Pakistan: Database Manager

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Sector Programme (KESP) – Terms of Reference

Fixed Term Technical Assistance: Database Managers

Programme Background

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Sector Programme (KESP) Technical Assistance (TA) team’s mission is to work at provincial, sub-provincial and school levels to provide comprehensive, flexible and high quality technical support to the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the delivery of its strategy and priorities for transforming education service delivery. The TA constitutes a component of the wider DFID and DFAT-funded KESP programme, which also includes Sector Budget Support, and an infrastructure component.

A new Education Sector Plan (ESP) for the period 2015-2020 has recently been launched, with an accompanying Joint Review Framework (JRF) and describes the KP Government’s comprehensive and ambitious strategy for the development of the elementary and secondary school sector in the Province. It details ten priorities: (i) redeveloping the approach to training and selecting new teachers; (ii) developing a consolidated, needs based, high quality approach to CPD; (iii) redeveloping teaching cadre employment rules; (iv) establishing a sustainable approach to provision of facilities; (v) launching new benefits aimed at children most at risk of educational deprivation; (vi) scaling up partnerships with the private sector; (vii) launching a draw down fund for use in emergency situations; (viii) testing and updating of population data; (ix) developing of district officials’ management skills; and (x) pegging the education budget to inflation.

Purpose of Role

To support Director Education and Delivery Manger Districts to monitor the execution of current and development budget in all the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Background

Headline Policy 9 of ESP 2015-20, advocates the development of district officials management skills in three key areas of a) Information Management b) Budgeting and financial management and c) planning. In order to implement the policy 9 and its resultant activities at district level, KESP TA aims to establish a District Delivery Unit at Directorate of Education, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Scope of work of District Delivery Unit will entail three broad areas of delivery which are mentioned as follows:

1. 
   

   Development and Monitoring of District Education Plans in 25 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;

   
   


2. 
   

   Monitoring the Budget Execution (current and development) in all the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;

   
   


3. 
   

   Monitoring the execution of Conditional Grants at district level.

   
   

Delivery Manger Districts will head the district Delivery Unit. The unit will provide support to the Directorate to develop the capacity of District Education Officials for improved service delivery and effective governance.

Responsibilities

The Database Manager will undertake the following tasks:

• Regularly gather budget execution data from 5 District Delivery Advisors (DDA) and punch/feed data into Budget Execution Tracker;


• Prepare Budget Execution Report in consultation with five District Delivery Advisors, on fortnightly basis, indicating the status, release and execution of budget (current non-salary and development) in all the 25 districts;


• Prepare Budget Execution Report Card indicating the status of utilization of resources for all the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;


• Submit the fortnightly progress report to Director Education and Delivery Manager Districts;


• Database Administrator will perform database management, modelling, supervising, maintaining and back-up procedures on monthly basis;


• Database Administrator will also conduct database cleaning, merging, verification and validation of data with the help of Programmer;


• Any other task assigned by Director Education and Delivery Manager Districts;

Indicative milestones (subject to quarterly revision)

Deliverables

· Regularly update Budget Execution Tracker;

· Provide fortnightly progress reports on status of development budget execution for 25 districts.

Additional activities

The Director Education (Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Deliver Manager Districts (Adam Smith International) may assign additional tasks.

Qualification and Experience

• At least BSCS or MCS from reputable Institute/University


• MCSA-SQL SERVER certification


• 5-7 years of experience

Duration

130 days from December 2015 – June 2016.

Location of work

The adviser will be based in District Delivery Unit at Directorate of Education in Peshawar, Pakistan.