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Development Pathways is a growing consultancy firm specializing in social policy in international development. The company brings together a group of international development practitioners - and an expanding network of consultants - with extensive experience of working on social protection, social development, management information systems, gender and soci...
Location of Work: Based in the Development Pathways’ office in Nairobi, Kenya
Contract: This is a short term contractual post with a 1-month probationary period
Reporting to: Senior Management Information Systems Specialist
Assignment Duration: approx. 70 days with possibility of contract on other international management information system (MIS) projects depending on satisfactory performance
Salary: Competitive
Development Pathways is currently seeking a Systems Analyst to support the design of an integrated Management Information System for a cash transfer programme. This position will be based in Kenya and will contribute to the development of an integrated cash transfer management information, with the aim of underpinning the administration and monitoring of the scheme, alongside a manual of operations for the MIS, security protocols and a policy on the management of the data.
The systems Analyst working closely with a team leader, developers and quality assurance specialists is required with specific remit of translating the high-level requirements into detailed system requirements which will describe integrated cash transfer MIS business processes into processes maps, use case diagrams, entity relationship diagrams and data flow diagrams; document system interfaces (User Experience – UX and User Interface – UI) and develop data models.
Responsibilities
The Systems Analyst will be responsible for the following duties:
Responsible for ensuring stakeholders are aligned with and aware of the strategy, vision, capability and constraints of the Integrated Cash Transfer MIS platform and operating model;
Ensuring requirements and design adhere to scope and objectives;
Translate the high-level requirements into detailed system requirements which will describe Integrated Cash Transfer MIS business processes into low level processes maps, use case diagrams and data flow diagrams;
Production of wireframes, user interface specifications, creating visual prototypes, and ensuring the Integrated Cash Transfer MIS outputs have the user experience in mind;
Documentation of the database design, data models, entity relationship diagrams;
Communication of functional design and quality criteria to the development team;
Focal point for queries / issues related to system functionality through all phases of the project;
Design, development, test and maintain the integration architecture between Integrated Cash Transfer MIS and external MISs and databases;
Support the Senior Software and Database Developer to design and implement the appropriate architecture and development framework to meet the requirements; and
Build a pre-production environment with test harness to simulate data from external platforms to facilitate and support testing.
Person Specifications
The Systems Analyst must have the following qualifications, skills and competencies:
Essential
Desirable
Interested candidates who meet the requirements to email their applications to recruitment@developmentpathways.co.uk
Applications should include:
The closing date is 5pm (GMT) on Monday, 23rd October 2017. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and a successful candidate may be selected prior to the closing date.
Due to the high number of applications expected, unfortunately only successful candidates will be contacted.
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