Australia's Education Partnership with Indonesia - School Systems and Quality (AEPI SSQ) COMPONENT TWO: Management Information Systems/Systems Analyst Adviser Job Level and Professional Discipline Category:National position for an
initial input of twelve months extendable by an additional 12 months.
Location:Jakarta, with travel within Indonesia as required
Reports to: Component 2 Manager, Quality Education
Background
Australia’s Education Partnership with Indonesia (the Education Partnership) is currently the largest development assistance program funded by the Australian Government anywhere in the world. Through the Education Partnership Australia supports the Indonesian Government’s long-term strategy to strengthen and consolidate its national education system, with a particular focus on the current Indonesian five-year plan (2010 – 2014) and support for the initial stages of the subsequent five-year plan (2015 – 2019). The Education Partnership builds on the successes of previous Australian Government supports to the Indonesian education sector by strengthening government systems. Under the Education Partnership, there are three managing contractors with the largest, School Systems and Quality (SSQ) contract, being managed by Cardno Emerging Markets.
Each of the three SSQ-supported components is national in scope, supporting existing government structures and National Education Strategic Planning. Component 2 of the Education Partnership is mainly delivered through the Government of Indonesia’s systems using grant funding from Australia. The grant funding will be used to support the nationwide professional development of education personnel. Component 2 provides technical assistance to MoEC and MoRA as they implement training programs developed using AusAID funding under the Educational Partnership to develop the capacity of principals, supervisors and provincial and district education personnel.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The MIS/System Analyst Adviser will work with MoEC personnel to assist them
The Adviser will be required to develop professional and productive working relationships with key counterparts at the Board of Education and Culture Human Resource Development and Education Quality Assurance (Badan PSDMPK & PMP) at the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA), MoF and AusAID. The Adviser will work as a member of a team of advisers in Component 2 supporting MoEC and MoRA.
The Adviser will report to the Manager Component 2 and will be responsible for:
- Working with MoEC personnel to analyse its data management and data analysis needs to meet the requirements of the Grant Agreement.
- Supporting the design and development of an integrated management information system within Badan PSDMPK & PMP) to manage professional development monitoring and reporting activities.
- Conducting project management meetings with clients to assess needs and objectives as well as define project scope, goals, deliverables and time-lines and execute project to completion.
- Assisting with the design and implementation of an online delivery platform for professional development activities.
- Researching new software and technologies as they relate to a web-based LMS and recommend appropriate improvements to existing systems.
- Providing advice to MoEC personnel on the design and development of an appropriate learning management system (LMS).
- Providing technical expertise to administrators to include migrating e-learning courses from a test environment to a production environment, ensuring proper configuration settings, troubleshooting and problem solving any training issues.
- Assisting in training and capacity development of relevant MoEC personnel in MIS and related IT issues.
- Liaising with the Component 2 Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser to develop and enhance systems to manage and analyse monitoring and evaluation data.
- Contributing to effective working relationships between MoEC, AusAID and the Education Partnership.
- Preparing work plans and regular reports about achievements against agreed targets relating to the role.
- Providing advice and assistance to AusAID personnel through the Component 2 Manager.
- Other relevant duties as required.
Key Requirements for the Position
The MIS/Systems Analyst Adviser will require the following skills and experience:
The MIS/Systems Analyst Adviser will require the following skills and experience:
- Tertiary qualifications in information technology or related area
- At least five years’ experience as a systems analyst, or developing technology systems and data bases in the public or private sector
- Demonstrated capacity to analyse technology needs and to design appropriate solutions.
- Strong knowledge of data warehousing concepts and principles
- Demonstrated experience coding PHP
- Demonstrated experience using SQL to retrieve data from relational databases and working with learning management systems
- Demonstrated experience working with HTML, CSS and Javascript to create and maintain dynamic web pages.
- Excellent organisational and problem solving skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to liaise with stakeholders, particularly with Government of Indonesia counterparts, and national and international education specialists.
- Demonstrated capacity to work as part of team of professionals and contribute to the achievement of the team’s priorities.
- Highly self-motivated and demonstrated capacity to work independently.
- Capacity to communicate in English and Bahasa Indonesian
How to Apply for This Position
- Applications that do not address all the requirements stated above will not be considered.
- Response against each of the Key requirements for the position
- Curriculum vitae/resume.
- Name and contact details (phone and email) of three referees.
Submitting Applications . .
- By email: email your application with the reference "Management Information Systems Analyst Adviser" in the subject line to recruitment.emergingmarkets@cardno.com; or
- On-line application. Go to www.cardno.com/careers and search for this position. Click "Apply for this job" located at the end of the job description
For enquiry, please email recruitment.emergingmarkets@cardno.com with reference "QUERY- SSQ - Management Information Systems Analyst Adviser position".
Closing Date 5.00pm (Jakarta time), 26 June 2013. Late applications will not be considered.
