Anemarie Guth Proite

Committed and professional Service Advisor with proven ability to effectively manage customer inquiries, provide accurate advice and ensure customer satisfaction. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills for providing customers with best possible service.

Dynamic Procurement Specialist with extensive experience in customer service. Highly organized professional establishes relationships with customers. Stay calm under pressure.

MBA, Information System Strategic Management: Strategic Planning, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) - Brazil (2005)

B.A. Business Administration, Centro Universitário-IESB - Brasilia-Brazil (2003)

B.A. Letras (Languages & Teaching) - University of Brasilia, Brasilia - Brazil, 1972

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• Hired as a Product and External Services Consultant (PEC), a specialized technical consultancy to review the consistency, with the objective of ensuring the quality of the standard bidding documents in Portuguese, English, and Spanish with IDB's Procurement Policies. The consultancy aimed to meet the demands of the IDB's Country Office in Brazil, related to the Expansion of Procurement Policies to modernize, update and harmonize the different IDB templates of its standard bidding documents in the different versions to be used and implemented under the new Environmental and Social Management structure, also aiming to incorporate the best practices and experiences in procurement in these documents to be published in the Bank's website, and to assist the Project Manager in charge of this Area, at the IDB's headquarters in Washington, DC.
• Hired by the Operations Policy and Project Support Division of the New Development Bank as a Short Term Temporary Consultant (STTC) for a period of eight (08) month or 50 (fifty) working days to assist in the preparation of the procurement plan and project administration manual for the project appraisal documents for consideration and approval by the Bank’s Management and the Board. Performed the risk assessments & readiness matrixes for two projects in Brazil (States of São Paulo and Pará); Translated the NDB procurement policy to Portuguese; and reviewed the procurement sections of the Project Document to Board (PDB) of both projects.
• Hired by the State of Espírito Santo (Cesan) as a Short Term Consultant (for a period of 100 days) to assist the Project’s procurement staff on the preparation of an innovative World Bank bidding document launched internationally and to provide assistance to technical teams with practical implementation following the world procurement best practices.
• Hired by Rio de Janeiro State (Department of Agriculture) as a Short-Term Procurement Specialist to advise and train Project’s procurement and technical staff on how to conduct their procurement processes and manage their respective contracts following the World Bank guidelines and procedures.
• Hired by the Government of Angola (Ministry of Education) as a short-term consultant (for a period of 50 days) to provide advice and train the Project’s procurement staff on concepts, policies, and procurement procedures, as well as to provide assistance to technical teams with practical implementation. Deliver a Seminar on Procurement of Goods, Technical Services and Selection and Contracting Consultants to the Project Implementation Unit staff as well as to the hired rank staff of the Ministry of Education.
• Hired as by the United Nations Green Climate Fund - FVC - (UN Green Climate Fund- GCF) - Saigon - South Korea to review its Procurement Guidelines and suggest an amendment to insert world’s procurement best practices.
• Hired by the World Bank Procurement Unit (Brasilia Office) to handle a mandatory Procurement Post Reviews in three projects in two Northeastern States of Pernambuco and Bahia.
• Hired by the Government of Mozambique (Ministry of Economy) as a short-term consultant (for a period of 100 days) to provide advice and support to the Project’s procurement staff on concepts, policies and procurement procedures, as well as to provide assistance to technical teams with practical implementation.
• As a Procurement Advisor for the Integrated Growth Poles Project (IGPP), a WB’s financed project designed to improve the inclusion and performance of small enterprises and smallholder farmers in the Zambezi Valley and Nacala Corridor, led a very competitive selection process to hire the Catalytic Fund’s Manager, the most important contract of said project, and created a capacity building program for their procurement and technical staff.
• As a Country Procurement Specialist in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2011 – 2013), led the initiative to install and successfully implemented a Joint Country Capacity Building Program (World Bank and IADB) and Honduras Country Management Unit (CMU) Capacity Building Program, delivering workshops targeting the technical team of both Multilateral Institutions’ projects. The joint session of the new installed program received an outstanding evaluation from trainees and government officials, what ratified the WB’s first assumption with regards to this type of training sessions using teaching best practices methodology which ensured the sustainability of the Program in that country.
• In both innovative Programs (Joint and CMU) a very innovative teaching material was used to guarantee the participants’ knowledge improvement and to lessen their deficiencies when writing or revising Terms of Reference prior to their submission to the Bank(s). Same type of material was also used to hands-on other 70 procurement staff from different PIUs on how to improve/write TORs, totaling 140 staff in year of 2013. When the Bank launched the P4R method, delivered sessions involving all country's procurement staff to present such innovative tool.
• Served as acting Country Manager in Honduras for extended periods, responsible for decisions involving Bank policies and negotiations with internal and external clients on sensitive issues. In that capacity, was responsible for advising on complex projects usually involving the participation of multidisciplinary teams.
• As a Country Procurement Specialist in Managua, Nicaragua (2009-2010), successfully installed the Country Capacity Building Program culturally adapting the very innovative teaching material that guaranteed an improvement and lessened clients’ deficiencies when executing their projects.
• Participated with IADB in the evaluation process of the National Public Procurement Law following the OECD parameters, providing advice to the Government of Nicaragua on all aspects of public procurement reform, including legislative, regulatory, institutional reforms.
• As a Member of the Procurement Specialist Team in Brasilia, Brazil (1998 – 2008), shared with three other team members (PS) the responsibility for supervising the procurement and fiduciary service functions. Reviewed and cleared procurement documents and decisions under Bank-financed projects as well as provided advice on projects under preparation at federal, state or municipals levels.