CONSULTANT-DATA BASE ADMINISTRATOR

Location : Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Blantyre, MALAWI
Application Deadline : 07-Jan-08
Type of Contract : SSA
Languages Required : English

Starting Date :
(date when the selected canditate is expected to start) 01-Feb-2008
Duration of Initial Contract : 2 Months
Expected Duration of Assignment : 2 Months
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Background

Following the 2004 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections a UNDP between the ballot boxes programme was developed and implemented with the support of the Government of Malawi and Malawi’s development partners.

The key purpose of the technical assistance is to provide capacity building across the MEC to strengthen its ability to conduct elections, independence, accounting and procurement systems, public image, and internal and external communications capacity.

The anticipated output includes the ability to conduct free, fair, and transparent elections supported by effective and standards compliant accounting and procurement systems.

Additionally, stakeholders must see these elections as more legitimate and cost-effective with a shorter preparation time. Target elections are 2009 and beyond.

Key activities which are underway include:

* a move to a new MEC headquarters building to strengthen team building and security
* procurement of and enabling information and communications network platform to connect the headquarters and the 3 regional offices
* the implementation of a revised organisation chart
* recruitment of a long term elections adviser, and
* an in place ICT consultant

Malawi’s population is estimated at approximately 12 million.MEC’s development and deployment goal is to implement web based applications across its intranet and the internet. The primary anticipated benefit is to reduce system and application maintenance overhead on client workstations by accessing applications via a web browser.

These are significant goals and benefits as the requirement is to have client workstations at any location in the country, local as well as remote, within a secure network.

The primary target for 2007 and 2008 is to implement a MEC intranet across headquarters and to its 3 regional offices which can easily extend to the 28 districts as supporting infrastructure becomes available. Internet coverage extends to the 3 regions but does not completely cover the country.

Duties and Responsibilities

* Easy website content maintenance (addition, update, archival) by authorised end users
* Website role based login supporting different access levels
* Secure intranet website framework
* Secure extranet website framework
* Secure internet website framework
* Performance tuned websites A technical framework specification developed together with Malawi Electoral Commission’s ICT Manager and the ICT Consultant
* Identification of Malawi Electoral Commission(MEC) staff skills gaps with recommended remedial action
* Full technical reference documentation covering all aspects of the technical implementation
* Fully trained Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) ICT Department staff to permit site maintenance and development within MEC after the consultancyalawi Electoral Commission (MEC)’s development and deployment goal is to implement web based applications across its intranet and the internet.
* The primary anticipated benefit is to reduce system and application maintenance overhead on client workstations by accessing applications via a web browser.
* These are significant goals and benefits as the requirement is to have client workstations at any location in the country, local as well as remote, within a secure network.
* The primary target for 2007 and 2008 is to implement a MEC intranet across headquarters and to its 3 regional offices which can easily extend to the 28 districts as supporting infrastructure becomes available. Internet coverage extends to the 3 regions but does not completely cover the country.

Competencies

* Demonstrated ability to work with little supervision
* Demonstrated ability to work within a team
* Demonstrated ability to build client staff capacity through structured knowledge transfer
* Demonstrated experience with administering and securing multiple Windows 2005 SQL Server instances environments
* Demonstrated ability to work with the tools outlined in the technical environment above
* Demonstrated experience with SharePoint server would be an asset
* SADC region work experience would be an asset

Required Skills and Experience

* Minimum of 5 years experience as a corporate database administrator
* Minimum of a BSc in Computing and Information Science
* SQL Server 2005 database administration certification would be an asset