National Consultancy: IT Specialist for Disability Allowance and Cash-transfer Program for Pregnant Women and Children Verified

• Organization: Unicef
• Country: Cambodia
• City: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Office: UNICEF in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

School/Unit: Cambodia

Department/Office: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Categories: Social and Economic Policy, Consultancy

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, opportunity.

UNICEF began providing assistance to Cambodia in 1952 and has been working since then to improve the wellbeing of Cambodian children. UNICEF established its first country office in 1973 in the capital of Phnom Penh. More information on what we do in Cambodia is available at https://www.unicef.org/cambodia/.

How can you make a difference?

The first area of work for of this consultancy is to provide IT assistance to MoSVY to develop the disability identification APP and MIS for nationwide disability data collection using a rights-based approach. In addition, capacity development to MoSVY official to use and manage App/MIS will be part of this consultancy.

The second area of work is to provide support to the MIS network of the ongoing CT programme for pregnant women and children and to train the IT staff of MoSVY in network services. In addition, support needs to be provided to MoSVY to adjust the CTP app/ MIS to integrate Covid-19 response if necessary.

Work Assignments/TOR:

I. Disability Allowance App/MIS development

• Project Inception Report
• System Requirement Specification (SRS) and System Design Document (SDD)
• Disability App and MIS Systems:
• Training:
• Technical Documentation
• Roll-out and implementation
• Biweekly Status Reporting

II. Ongoing IT support to the MIS for the cash-transfer programme for pregnant women and children

• Update layout mobile for MoH user
• Contribute to the updating of missing data in system and completing some unfinished functions
• Daily, Weekly and monthly backup date of Cash Transfer Data and Systems
• Configure and maintain the network servers
• Manage the network security, e.g. firewall, anti-virus and intrusion detection
• Identify and troubleshoot, solve and document network connectivity and performance issues
• Monitor network performance and optimize the network for optimal speed and availability

• Install, configure and maintain network hardware, e.g. cisco routers, switcher etc.
• Implement and maintain emergency backup and restore systems
• Liaise with other team members to assist with technical solutions
• Train and assist MoSVY IT team members to build IT capacity
• IT support for the development of a new function for the COVID-19 response in the App/MIS of the cash-transfer programme

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Qualifications and Experience

• Academic qualification at University level in business & IT, digital systems or other relevant subjects
• At least 5 years of professional experience in DevOPS, PHP, React and Javascript
• At least 3 years of progressive experience working with systems design and/or systems management

Knowledge and Skills

• Proven ability to manage development environment and production systems
• Proven knowledge and understanding of operational systems, applications, you designed and/or contribute code
• Proven experience on complex database structures and IT infrastructure (IPv4 networks and subnets, Routing, Firewalls, Switch networks, Virtual machines, Hypervisors)
• Solid knowledge about virtualization technologies

Competencies of Successful Candidate

• Communication
• Working with people
• Drive for results
• Applying technical expertise

Languages

• Fluency in spoken and written Khmer and English

To view detail Terms of Reference for this assignment, please click here TOR for IT Specialist for disability allowance and cash-transfer.pdf

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The competencies required for this post are….

View our competency framework at

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Advertised: Apr 17 2020 SE Asia Standard Time Application close: Apr 30 2020 SE Asia Standard Time

source: https://unjobs.org/vacancies/1587325739175