Job offer: Information System and Database Specialist

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is the inter-governmental organization, working with the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam to address common interest, jointly manage shared water resources, and promote sustainable development of the Mekong River.

As a regional facilitating and advisory body, governed by water and environment ministers of the four countries, the MRC aims to ensure that (a) Mekong water resources are managed and developed in the most efficient and sustainable manner for the mutual benefits all Member Countries and (b) any harmful impacts on people and the environment in the Lower Mekong Basin are minimised.

To support our operation, the MRC Secretariat is now recruiting a highly qualified candidate for the two positions below:

DIVISION: Technical Support Division

JOB SUMMARY/JOB STATEMENT

The jobholder coordinates and carries out common and shared platform for data and knowledge management for MRC. He or she enables the MRCS to store, share and exchange datasets and other technical information in close collaboration with all MRCS divisions as well as with related national, regional and international institutions. He or she ensures information and knowledge management, sustainable handling processes, coherent data quality assurance including integrity and consistency of data, in line with the MRC quality standards – making sure that relevant knowledge and products developed by the MRC are available at the national level to assist decision-making processes. Moreover, he or she ensures the provision of data from MRC Dialogue Partners, China and Myanmar, from cooperation partners and other partners and stakeholders.

Duties

• Under the management direction of the Division Director and technical advice of the Chief Hydrologist, the incumbent performs the following duties:
• Coordinate internally and with national agencies to clearly define data required, priority data sets for further development and agreement on data access, including consultations with member countries to define core data sets, parameters, frequencies and spatial distribution in line with the MRC indicator framework;
• Ensure timely provision and efficient national coordination of data by national agencies and strong coordination with data custodians in Member Countries;
• Coordinate internally to strengthen regional data management and integration into the overall MRC Information System (MRC-IS);
• Manage the MRC-IS infrastructure and data portal in collaboration with IT Officer;
• Evaluate the performance of the MRC IS;
• Support effective data quality assurance at both national and regional levels;
• Maintain and regularly upgrade the approaches and system design to maintain latest techniques for data management;
• Strengthen data coordination, data sharing and data management capacity of national agencies and partners;
• Develop, maintain and update the MRC’s centralised and relational database and filing system, composing of hydrological data and sector databases (hydropower, irrigation, flood, water supply, etc)
• Develop and maintain the MRC centralised filing system of all produced technical reports and working papers for easy access and use;
• Provide technical support to the work of the MRC’s regional technical/expert group related to MRC-IS and data/information management (if applicable), and contribute to the work of other regional groups as required;
• Ensure that relevant knowledge and products developed by the MRC are available at the national level to assist decision-making processes;
• Contribute to and support the implementation of the MRC Procedures, particularly the PDIES, in close consultation with the relevant specialist in the Planning Division;
• Provide timely support on data and information to the assessments of risks and impacts of decisions on water resources management and development in the basin;
• Under the management direction of the Director and technical guidance of the Chief Hydrologist, work closely with specialists and officers responsible for MRC’s monitoring and modelling activities to ensure centralised, updated and consistent data and knowledge management and provision;
• Perform any other relevant tasks as required.

Requirements

• Certificate
• University degree (Master or higher) in Computer sciences, Information Technology or in any other academic field relevant to information system and database management
• Additional certificates
• TOEIC certificate with 600 points and over is required. An equivalent internationally recognized certificate or a university degree from an internationally recognized academic institution whose instruction is in English may also be considered.
• Experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in system management, relational database design and web application development, system supports and administrations in Windows 2008/2003 and Linux CentOS servers, and ArcGIS/ArcSDE license servers.