WCSO Programme Monitoring & Reporting Coordinator

The WCSO Programme Monitoring & Reporting Coordinator supports monitoring, reporting, knowledge management, partner accountability and programme performance tracking across the Women's Civil Society Organizations Unit portfolio in Afghanistan. The role involves coordination with partners and programme colleagues to ensure quality data management, results tracking, timely reporting and learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical inputs to programme formulation to ensure monitoring and reporting are incorporated.
• Provide inputs to the development and regular updating of monitoring indicators, monitoring calendars, field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes for the WCSO Unit portfolio.
• Support partners in developing and using performance monitoring frameworks, monitoring systems, reporting tools and baseline or endline data collection instruments.
• Provide inputs to annual work planning, review and reporting processes, ensuring that monitoring and reporting requirements are reflected in programme implementation.
• Ensure that lessons learned, evaluation findings and monitoring evidence are incorporated into programme formulation and implementation processes.
• Support monitoring and tracking of results against unit, country office and corporate targets.
• Coordinate with programme colleagues, Sub-Office Coordinators and partners to ensure standardized and timely collection of monitoring data.
• Track implementation progress against approved indicators, targets, workplans, partnerships and reporting commitments.
• Maintain and regularly update monitoring plans, reporting calendars, programme databases, indicator matrices and partner reporting trackers.
• Compile, validate and analyse quantitative and qualitative programme data to identify results, trends.
• Facilitate reporting of results to internal and external audiences.
• Support the WCSO Unit in meeting internal and external reporting requirements and deadlines, including donor, programme, annual and corporate reporting processes.
• Draft and consolidate inputs for donor reports, annual reports, programme briefs, presentations, newsletters and other reporting products.
• Conduct initial technical and quality review of partner narrative reports, ensuring completeness, consistency, accuracy and alignment with approved results frameworks and reporting requirements.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies and reporting weaknesses and support follow-up with partners and Sub-Offices to improve report quality and timeliness.
• Support data management, quality assurance and evidence documentation.
• Maintain programme documentation systems, reporting repositories, monitoring files and evidence records for audits, evaluations and donor reporting.
• Support verification of reported results and ensure that supporting documentation is properly filed, archived and accessible.
• Prepare monitoring tables, dashboards, summaries and reporting packages to inform WCSO Unit planning, management decisions and performance reviews.
• Contribute to portfolio-level analysis of programme performance, partner compliance and reporting trends.
• Contribute to knowledge building, learning and capacity development.
• Coordinate collection of partner achievements, success stories, lessons learned, good practices and learning products across the WCSO portfolio.
• Contribute to the development and updating of monitoring and reporting guidance materials, tools, templates and standard operating procedures.
• Support internal learning sessions, reporting clinics, orientations and technical workshops for WCSO Unit personnel, Sub-Office Coordinators and partners.
• Promote shared understanding of results-based management, monitoring, reporting and learning responsibilities among programme colleagues and partners.
• Support evaluation and learning processes.
• Assist in planning and coordination of programme evaluations, assessments, reviews and data requests.
• Support preparation of evaluation documentation, background materials and evidence packages.
• Track implementation of evaluation recommendations and management response actions where relevant.
• Support analysis and dissemination of evaluation findings, lessons learned and recommendations.
• Perform other duties within functional profile as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree - 3 year(s) experience
• Fluency in Dari or Pashto and working knowledge of English are required
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable
• Master’s degree or equivalent in Political Science, Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women’s Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Administration or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Certification in Results Based Management, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation or a related area is desirable.
• At least 1 years of progressively responsible experience, in monitoring and reporting, programme management, results-based management, knowledge management or partnership coordination is required.
• Experience in monitoring and reporting of development, humanitarian or peace and security programmes is required.
• Experience in drafting donor, programme or corporate reports is required.
• Experience supporting monitoring systems, data collection, results tracking, data management and quality assurance processes is required.
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages and spreadsheet or database packages is required.
• Experience working with civil society organizations, especially women-led civil society organizations, implementing partners or community-based organizations is desirable.
• Experience in the use of web-based management systems or a modern ERP system, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.

Skills

• Result-Based Management
• Project Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Programme Management
• Knowledge Management
• Partnership Coordination
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Data Collection
• Results Tracking
• Data Management
• Quality Assurance
• Report Drafting
• Donor Reporting
• Corporate Reporting
• Office Applications
• Spreadsheet Software Knowledge
• Database Management
• Web-based Management Systems
• ERP Systems
• Oracle Cloud

Languages

Dari, Pashto, English