Government)
Duration: 3-Month Contract
Rate:$62 per hour + super
This role will focus on delivering day-to-day procurement activities, supporting stakeholders and ensuring processes are compliant and efficient.
Working within a collaborative team, you will provide end-to-end support across RFQ and RFT processes, contract administration, and stakeholder advisory, while maintaining strong probity and governance standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day procurement activities across RFQ and RFT processes
- Develop tender documentation, specifications, and advertisements
- Coordinate tender processes including briefings, addenda, evaluations, and contract award
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement and contractual matters
- Facilitate tender evaluation panels and ensure compliance with governance frameworks
- Monitor procurement timelines and ensure milestones are met
- Prepare contract documentation and manage execution and record keeping
- Contribute to procurement policy improvements and process enhancements
- Support the use of procurement systems (e.g., contract management systems, DocuSign, TechOne, ECM)
- Ensure adherence to the Local Government Act 2020 and internal procurement policies
- Proven experience in procurement (essential)
- Experience in local government procurement (highly regarded)
- Strong understanding of procurement processes, including RFQ and RFT
- Knowledge of probity, confidentiality, and compliance standards
- Strong stakeholder engagement and customer service skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working with procurement or finance systems is advantageous
- Relevant qualification or significant equivalent experience
- Police Check (or willingness to obtain)
- Valid Australian driver’s licence
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.
You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.
