Report Writers at International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI)

Essential duties:

• Supports IBTCI’s Somalia Monitoring Project (SMP) for USAID’s OFDA and FFP clients, in the preparation of assigned monthly Site Visit Reports.
• IBTCI will assign specific monthly Site Visit Reports to the Report Writer, specifying the required deadline for completion of each Report.
• Conducts initial review of Site Visit data for quality control purposes and immediately alerts the MERL Specialsit if there are missing elements that require follow-up communication with the TPM team in Somalia.
• Completes the Data Quality Review Checklist.
• Analyzes site visit data from the TPM subcontractors and writes the associated Site Visit Reports using the assigned SMLP format, and sends to IBTCI SMP team in Nairobi by the assigned deadline.
• The consultant will be paid monthly on a fixed-fee deliverable basis, per completion of each assigned SMP Site Visit Report.
• Support IBTCI in summarizing Implementing Partner (IP) awards for subcontractors to reference when conducting site visits, as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

1. Demonstrable experience in report writing with a strong bias towards research, monitoring and evaluation and donor reports.
2. Impeccable English language skills with the ability to write succinctly, coherently and effectively, with a very strong attention to detail.
3. Strong organizational skills, and demonstrated ability to work methodically with large volume of data, and large numbers of reports, avoiding any version control issues.
4. Ability to produce consistent quality products under tightly-defined deadlines.
5. Knowledge of USAID writing style guidelines.
6. Strong skills in analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, and the ability to extract accurately data from MS Excel and develop narrative reports using that data.
7. Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the Somali context.
• Experience in humanitarian program and knowledge of the key programming sectors.