Monitoring and Reporting Officer

About TDA:

The Day After is a Syrian-led organization that works for democratic transition in Syria. TDA works with its partners among Syrian CSOs and international human rights organizations to influence Syrian and non-Syrian stakeholders for the favor of the democratic transition and to keep transitional justice and accountability as a high priority during transition.

Through its programs, TDA aims at strengthening the capacity of key civil society actors working on transitional justice and rule of law as well as representatives of victims of human rights and amplifying their voices within policy debates through developing widely supported, evidence-based recommendations and channeling them to the negotiating parties and other stakeholders. We pursue this mission simultaneously through “bottom-up” and “top-down” strategies to ensure that transitional justice is not dropped off the negotiations. In addition of ensuring that relevant stakeholders are informed and demonstrate deep understanding and support of accountability and transitional justice related issues, TDA aims at empowering the local communities to be resilient and adopt principles of transitional justice.

TDA seeks a full-time consultant to fill the position of Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) Officer in its head office in Istanbul. Under the direct supervision of the Head of Development and Outreach, the M&R Officer is responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate collection of reliable data related to TDA’s programs and initiatives, as well as for the development of timely and high-quality donor reports.

Key responsibilities and duties:

· Undertake effective monitoring and reporting of TDA projects, including monitoring data quality and tracking the progress of activities

· Support and contribute to the organization’s vision, framework and strategic plan for its M&R tasks

· Coordinate the collection of data with project team members as needed to effectively track and communicate results

· Through collaboration and training, assist the Head of Development in building the knowledge and skills of TDA staff and partners on the logical framework, data management, data analysis and result-oriented programming, monitoring and evaluation methods and principles and report writing techniques and requirements for relevant donors to ensure compliance

· Produce high quality program progress reports in a timely manner as per TDA internal needs and donors’ requirements

· Develop and maintain effective information database on projects, providing resource and necessary support for program inputs and outputs

· Track programmatic reporting needs to donor to ensure quality and on-time reporting

· Develop and implement systems (guidelines, tools and templates) to easily monitor, evaluate, and report on program results

· Maintain an organized digital archiving system of all data and information related to M&E activities

· Support TDA staff in applying M&E guidelines and tools and in preparing their monthly activity reports and their semi-annual and annual progress reports

· Provide Arabic to English translation of monitoring documents as needed

· Organize and coordinate lessons learnt workshops/review of program work plans within TDA and with partners for internal and external sharing

Skills and qualifications:

· Relevant academic degree in the fields of international development, transitional justice, political science, or a related social sciences or statistics field

· Minimum 3 years of experience in monitoring and reporting

· Experience designing, planning, and implementing M&R systems

· Experience in both quantitative and qualitative data collection, including knowledge of tools, processes, and methodologies

· Strong written and organizational skills for monitoring and reporting on results

· Demonstrable knowledge of results-based management and reporting

· Good understanding of the context of the Syrian conflict

· Excellent written communication skills in English, including proven experience writing donor reports and effectively synthesizing monitoring data

· Good communication and interpersonal skills

· High proficiency in Arabic and English (spoken and written)

· Strong computer skills: proven ability to use MS Office

· Knowledge/experience in statistics is an asset

· Experience in gender equality and/or reporting on gender issues is an asset