Team & Culture
- Accountable lead for supply chain management, from procurement through to inventory, across all sectors and locations of Turquoise Mountain’s programming and operations.
- Provide direct supervision of Procurement Officer and Operations Assistant, delegating accordingly and actively supporting their professional development.
- Serve as a core member of the Operations department, ensuring collaboration and accountability within the team and proactively championing Turquoise Mountain’s workplace culture, behaviour, and values.
- Coordinate effectively with Operations staff including Security Manager, Admin & Logistics Officer, Senior Liaison Officer, and IT Manager, as well as ensure productive ways of working are established with key members of staff across all sectors, field operations, and finance.
Procurement
Policy, Process, & Compliance
- Support the strategic review of the TM Afghanistan Procurement Policy, ensuring it remains compliant with TM global policies, is based on international best practices, and is informed by internal lessons learned.
- Liaise with TM HQ to facilitate due diligence sanction checks for the procurement of all goods, works, and services valued at USD 1000 or above.
Market Assessment & Supplier Engagement
- Undertake market surveys for routine procurement requirements by gathering and documenting accurate information on prices, services of local and international suppliers, and other related information.
- Establish good relationships with new vendors and suppliers.
- Maintain proactive communication, transparency, and sound working relationships with existing TM suppliers.
Procurement Administration & Delivery
- Ensure effective coordination with delivery staff to develop project procurement plans and their implementation, including preparing plans for the purchase of equipment, services, and supplies.
- Ensure all procurement is conducted in a timely, efficient, cost-effective, and transparent manner, with day-to-day tasks delegated effectively within the team.
- Research and evaluate prospective suppliers.
- Prepare General Procurement Notices, bidding ToRs, and other necessary notifications, and circulate for open/closed tenders.
- Coordinate procurement review committees, ensuring a rotation of personnel, to assess and compare submitted bids from suppliers in line with TM's Procurement Policy, and submit bid analysis reports to the Head of Operations and others as needed.
- Prepare supplier contracts, including Master Framework/Service Agreements, for internal processing.
- Lead large and complex procurements, ensuring compliance with international best practice, and oversee all other procurement activities.
- Oversee all information management related to suppliers and agreements, ensuring internal databases and record-keeping are up-to-date.
- Ensure supplier invoices are processed through Finance in a timely manner.
Fixed Assets & Inventory
- Oversee and record the inflow and outflow of assets and stock.
- Maintain and update records for the assignment, movement, and transfer of new and existing assets between department/offices, as well as asset donations, dispositions, and losses.
- Respond efficiently to asset maintenance and repair requests, coordinating with relevant team members and ensuring cost effectiveness.
- Perform quarterly physical inventory verifications of all assets and ensure that the tag number, location, use, condition, and other specification are align with and are updated in the asset register database.
- Work with program teams to conduct stock checks, as needed.
- Prepare quarterly inventory reports.
- Identify obsolete items for disposal process and, with the Head of Operations, manage the disposal process ensuring internal, donor, and government compliance.
- Coordinate with Finance to reconcile asset list in Turquoise Mountain’s finance system.
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. Proactive approach, driven to improve systems, processes, and ways of working, and ability to identify gaps and challenges and offer tangible solutions in a complex working environment.
Experience:
Experience working in a similar position in an international non-governmental organisation in Afghanistan.
Demonstrable experience coordinating supply chain processes for a non-governmental organisation. This must include experience leading procurement processes, liaising with suppliers, and managing inventory across a range of sectors.
A keen understanding of compliance and international best practice, and committed to instilling transparency and accountability across all stages of the supply chain process.
Experience implementing and overseeing procurement policy, practices, and procedures for an international non-governmental organisation country office.
Experience managing a small team and ability to bring out the best in supervised staff.
Personal Attributes & Skills:
Proven collaborator and driven to build team success
Systems-focused; adept with database management
Organised, detail orientated, and committed to stewardship of resources
Experienced problem solver
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Ability to negotiate with external stakeholders
Ability to give and receive feedback
Ability to identify challenges and course correct in real time
Good listener and responsive to needs of wider team
Digital skills and experience:
Experienced in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint)
Language skills:
Dari (essential), Pashto (desirable), and good international standard spoken and written English (essential)
Candidates are requested to apply through the provided link (Supply Chain Coordinator – 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.