Reannounced-Database Developer

About Ministry of Education (MoE)

Job Summary

Education Management Information System (EMIS) as an integrated information system encompassing student, teacher, infrastructure, curriculum development and distribution, administrative data, and other education related data management components based on national and international standards to automate Ministry of Education day to day operation in the long run. And grant provision of timely and accurate information for sectoral and cross sectoral analysis, planning and decision making purposes as an immediate objective. Furthermore EMIS will function as the main data bank of the Education Ministry. It involves analysis, design, development and implementation of information systems distributed by location using data standards to ensure data sharing and integration. MoE has conducted a survey of all educational facilities that forms the baseline for education data and has developed a database to hold the survey data, which is the first building block for the development of the EMIS. The EMIS needs to be further developed and enhanced in order to fulfill the intermediate and long term data needs of the ministry.
Ministry of education needs competent and qualified staff to develop additional EMIS components and enhance current EMIS modules.

Duties & Responsibilities

Database Developer will be responsible for;

Programming of software modules for different MoE systems

Design , develop and implement relational databases using Access and MS- SQL

Optimize database systems for performance efficiency

Develop website user interface (forms) to modify and update the data in the data bases

Evaluate existing database and recommend improvements for performance efficiency.

Develop security procedures to protect databases from unauthorized usage.

Troubleshoot database related issues in a timely fashion.

Perform data back-up and archival on regular basis.

Ensure data quality and integrity in databases

Create complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development.

Perform space management and capacity planning for database systems.

Assist in development of MoE website

Assist the data analyst in data cleaning and production of regular and ad-hoc statistical reports

Assist the system analyst in liaising with MoE departments to analyze the existing systems and assist in software design

Maintain existing EMIS components in collaboration with team members

Assist in collection and integration of external data

Assist in software documentation and preparation of user manuals.

Job Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science/information technology

At least Four years of practical experience in computer application development database development and programming.

Practical knowledge of database design and database development

Working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET

Working knowledge of RDBMS, SQL Server and MS ACCESS.

Maintains confidentiality of data and respects data dissemination policies

Submission Guideline

Interested Afghan candidates should submit their letter of interest (cover letter) along with the updated resumes to:
HRMU, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
Deh Afghanan, Ministry of Education, 4th floor first Corridor first office, Kabul, Afghanistan
no later than 18th April 2017, candidates who have access to the Internet can send their applications to the below email.


You are requested to send your letter of interest along with the updated resume in Word or PDF file. Please mention post title and vacancy number in the subject line of your email. However, do not email us heavy sized files such as your certificates, recommendation letters and etc. THOSE WHO DO NOT FULFILL THE APPLYING REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORTLIST. Only short listed candidates will be contacted with, and called for the test and interview. The test & interview dates, time and place will be determined and communicated with the short listed candidates only sooner after the deadline of vacancy announcement.

Ministry of Education is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
MoE does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices on the basis of race, sex, handicap, religion, ethnic origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Candidates with disabilities and qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Functional Area

IT - Software

Countries

Submission Email

applications.worldbank@moe.gov.af

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