kendo-ui - Kendo MVVM Value Binding not displaying value

Question

I have the following partial view:

<div id="config">
    Call:<input data-bind="value: systemCall" /> 
</div>

and the following view model:

(function () {

  SC.ViewModels.SystemConfig = new function () {

    // self reference
    var self = this;

    self.ViewModel = kendo.observable({
        systemCall: "System Call",

    });

    kendo.bind($("#config"), self.ViewModel);
  };


})();

I want to verify that this is set up correctly, so if I give systemCall a value of "SystemCall", shouldn't I be able to see this when I load the page? At present, I see nothing in the text box.