Data and Reporting Officer

Employer: Sightsavers

Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required 

Temporary: 24-month Fixed Term Contract 

Working hours: This is a full-time role with 35 hours per week

Salary: £29,400 to £34,600pa 

Closing date: 09/11/2025

• Job description

  About the role 

  Sightsavers work in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) contributes to a range of public health problems to reduce disparities, lower disease burdens, and build locally owned sustainable health programs. The NTD Data and Reporting Officer sits within the NTD Surveillance unit and provides a single point of contact for programme and country teams on data monitoring and reporting. 

  The position will be based in the UK, with occasional travel to Sightsavers headquarters in Haywards Heath, and international travel up to four weeks per year. 

  
  Responsibilities
  

  As the NTD Data and Reporting Officer you will help standardise, consolidate and continuously improve directorate Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tools and processes, maintain data architecture for NTDs, ensuring core organisational data assets are of high quality, cohesive and accessible, and manage secure storage for NTD data reporting.

  Further responsibilities include:

  • Maintain a cross-departmental M&E calendar.

  • Develop and disseminate and track quarterly planning and reporting templates for country office/partners. 

  • Quality check data submissions prior to consolidation against organisational data policy.

  • Ensure programme plans (targets) and associated performance data (actuals) are timely and accurately entered in core organisational data systems.

  • Process and analyse large, complex datasets on request for directorate senior management, donors and partners.

  • Conduct detailed reviews of donor reports, narratives and press releases to ensure any referenced data is accurate and appropriately referenced.

  • Provide day to day capacity building and support for directorate and country office staff on data monitoring and reporting.

  • Provide ongoing support to licensed NTD data systems, including acting as a first point of contact for the directorate NTD data helpdesk.

  • Participate in NTD programme and team meetings.

  
  Skills and Experience
  

  As the successful candidate you will possess practical experience or an undergraduate degree in mathematics, data science, international development, public health, international relations, geography, statistics, or an appropriate equivalent. You will also have excellent English language skills, have an understanding of international development issues and a commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities, and have experience within data reporting and monitoring.

  Further requirements include:

  Essential

  • Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills, with the ability to work with large, complex datasets. 

  • Understanding of data privacy and best practices in data security.

  • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to identify critical issues and communicate these effectively to colleagues.

  • Able to facilitate group-training sessions, with a focus on programme systems and data, building capacity in developing country contexts in areas relevant to position.

  • Advanced Excel skills, and proficiency with Microsoft suite.

  • Knowledge and understanding of Monitoring and Evaluation reporting.

  • Experience processing and analysing large and complex data sets.

  • Desirable

  • Working knowledge of French and/or Portuguese.

  • Experience of working in different countries, preferable within NTDs or the public health sector.

  • Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data visualisation platforms, such as PowerBI and Tableau.

  This is a varied and involved position, and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

  Please note that there will be an expectation that you can occasionally visit our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW), and complete international travel up to four weeks per year.

  Benefits

  Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.

  
  Next Steps
  

  To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please submit your CV via our recruitment portal and answer all of the application questions. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

  Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

  We anticipate that remote interviews will take place during the week commencing 24 November 2025 and the evaluation process will include a written task and an oral interview to be completed by shortlisted candidates in advance of this.

  Closing date: 9 November 2025

  As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

  Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.

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