Senior Data & Apps Development Specialist

Location: Remote
APPLICATIONS CLOSE 19^th January 2025, 5 PM Jakarta time

Program Background

The SKALA Program is a significant Australian investment designed to help Indonesia address regional disparities in development. SKALA will contribute to this objective by strengthening selected elements of Indonesia’s large and complex decentralised government system responsible for the delivery of basic services (Layanan Dasar). The SKALA Program’s core approach is to facilitate better collaboration (Kolaborasi) between Indonesian government stakeholders, at national and subnational levels, to help realise synergies (Sinergi) that will trigger improved service delivery. Moreover, SKALA will build on, and take to scale, the successes and learning from Australia’s previous 19 years of support to Indonesia’s decentralised government system. The SKALA Program is to be implemented through the following three pillars:

• Pillar 1: Stronger national level enabling environment for sub-national service delivery 
• Pillar 2: Better sub-national governance for service delivery
• Pillar 3: Greater participation, representation and influence for women, people with disabilities and vulnerable groups

SKALA is implemented at the national level with an office in Jakarta and at the subnational level with offices in Aceh, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Maluku, Gorontalo, Kalimantan Utara, Tanah Papua. In addition to the 3 pillars, SKALA works across 4 general themes of Public Financial Management, Minimum Service Standards, Data and Analysis and GEDSI.

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The Role
Senior Data & Apps Development Specialist will assist SKALA and its government counterparts, especially Bappenas and MOHA by providing expertise and technical input on the improvement and implementation of SEPAKAT (village and district level) that utilizes socio-economic Data. The Consultant will be preparing capacity building to government staffs in Bappenas to manage the SEPAKAT system. The Consultant will be supporting the integration of SEPAKAT with other national and sub-national systems, including but not limited to SIPD, SIKD, Prodeskel, Siskeudes, SIGAP, SAIK+, SIO Papua, etc.

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About You

Specific Responsibilities        

• Provide technical expertise to enhance national unified socio-economic data utilization through the development of SEPAKAT to ensure readiness for scaling for national utilisation.
• Provide advisory and technical input to business process of system integration design in consultation with SKALA and government counterparts ensuring data, especially data on gender, disability, vulnerable and its’ analysis from unified socio-economic data source can be accessed easily and timely.
• Lead in development and improvement of SEPAKAT application (website and desktop) including completion of SEPAKAT modules for village and ward, i.e.  data updating, on-demand registration, profile analysis, geotagging, planning and budgeting, and services.
• Perform data cleansing to identify consistency and inaccuracies of unified socio-economic dataset to be available for access and analysis in SEPAKAT application.
• Assist in development of system integration at national level to ensure unified socio-economic data is available in the SEPAKAT application and ready to share with local/village level information system.
• Provide input to national and sub-national data governance policies to ensure effectiveness on the use of SEPAKAT for unified socio-economic data for planning and budgeting processes.  
• Work closely with SKALA’s information and technology support team to assist system integration, including with SIPD, SIGAP, SAIK+, SIO Papua and other local information systems  
• Provide input to government policies and guidelines for regional governments on the use of newly updated SEPAKAT for planning, budgeting, and services. 
• Assist in knowledge and skills transfer to government counterpart ensuring capacity exist for SEPAKAT system management.
• Develop frequently asked questions and answers for SEPAKAT users
• Other tasks as requested by SKALA.

Other Duties

• Comply with DFAT, DT Global and SKALA policies on gender, disability, fraud and anticorruption, child protection, PSEAH and the environment.
• Ensure compliance and adherence to various operational policies, guidelines and manuals issued by DT Global and SKALA.

Job Requirements

• Work environment involves only infrequent exposure to disagreeable elements and minor physical exertion and/or strain.
• Work may require long, and flexible hours as needed. Travel is based on need. 

Deliverables

• Report on analysis of SEPAKAT app and identification on improvement needed.
• Documented SEPAKAT business process and system development. 
• Documented input to development design and finalization of micro-data updating system for handover.
• Documented input of data-sharing apps and business procedures, as well as interoperability with information systems at the village level.
• Documented input of macro-micro data processing, analysis, matching on SEPAKAT.
• Documented input of development of minimum standard services (MSS) features, climate change conditions, and disasters in SEPAKAT.
• Source codes, algorithm, and hand over documentation to government counterparts.
• Documentation of developing, testing, and deploying SEPAKAT from the source codes. 
• Documented process of policy and guidelines development for SEPAKAT operationalisation. 
• Frequently asked questions and answers for SEPAKAT users.
• Frequently asked questions and answers for new application or update application. 

Relationship Management

The role will be working closely with the Data and Analytics unit and Government counterparts, under close coordination and reporting to the Data and Analytic Lead. 

Selection Criteria

Essential

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information and Technology, or related field with a minimum of 15 years’ experience, including familiarity with SEPAKAT and SEPAKAT-SIPD integration   
• Familiarity with development indicator, i.e. poverty, midterm planning, minimum service standards, etc. 
• Excellent skills and proven experiences in developing software engineering and security system for Ministries
• Experience developing projects using CodeIgniter or Laravel and using a database such as MySQL or MariaDB. Also, integration system using webhook or API. 
• Experience with CI/CD such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Vagrant, Docker, Supervisor, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Experience using AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience with a unit test like cypress.
• Excellent skills and proven experiences in open-source system (LINUX or UNIX) programming.
• Familiar with PHP, HTML, CSS.
• Proven record of strong performance working in teams (teamwork) as well as working independently to deliver quality work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal communication skills. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to achieve goals.  

Preferred

• Experienced working with Government of Indonesia
• Experienced working on community development projects involving government and development partners, especially related to social protection for people with disabilities. 

HOW TO APPLY
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Please submit
1) Your CV
2) A cover letter addressing the selection criteria

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 19^th January 2025, 5 PM Jakarta time 
  
Should this role be of interest, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.  Kindly note only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

DT Global is committed to child protection and safeguarding the welfare of children in the delivery of our international development programs. We are committed to Safety and the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH), and bribery prevention. DT Global is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage women, men, people with diverse backgrounds and people living with disabilities to apply. This program is funded by the Australian Government and Managed by DT Global.