Procurement
- Work closely with project delivery teams across all of TM's programming sectors and locations to ensure the execution of timely and quality procurement processes. These include, but are not limited to:
- Health: In coordination with the Clinic technical team, monitor, reconcile, and verify deliveries through inspecting delivered equipment and supplies to ensure quality control, specification conformity, and volume assessment.
- Engineering: Lead the timely acquisition of raw materials for TM's reconstruction projects per program requests, liaising closely with the technical teams to ensure quality control.
- Business Development: Assist the business development department in all procurement activities, including the shipment of TM's artisans' products to international markets.
- Maintain a database of supplier information such as qualifications, delivery times, product ranges, and prices.
- Ensure appropriate documentation and soft copy recordkeeping of TM purchases, pricing, and procurement progress and contribute to internal reporting.
- Process invoices through Finance to ensure timely supplier payments.
- Action requests from the office to facilitate day-to-day procurement requests for operational activity.
- Collect samples for the quality and specification conformity, when necessary, before purchasing.
- Check the specification of new procured goods against procurement documentation and register into the main database.
This list is not exhaustive, and other duties may be required as determined by the needs of the organisation.
Key working relationships / cross-working
Internal: Operations, Programs, and Finance departments in the Afghanistan country office
External: Suppliers
Professional approach:
Constructive and collegiate style that contributes to team harmony and delivers to schedule.
Experience:
Experience working in a similar position in an international non-governmental organisation in Afghanistan.
Demonstrable experience delivering procurement processes, ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality, and efficiency throughout.
A keen understanding of procurement compliance and international best practice, and committed to instilling transparency and accountability across all stages of the procurement process.
Experience working in procurement across two or more of TM’s sectors is a plus (e.g., health, education, construction, crafts).
Demonstrable experience meeting deadlines consistently in a wide-ranging and complex portfolio.
Personal Attributes & Skills:
Proven collaborator and driven to build team success
Commitment to process and accountability
Organised and efficient
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Ability to give and receive feedback
Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
Digital skills and experience:
Experienced in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint).
Ability to efficiently manage and maintain databases and record-keeping
Language skills:
Dari (essential), Pashto (desirable), and good international standard spoken and written English (essential)
Candidates are requested to apply through the provided link (Procurement Officer – Fill out form) no later than 17th-November-2025
Kindly submit your CV and Cover Letter as a single PDF document and refrain from attaching certificates or large files.
About Turquoise Mountain
Turquoise Mountain is a non-profit, non-governmental organization specializing in urban regeneration, business development, and education in traditional arts and architecture. We seek to provide education, skills and livelihoods to Afghan men and women. Since 2006 Turquoise Mountain has cleared 45,000 cubic meters of rubbish from the streets, restored or built 150 historic and community buildings, created a primary school and a clinic, and installed water, electricity, and sanitation through the historic traditional craft neighborhood of Murad Khani in the old city of Kabul. It has created the internationally accredited Institute for Afghan Arts & Architecture, training the next generation of craftsmen and women in woodwork, jewelry and gem cutting, calligraphy and miniature painting, and ceramics. Finally, it has sold over US$15,000,000 of Afghan artisan products internationally.
Karwan Sarai Project Context:
The Shashpul Caravanserai is an evocative example of an earthen caravanserai from an extensive 17th century network, located close to the entrance to the Bamiyan valley, on what has been a hugely important path which was connected Safavid Persia, Mughal South Asia, and Central Asia through Afghanistan during the early modern period.
Shashpul Caravanserai was a bustling hub of trade and cultural exchange as well as a safe haven for weary travelers and their animals on one of the most important trade routes in the world.
Turquoise Mountain aims to bring back the Shashpul Caravanserai to its ancient glory. Over the next few years, we will restore, preserve, and expand public access to this historical site and bringing economic regeneration to the area.