PERSONAL INFORMATION
Onur Tatar
Corso Benedetto Croce 38/10 A, 10135 Torino (Italy), Yasamkent Mah. 3227 Cad. NO: 1-E/5,
Cankaya, Ankara (Turkey)
- or --https://www.linkedin.com/in/otatar/
WORK EXPERIENCE
01/10/2015 - Present
Ministry of Justice, Ankara (Turkey)
Court Counsellor providing expertise: tax, duty, fee, trade, labour contracts, procurement,
trademarks.
01/08/2012 - Present
Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Ankara (Turkey)
Program manager with extensive experience in stakeholder and staff relations, contract and project
management, financial planning, procurement and development programs.
Sr. Program Manager (2015- Present)
▪ Prepared direct grant frames and supported the potential beneficiary institutions, which worth more
than €100 million about OSH, Childcare, Women Employment, Vocational Education.
▪ Developed the business and operational requirements documents preparation for more than 10
service and supply provision components, purchases from suppliers and consultation firms. The
total budget of €30 million.
▪ Conducted data analysis and background reporting of EU IPA Human Resources Program of
Turkey (HRD SOP) 2014 – 2020.
▪ Organized brown bag meetings, and gave seminars to various public institutions, labour unions,
international organisations about the new Sectoral Operation Programme, operation preparation,
proposals, funding options and priorities.
▪ Managed the accounting system and financial aspects of IPA program closure, and executed
financial audits and inspections of International and National Court of Auditors.
▪ Created and verified the financial plans and implementations of more than 20 projects within
various grant programmes (LLL-II, PRE-II, ISEDEP, VOC_TEST).
▪ Negotiated financial package, budget discipline topics with the EU, strategy priorities and grant
packages with national ministries, potential credit mechanisms, direct grants and international
projects with international institutions, large scale projects trade union confederations, universities
and other related stakeholders.
▪ Identified and created output indicators, database and method of analysis from more than 400
grant projects under 5 grant schemes for IPA programme closure.
▪ Supervised junior contract managers.
▪ Prepared Terms of References for consultation services purchases, supervised and recruited key
experts for contract fulfilment
▪ Coordinated 10 monitoring experts, recruited technical assistance, consultancy, subcontractor
teams, scheduled monitoring visits.
▪ Built the standard operational processes to track the KPIs of given grants.
Program Manager (2012 - 2015)
▪ Completion of final financial verifications of grant projects (Lifelong learning, Promoting Registered
Employment, Promoting Youth Employment), service and supply implementations.
▪ Ensured the efficiency, reality and budget discipline of costs of projects according to both EU
Guides and national legislation.
▪ Managed the contracts of the projects valued more than €80 million below which consist hundreds
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of purchases and providers.
▪ Organized brown bag meetings, and gave seminars to various public institutions, labour unions,
international organisations about the new Sectoral Operation Programme, operation preparation,
proposals, funding options and priorities.
▪ Prepared the grant project packages worth over €30 million to promote promoting Social Inclusion
in Densely Roma Populated Areas and Life Long Learning programs for over 600 projects and
thousands of contractors. Supervised the purchases and obligations.
▪ Prepared Human Resources Main Program funding all EU projects in the sectors of human
resources development with a 7-year budget amounted more than €550 million.
▪ Created the mainstreaming strategy for human resources development in Turkey.
▪ Ran the evaluations of EU Employment funding to Turkey which transferred over €100 million in
Turkey from the EU.
▪ Prepared the business requirement document of Human Resources Program.
▪ Launched the Women in Business Programme of European Bank of Reconstruction and
Development, 6 national banks and 2 government institutions, created more than 500 women
entrepreneurs and reached 14000 women led business. 36.5 million Euros reached to a leverage
over 400 million euros with mentorship, workshops, micro credit support, guidance, training
activities http://www.ebrdwomeninbusiness.com.
▪ Built the purchasing conditions and the needs list for supply chain services.
▪ Executed procurement orders worth over €10 million.
▪ Conducted market research for supply proposal controls, supply and service tender dossiers.
▪ Completed the thesis of competence: Towards Green Jobs in Turkey: Agriculture, 2015.
03/01/2011 - 11/05/2013
Managing Partner – Vendor Management
Ekirpi (ekirpi.com) Ic Dis Ticaret, Adana (Turkey)
An international trade company focusing on electronics and office goods.
10/07/2019 - 31/08/2019
Trainee – Analyst
Eczacibasi Menkul Degerler A.S. (Finance, Securities), Ankara (Turkey)
One of the leading invesntment firms in Turkey specialized on stock brokerage and investments on
option market.
16/02/2009 - 28/06/2009
Student-Assistant
Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey)
Prepared the course materials and exams and delivered financial markets (recitation) lectures 2 hours
a week.
08/08/2008 - 07/09/2008
Trainee – Analyst
Borsa Istanbul (Istanbul Stock Exchange), Istanbul (Turkey)
Wrote a paper about the performance of USA bonds market.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
07/10/2019 - Present
Master’s Degree
ITC ILO, University of Turin, Torino (Italy)
Master of Arts / Science in Industrial and Employment Relations
04/09/2017 - Present
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Awarded a scholarship from EU Commission's Jean Monnet Program.
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The prospective thesis is about social dialogue, practices of related ILO standards in Turkey
with regards to progress towards the EU Membership.
Bachelor
Anadolu University, Eskisehir (Turkey)
Bachelor of Law.
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The program includes core and general law courses such as constitutional law,
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administrative law, civil law, penal law, law of obligations.
10/09/2013 - 20/09/2019
Master of Science
Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey)
MSc European Studies with thesis
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09/09/2004 - 23/01/2010
Thesis: Job Counselling in a Comparative Perspective: The Cases of Denmark, United
Kingdom and Turkey.
Bachelor of Science
Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey)
BSc in Economics
▪ Wrote research papers on public finance, trade, econometrics and labour economics.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Languages
Business skills
Native in Turkish, Fluent in English, Beginner in German.
▪ Project Cycle Management. Program and Contract management, monitoring, PRAG, procurement
▪ Grant and tender evaluation. SMART Indicators.
▪ Recuitment and management of short term experts and consultants
▪ Project designing and planning. IPA programming, EU funds, technical assistance.
▪ Budget preparation for operations and projects.
▪ Capacity building and technical assistance of project development.
▪ Financial calculations for trade and social security law, Nice classifications.
Digital skills
▪ Advanced user of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office tools.
▪ User of E-views, SPSS statistics, Minitab and SAS Statistics, SQL (beginner).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Honours and awards
▪ Holder of Jean Monnet Scholarship
▪ Holder of Tilburg University Scholarship of Success, Netherlands
▪ Letter of Gratitude for Volunteer works for Turkish Red Crescent Charity Concerts in METU in 2006
▪ Medals of the Blood Donor from Turkish Red Crescent
▪ Letter of Excellence for the Successful Evaluation of HRD OP, Ministry of Labour and Social Security
▪ Letter of Success for the Est. of Lifelong Learning Grants, Ministry of Labour and Social Security
Certifications
▪ Certificates from International Labour Organisation Trainings.
▪ International Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards of Turkey, Extended Trainings: Price
Waterhouse Coopers 2017.
▪ Advanced financial calculations of social security and pension schemes, Baskent University.
▪ Advanced Financial Calculations of contractual obligations of trade and liabilities, Baskent University.
▪ IPA II, Implementation, Budgets, Monitoring and Evaluation, Logical Framework, Twinning and
Harmonisation, European Institute of Public Administration, Barcelona, EU.
▪ Trainings related to programming, procurement, PCM and contract management.
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