Database Development and Management
Position Title: Database Manager
Background
The International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) is a Research and Training institution focusing on regional peace support capacity building to respond to conflicts through preventive, management, and peace building measures.
The centre is a key player in the African Peace and Security Architecture with its strategic focus in the Eastern African Region and wishes to engage a competent expert in the area of Database Development and Management.
The job holder will be responsible for maintaining IPSTC’s databases, entering new data, updating information, and working with the current developer and IPSTC staff to develop new databases.
Management Arrangements
Reporting directly to the Director, the Database Manager will also take direction from the Training Co-ordinator and will be required to work closely with other IPSTC staff to develop and maintain databases.
Duties
The job entails both Back-end (Database System) and Front-end (End User Development) and will undertake the following among other tasks.
- Maintain existing IPSTC databases;
- Collect and organize information pertaining to training and management of IPSTC.
- Definition and construction of required Logical Database models
- Definition of database security, integrity and recovery
- Determination of hardware and software requirements
- Testing of databases
- Definition of tools to be used for design and development of front end applications
- Development of TMS application software for end user interaction with the database
- Clean and enter updated and new data into TMS database, including addressing problems with data provided to TMS Installation of TMS application on user computers
- Conduct end user training and technical manuals
- Provide regular reports on the status of databases;
- Modification of database structures, entry forms and reports as required;
- Design and development of new databases;
- Regular up-dating of IPSTC website
- Liaise with staff in other organisations to facilitate the flow of information;
- Other duties as requested by the Training Coordinator or Director
Qualification and Professional Experience
- Degree in Computer Science and an advanced degree in Computer Based Information Systems
- 5 years relevant experience in the area of database development and management
- Experience in design and development of complex software applications, multi user databases for both window based and Intranet/ Internet based programs
- A strong knowledge of Oracle and SQL server or My-SQL DBMS products working HTML knowledge or web development program, ability to write JAVA script, working knowledge of TCP/IP and other networking protocols
- Experience in Document management
- Strong writing and presentation skills
- Positive attitude towards working in a team and helping other people
- Database certification and conventional computer programming language are an added advantage.
Deadline for submitting applications is 5th August 2011
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