Project Manager

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Project Planning and Initiation: Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing regular updates and managing expectations.
• Resource Allocation and Management: In collaboration with the line managers, identify, allocate, and manage resources (team members, budget, tools) to ensure the project’s successful delivery. These resources will form a cross-functional team to ensure project delivery.
• Risk and Issue Management: In collaboration with the Bank’s control functions, proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to project progress.
• Budget and Cost Management: In collaboration with the Bank’s Finance team, monitor project expenses and ensure delivery within the approved budget, while regularly reporting on financial performance.
• Waterfall Project Execution: Create and manage detailed project plans, outlining each phase from requirements gathering to deployment, and monitor progress against timelines and milestones.
• Agile Project Facilitation: Facilitate agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, ensuring active participation and continuous improvement.
• Change Management: Manage scope changes effectively by evaluating impacts on timelines, costs, and resources, and seek necessary approvals for adjustments.
• Performance Tracking and Reporting: Track project performance through key metrics, reporting on progress, variances, and project health to stakeholders.
• Compliance and Regulatory Adherence: Ensure all project activities adhere to internal policies, industry regulations, and compliance requirements, particularly in banking environments.
• Team Leadership and Motivation: Lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.
• Vendor and Third-Party Management: Manage relationships and contracts with external vendors and service providers, ensuring timely and quality delivery of services or products.
• Post-Implementation Review: Conduct project reviews and retrospectives to capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for future improvement

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Economics, International Business, Project Management, Commerce, Business Administration, Business Statistics or another related field.
• Professional Certifications in PRINCE2, PMP, Safe Agilist, and Certified Scrum Master are preferred.
• Proficient with Project Management software (JIRA, Trello, Miro, MS Project or other collaborative tools).
• At least three years experience as a Project Manager or Scrum Master in a Banking, Telecom, For intech environment
• Awareness of industry regulations especially in Banking (e.g. AML, KYC)
• Skilled in negotiating resources, and deadlines, and resolving conflicts between teams or stakeholders.
• Hands-on expertise in both waterfall and agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience managing budgets, resources, and timelines effectively across multiple projects
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication to convey project status, issues, and outcomes to stakeholders at all levels i.e. C-suite and middle Management.
• Adept at Financial Technology.
• Must exhibit enthusiasm and the ability to influence stakeholders.

INVITATION

If you believe you meet the requirements as noted above, please forward your application with a detailed CV including your present position and copies of relevant professional/academic certificates, to the email address indicated below:

Vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com

Deadline: Tuesday 4^th March 2025. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Please note that all recruitment terms and conditions as stated in the HR Policies and Procedures Manual shall apply.