CKAN Repository Officer/Programmer at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Ref.: IITA-HR-NRS2016-018

Responsibilities
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Plan, develop and conduct implementation of CKAN that fits into the IITA data infrastructure and information landscape;
• Develop draft of workflows for upload, download, harvesting data and connection with databases/platforms, especially SharePoint;
• Server administration and repair;
• Serve as collection point of all IITA research output data/metadata;
• Cataloguing and check of metadata;
• Check uniqueness of dataset;
• Assessing need and conducting of a file conversion
• Filling of missing metadata;
• Assessing need/usefulness/ability to present the data in a “eye catching” format (map, chart, diagram etc.);
• Implement customization
• Programming links to other repositories, especially the python based GeoNode;
• Give persistent identifier;
• Inform interested data users;
• Managing content of legacy data;
• Perform any other related duties as may be assigned.

Qualification and Competencies

• B.Sc/HND in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics and any other related field with minimum of 2-3 years of experience performing similar role in a structured organization.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must have:

• Proven experience in setting up a corporate CKAN platform.
• Experience working with CKAN.
• Very strong programming skills in Python (or PHP).
• Good programming skills in html, CSS, JavaScript, web frameworks and general open source usage.