Opportunity Type: Job
Organization<Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan
Afghanistan
About the Organization:
The Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) is the apex developmental finance promoting agency in Afghanistan. MISFA was set up in 2003 with a mission to facilitate the development and growth of a long-term, strong, and healthy microfinance sector in Afghanistan that provides high quality and efficient financial services to low income people.
About the Job:
The Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) is seeking a Database Administration Advisor. S/he willbe responsible for operationalizing the client database, with smooth data updation and access performance.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Increase capacity among MISFA and partner MFIs to understand and interpret client database reports;
- Increase capacity of MISFA staff to operate and/or manage the client database independently;
- Assess issues at the partner MFIs in providing correct and up-to-date data in the specified format;
- Assist partner MFIs with generating, understanding, and interpreting client database reports;
- Create additional reports for MISFA or for sector inquiries, where necessary;
- Provide orientation and introduction to the system to local nationals (English speaking) who will provide on-going support.
Qualifications:
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of database development - database administration, database tuning, database management, database security, and RDBMS;
- At least 3 years' experience in database development and management;
- Languages - SQL, PL/SQL;
- DB - SQL server;
- Tools - triggers, views, cursors, packages, and exceptions;
- Performance tuning in SQL and stored procedures;
- Develop and maintain applications in SQL server;
- Design and build systems to increase performance and scalability of SQL applications;
- Ability to program in ASP.NET, C#, VB, CSS, Javascript, and HTML;
- Advanced knowledge of all MS Office products, particularly Access;
- Fluency (spoken and written) in English.