About us
The Open Contracting Partnership is recruiting new members to its Governing Board. We are looking for exceptional leaders who share our belief that open, fair, and competitive public contracting is one of the most powerful levers for better government and better lives. If you have the experience, networks, and drive to help steer a global mission-driven non-profit, we want to hear from you.
About OCP
The Open Contracting Partnership is an independent non-profit working to transform how governments buy goods, services, and infrastructure - making public contracting open, fair, and effective for the people it's meant to serve. Governments spend $13 trillion on public contracts every year. When that money is spent well, it builds schools, delivers medicines, and creates jobs. When it isn't, it fuels corruption and waste. We work with reformers in governments, civil society, and the private sector across more than 50 countries to change that.
Over the past decade, we have changed the narrative from procurement being an opaque, bureaucratic government function to a transformative lever for improving service delivery, economic inclusion, and trust. We have powerful impact stories from around the world about how open contracting saves money, deters corruption, creates jobs and improves essential services. Our 2024-2030 strategy focuses on deepening these impacts with measurable targets on how many people our work reaches.
We are reaching the mid-point of our current strategy and to ensure that we reach our ambitious targets and are guided by reformers and leaders, we are looking to expand our Governing Board.
The role of the Governing Board
OCP's Governing Board is a multi-stakeholder board drawing on expertise across government, the private sector, civil society, technology, and international development. The Board oversees OCP’s governance, finances, and the Executive Director. The Board meets three times a year in full session. One of these meetings is a two-day in-person meeting, usually in a location easily accessible internationally. All Board members serve in a personal capacity and are guided by OCP's Code of Ethics and conflict of interest policy.
Board members are expected to: actively contribute to strategic direction and organizational oversight; support OCP's fundraising and partnership development; serve as champions for open contracting in their own networks and sectors; and participate actively in Board deliberations and work.
This is a voluntary, unpaid role. The time commitment is approximately 8–10 days per year, including Board meetings.
Equity, diversity and inclusion statement
If all can participate, all will benefit: our focus on inclusion and equity
Inequality can affect how governments spend their money. The results can be devastating: People in marginalized communities frequently experience lower-quality public services, from public education and transportation infrastructure, to healthcare and beyond. Many small women- or minority-owned businesses are systemically locked out of the $13 trillion global government marketplace because of overly burdensome and opaque procurement processes, creating yet another barrier for these entrepreneurs to growing their companies and sharing their innovations with the market.
Public procurement is embedded in larger, often antiquated public financial management policies and systems that reinforce existing inequities and exclusion. Procurement is more likely to perpetuate the status quo than to challenge it. To create fair outcomes for businesses and deliver higher quality and more equitable public services, we need better public procurement.
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