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1. Background
DAI,
an international consulting firm based in the United States, is currently
accepting applications from candidates for a Climate and Weather Information Specialist position
in Jakarta to support the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) Adaptasi Perubahan Iklim dan
Ketangguhan Project in Indonesia (APIK).
APIK will support the Government of Indonesia to strengthen climate and
disaster resilience, working in an integrated manner from the national level
down to the community level. APIK will help to mainstream climate change
adaptation and disaster risk reduction into national and sub-national governance
frameworks, build the capacity of local communities and the private sector to
address climate change and weather-related natural hazards, and support the use
of information for climate and disaster risk management among key stakeholders.
Task 3
focuses on the collection, packaging, and dissemination of climate and weather
information (CWI) services. Better climate and weather information systems are
fundamental to fostering place-based resilience across the archipelago, saving
lives in the near term (i.e. disaster risk reduction) while supporting better
planning and public investment in the medium to long term (i.e. climate change
adaptation).
Based on 2016’s
APIK’s CWIS Assessment Report, many BMKG product aren’t deliver in specific
geographical level & specific user perspective. For example, the farmers
need to access the monthly seasonal rainfall prediction, for his/her
village/sub-district context. In Sulawesi and Maluku, the climate information
in details was produced in the Bulletin form (hardcopy) or in PDF format
(softcopy). The dissemination methodology is conducted by circulating the
printed version to several government agencies, with the expectations that
local governments will spread it again to the community. During our assessment,
we found out that this method is less run optimally. Currently through Climate
Field School Program and several Socialization program, we try to encourage the
beneficiaries (farmers, fisherfolks, community members, etc.) to access the
information directly by mobile application, websites, WhatsApp group, etc. However,
the climate information that available in the existing BMKG website
(bmkg.go.id), are presented in national level with low resolution. Some BMKG
stations (e.g. Karangploso/Malang Climatological Station or Juanda/Surabaya
Meteorological Station) have taken the initiative to create their own website.
This is needed to facilitate public access to climate or weather information.
However, not all stations have same budget and capacity to build the website
(e.g. Sulawesi Tenggara and Maluku).
Meanwhile, BMKG
Head Office planned to standardize the website for each of Provincial Level. So
every station has to combine its website (if any) to become one website at
coordinator’s level (provincial level). The platform shall be hosted and under
BMKG main website (bmkg.go.id) and use the same standard.
Therefore, APIK
planned to support BMKG to develop template of Provincial Level Website of BMKG
that focusses on specific information for each province region.
2. Objectives and Duties:
·
To
develop BMKG website at provincial level to produce more focus and specific
Meteorological, Climatological & Geophysical information for its province.
·
To
produce more specific information for farmers & fisherman (agricultural
& maritime information) for each province down to sub-district/village
level.
3. Output:
·
Front-end
BMKG website at provincial level with following specifications:
o
Home
pages (through CMS)
o
Provincial
news (through CMS)
o
Weather
Information (specific Province & cities/district) (through CMS &
webservices)
o
Maritime Weather(through CMS & webservices)
o
Climate Information (through CMS or webservices if any) until sub-district
(kecamatan)/village level (kelurahan/desa)
o
Specific
web-services to feed information board
·
Back-end
data Entry (specification is confidential)
·
Database
Structure (specification is confidential)
4. Qualifications:
·
Min. Bachelor Degree (Preferred in ICT/science), others are
welcome if have strong knowledge or experience below.
·
1-7 year(s) experienced in website & system development
·
Experienced with:
o classic
asp programming
o php or
python, html, javascript, xml
o CMS
(e.g. drupal, wordpress)
o MySQL/MariDb
Database
o Microsoft
Windows IIS
5. Base of Operations:
·
Jakarta, Indonesia
6. Reporting:
·
The Software Engineer will report to Climate
Information Services Advisor
7. Application Send:
· Interested applicants are invited to send their CV to APIK_Recruitment@dai.com. Please send applications no later than 12 May 2017. Applicants are instructed to write “Software Engineer – NAME”
as the Subject line of their email. We regret that we are unable to
acknowledge receipt of all applications and only shortlisted candidates
will be notified.
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