QSSR-NCBA-AEPM-ASSISTANT ENTERPRISE PROJECTS MANAGER

Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
Company name: NCBA
Job Title: Assistant, Enterprise Projects Manager
Unit: Enterprise Projects
Reports to: Senior, Enterprise Projects Manager
Department: Operations and Technology


Job Purpose Statement
To provide both Project and Administrative support to the entire Enterprise Projects Management (EPM) unit, facilitating the seamless execution of bank’s projects and change requests. This includes assisting with planning, tracking progress, coordinating logistics, and maintaining clear communication throughout project lifecycles.

Key Accountabilities
Perspective% WeightingOutput
Monitoring and Reporting25 %
  • Production of dashboards and reports that provide an enterprise-wide view of project portfolio and resource utilization.
  • Manage a consistent process and framework for monitoring, controlling and reporting on project deliverables.
  • Ensuring that benefits realization reports are developed using existing standards ensure that envisioned benefits are clearly tabulated, measured and reported.
Governance20%
  • Ensure adherence to and application of established policies, processes, and tools to achieve optimal efficiency, compliance and cost containment. Monitoring compliance with Project management standards, policies and procedures to drive maturity in project management.
Finance15%
  • Ensuring that all Capex spend (Projects and Change Requests) is budgeted for and authorized accordingly. Ascertain that project payments are performed efficiently.
Internal Business process15%
  • Lead the testing and user acceptance process to ensure solutions are successfully implemented and meet client/business requirements.
  • Manage specific application quality assurance and help desk activities including the tracking of bug reports, change requests and ensuring their timely resolution.
Customer10%
  • Ensuring proper and prompt service delivery.
  • Maintaining effective communication with customers.
  • Demonstrating appropriate attitudes towards consumers.
Stakeholder Management10%
  • Build and maintain positive working relationships with all levels of staff.
  • Partner/Vendor
Learning and growth5%
  • Stay up to date with latest industrial standards and soft skills relevant to project management.

Job Dimensions
Reporting Relationships: jobs that report to this position directly and indirectly
Direct Reports: N/A
Indirect Reports: Portfolio Managers

Stakeholder Management: key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work with to be successful in this role.
Internal
Finance
 Procurement
Information Technology (IT)
Information Security (Infosec)
External
Vendors
Partners

Decision Making Authority /Mandates/Constraints: N/A

Work cycle and impact:
Annual CAPEX Planning – 1 Year
Benefits Tracking – 3 Months
Project and Change Planning – 3 Months
Task Planning – 2 weeks to 1 month
Activity Planning - Less than 1 week

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:
  • Degree holder from a recognized University (min – 2nd class upper or equivalent) with professional qualification in Project Management.
  • Must have knowledge of PMBOK or Prince 2.
  • At least 4 years’ experience in Project Management within the Banking or financial services sector.
  • Professional qualification in Project Management e.g. Prince II, PMP is a must
  • Experience with automated Project management tools (e.g. Microsoft projects, etc.)

Ideal Job competencies
Technical Competencies
  • Strong Planning and organizing skills to effectively organize and schedules events and activities and resources. Sets up and monitors timescales and plans
  • Basic project management skills
  • Advanced analytical skills
  • Broad knowledge of banking operations Ability to segment the target market, gather market intelligence and identify opportunities
  • Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes, procedures and guidelines to achieve required compliance standards or benchmarks.
  • Strong commercial awareness. Understands and applies commercial and financial principles. Views issues in terms of costs, profits, risks, markets and added value.
  • Experienced in the identification, assessment and management of project risks – able to manage the risk not just the list

Behavioral Competencies
Personal Attributes
  • Persuasion skills to influence convince or impress others in a way that results in acceptance, agreement or behavior change.
  • Quality Orientation to effectively perform assigned activities/tasks in a manner that consistently achieves high quality standards or benchmarks.
  • Interpersonal skills to create and maintain relevant business networks; and to effectively communicate with and manage stakeholders who impact performance.
  • Strong teamwork and personal leadership skills
  • Ability to plan and organize self and work in order to achieve objectives and targets and is determined to and accountable for deliver outcomes and is able to overcome obstacles in order to move forward.
  • Speaks clearly, fluently and in a compelling manner to both individuals and groups.
  • Self-empowerment to enable development of open communication, teamwork and trust that are needed to support performance and customer-service oriented culture.
  • Leadership skills to effectively manage/lead a team and deputize for the team leader.


Note: The deadline for the application is no later than Friday, April 26th 2024. 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted



 
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