Project title: DYNASLOPE
Project description:
The PHIVOLCS-funded project Development of Early Warning Systems for Landslides, also known as the DYNASLOPE Project, is a multidisciplinary endeavor addressing the problem of landslide risk. The project is composed of instrumentation engineers, software engineers, civil engineers, geologists, social scientists, and community developers working together towards the development of a community-based early warning system for landslides.
Employment status:
Contract of Services under PHIVOLCS locally-funded project
Contract Duration:
March to June 2026 (may be renewed if performance is satisfactory)
Monthly Salary:
PhP 81,796.00 + premium
Position Title and Job Description:
One (1) Project Senior Technical Specialist Tech Group
Job description
● Leadership and Management
○ Supervise the Hardware Infra-Sensor Dev’t, Software Infra, Deployment and Maintenance, and Threshold and Operations teams;
○ Ensures that group activities and outputs are aligned with project goal and objectives.
○ Facilitate planning, assessment, and reporting of group objectives, work progress, staff management, and pertinent concerns to the Project Leader and PHIVOLCS.
○ Project Performance and Compliance: Ensure all project performance planning and commitment documents (e.g., IPP, IPR, quarterly progress reports, catch-up plans) are accomplished and submitted to PHIVOLCS. Guide staff in fair performance evaluations. Monitor and meet PMES deadlines for quarterly progress reports. Participate and present project accomplishments in midyear and yearend performance assessments.
○ Representation and Collaboration: Represent the project in external meetings and manage partnerships with academe, institutions, NGAs, and private sectors.
● Core tasks
○ Facilitate software development tasks;
○ 24/7 technical support to provide continuous assistance and resolution for urgent bugs and script issues that may occur in our software or application;
○ Conduct trainings for the usage and web presentation tools;
○ Lead and conduct local and web server database management;
○ Lead daily monitoring of monitoring and information application (MIA) backend scripts;
○ Maintenance of analysis and alert generation scripts;
○ Facilitate developments of hardware systems;
○ Facilitates documentation of validation procedures;
○ Conduct maintenance and deployment fieldwork in project sites;
○ Conduct early warning system implementation tasks, including monitoring, fieldwork, and related administrative duties.
● Monitoring
○ Progress Tracking: Submit required reports (quarterly, midyear/yearend assessments) and delegate/facilitate project-wide meetings.
○ Knowledge Management: Manage the project’s knowledge base, fostering learning and accessible storage of organizational outputs.
○ Quality Assurance: Review and approve project documents before release, ensuring compliance with PHIVOLCS policies and relevant laws.
Educational background
● BS Electronics and Communications Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering, BS Computer Engineering, BS Applied Physics , BS Information Technology
Required skills and qualities
● Preferably, licensed professional;
● At least four (4) years experience in relevant field, preferably in instrumentation, electronics and data science;
● At least two (2) years work experience as team leader;
● Microcontroller firmware development;
● Various programming languages (C, C++, Python, etc);
● Knowledge in MySql
Requirements:
a. Application letter addressed to:
Dr. Teresito C. Bacolcol
Director, PHIVOLCS
PHIVOLCS Bldg., C.P. Garcia Ave., U.P. Campus, Diliman, Quezon City
b. Fully accomplished Personal Data Sheet (PDS) with recent passport-size picture (CS Form No. 212, Revised 2017), which can be downloaded at csc.gov.ph;
c. Curriculum Vitae
d. Transcript of Records
APPLICATIONS WITH INCOMPLETE DOCUMENTS SHALL NOT BE ENTERTAINED. Limit file size to less than 10MB. Only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Submit on or before 5:00 PM, February 20, 2026
Send to hrmds@phivolcs.dost.gov.ph, cc: dynaslopephivolcs22@gmail.com, roy.alkai@gmail.com
(NOTE: Please indicate the complete position title, section and division in your application letter)
