Deadline of this Job: 15 November 2022
JOB SUMMARY
To plan, organize, manage staff and overall operations to ensure stable operations of the bank’s Database Systems through best practices and the appropriate collaboration with technical, business and third party organizations. Resourcefulness is a necessary skill in this role. Your goal will be to ensure appropriate database management and coordination of changes to computer databases, testing and implementing databases using database management systems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To ensure high availability (24/7) of the entire Database Infrastructure of the Bank through best practices and the appropriate collaboration with technical, business and third party organizations.
• Install and configure Banks databases.
• Responsible for managing, troubleshooting and proactively updating database software assets to prevent downtime or zero-day exploits from occurring.
Design, organize, modify, and support an organization’s database systems.
• Quickly resolve any database system failures and troubleshoots issues and outages.
• Upgrade database systems with new releases and models.
• Manage user accounts, credentials, permissions, access rights and storage allocations
• Secure databases system integrity from any breaches or viruses and play an essential role in riskmitigation planning, including creating backup plans, safeguards for data, user security policies, and identity management.
• Develop and execute a backup and recovery plan.
• Maintaining the asset inventory for the database systems.
• Responsible for the compliance of all the database related licenses. Ensure timely renewal of the same.
• To liaise with external suppliers and support agencies for the ongoing support and maintenance of relevant database hardware and software. Ensure timely processing of the invoices.
• Review vendor contracts and assist in negotiating with vendors for the purpose of providing the bank cost effective and reliable services.
JOB SUMMARY
To plan, organize, manage staff and overall operations to ensure stable operations of the bank’s Database Systems through best practices and the appropriate collaboration with technical, business and third party organizations. Resourcefulness is a necessary skill in this role. Your goal will be to ensure appropriate database management and coordination of changes to computer databases, testing and implementing databases using database management systems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To ensure high availability (24/7) of the entire Database Infrastructure of the Bank through best practices and the appropriate collaboration with technical, business and third party organizations.
• Install and configure Banks databases.
• Responsible for managing, troubleshooting and proactively updating database software assets to prevent downtime or zero-day exploits from occurring.
Design, organize, modify, and support an organization’s database systems.
• Quickly resolve any database system failures and troubleshoots issues and outages.
• Upgrade database systems with new releases and models.
• Manage user accounts, credentials, permissions, access rights and storage allocations
• Secure databases system integrity from any breaches or viruses and play an essential role in riskmitigation planning, including creating backup plans, safeguards for data, user security policies, and identity management.
• Develop and execute a backup and recovery plan.
• Maintaining the asset inventory for the database systems.
• Responsible for the compliance of all the database related licenses. Ensure timely renewal of the same.
• To liaise with external suppliers and support agencies for the ongoing support and maintenance of relevant database hardware and software. Ensure timely processing of the invoices.
• Review vendor contracts and assist in negotiating with vendors for the purpose of providing the bank cost effective and reliable services.
Deadline of this Job: 21 November 2022
Role Purpose
The Research Specialist supports the research and consulting arms of Busara by managing the design, planning, analysis, presentation and publication of gender focused behavioral science research projects led by the Research and Innovation Director. The role holder will lead many aspects of gender and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) focused research; particularly in planning, designing, implementing, and analyzing lab experiments and field randomized controlled trials, conducting literature reviews, developing interventions, analyzing data, preparing working papers and online content and contributing research support such as budgeting, writing grants, preparing IRBs, and liaising with research partners. The role has an internal facing component which will involve synthesizing the evidence base, assessing current policies against that research base and providing recommendations and reports.
The Research Specialist is Busara’s subject matter expert on experimental design, and provides a technical core to project teams to ensure high standards of rigor on gender and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) focused research projects.
Key Responsibilities
Manage a current portfolio of gender focused projects. Project manage current portfolio by coordinating with lab and projects division staff (20%):
• Lead experimental design for lab and field studies on a variety of internal and external projects and design lab and field research instruments.
• Generate key research inputs, such as pre-analysis plans, experimental protocols, analysis code templates, and data check templates.
• Manage the project team toward project implementation and success; manage project budgets and timelines.
• Analyze data from experiments and transform data into graphs and other presentable output.
Contribute to new proposal and project development. Support to increase business development opportunities and strengthening partnerships (20%):
• Identify and track funding opportunities and requests for proposals relevant to Busara
• Support proposal writing by fleshing out ideas and skeleton structures for review and submission
• Support in building out academic networks and practitioner partners; organize and coordinate external partner meetings
• Draft client-facing materials as necessary
Other Vacancies
Role Purpose
The Research Specialist supports the research and consulting arms of Busara by managing the design, planning, analysis, presentation and publication of gender focused behavioral science research projects led by the Research and Innovation Director. The role holder will lead many aspects of gender and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) focused research; particularly in planning, designing, implementing, and analyzing lab experiments and field randomized controlled trials, conducting literature reviews, developing interventions, analyzing data, preparing working papers and online content and contributing research support such as budgeting, writing grants, preparing IRBs, and liaising with research partners. The role has an internal facing component which will involve synthesizing the evidence base, assessing current policies against that research base and providing recommendations and reports.
The Research Specialist is Busara’s subject matter expert on experimental design, and provides a technical core to project teams to ensure high standards of rigor on gender and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) focused research projects.
Key Responsibilities
Manage a current portfolio of gender focused projects. Project manage current portfolio by coordinating with lab and projects division staff (20%):
• Lead experimental design for lab and field studies on a variety of internal and external projects and design lab and field research instruments.
• Generate key research inputs, such as pre-analysis plans, experimental protocols, analysis code templates, and data check templates.
• Manage the project team toward project implementation and success; manage project budgets and timelines.
• Analyze data from experiments and transform data into graphs and other presentable output.
Contribute to new proposal and project development. Support to increase business development opportunities and strengthening partnerships (20%):
• Identify and track funding opportunities and requests for proposals relevant to Busara
• Support proposal writing by fleshing out ideas and skeleton structures for review and submission
• Support in building out academic networks and practitioner partners; organize and coordinate external partner meetings
• Draft client-facing materials as necessary
Other Vacancies
Deadline of this Job: 27 November 2022
Deadline of this Job: 27 November 2022
Deadline of this Job: 27 November 2022
Deadline of this Job: 27 November 2022