Zimbabwe Job: Programme Manager in a Reputable Firm

Employment as a Programme Manager

Programme Manager – (Project Management / Operations / Strategy / Governance / Analysis) – Zimbabwe
 
A multinational bank with operations across Africa is currently seeking a Programme Manager to join their company. The key aspects of this role are:

1. Identifying, managing and/or coordinating a variety of projects across the bank with a focus on ensuring optimal integration and alignment
2. Identifying and resolving systemic and strategic risks, ensuring the bank is prepared for regulatory and other change.
3. Identifying and implementing opportunities for improvement and enhanced integration

 
Responsibilities:
 
Programme and/or Project Management of Articulated Issues, Risks and Opportunities:

• Provide leadership around project scoping, management and measurement to address these across the business
• In collaboration with senior management and relevant stakeholders, facilitate / oversee the facilitation of workshops / sessions to research, analyse and understand underlying project motivations and core assumptions and key players’ motivations, agendas, roles and mandates
• Oversee the development and implementation of a communication strategy that translates strategic project objectives into clear action plans
• Set up governance frameworks and structures, e.g. monthly Steercos and manage the communication of project expectations and progress to team members and business stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Define project success criteria and communicate these to relevant stakeholders throughout projects’ life cycles
• Ensure completion of legal documentation for all projects
• Where project control is in jeopardy, create contingency plans with appropriate input from key team members and implement a revised project schedule, scope and/or budget
• Work with PMO teams to ensure business stakeholder have an understanding of expectations, deliverable, dependencies, risks, issues and project progress

 
Financial Management:

• In consultation with relevant stakeholders, develop project budgets
• Monitor project expenses and take action to manage and mitigate variances, and Identify and implement cost efficiencies

 
Risk Management:

• Keep an accurate risk and issue tracking document with an associated mitigation plan
• Collaborate with Risk and Internal Audit to build and maintain a robust and integrated control environment
• Identify and mitigate risks to enable ROI, e.g. from an IT, regulatory and governance and/or tactical / strategic perspective

 
Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management:

• Display abilities to build relationships at all organisational levels, demonstrating sound abilities to listen, challenge, influence, present, guide and negotiate
• Play a strong stakeholder management and alignment role in holding and communicating the desired vision and strategy
• Ensure alignment to other strategic projects and initiatives
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
• Represent the function on relevant internal and external bodies as required

 
Team Leadership, Management and Mentoring:

• Facilitate strategy formulation with PMO teams and project sponsors, set the pace and tone for the function and ensure everyone is focused on the right priorities
• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports, focusing on all aspects of sound people management

 
Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Relevant Degree
• Project Management qualification essential (e.g. CAPM and other Project Administration Qualification)
• Post-Graduate Degree Advantageous
• 7-10+ years’ Senior Business Consulting experience combining stakeholder engagement at all levels, problem solving skills and exposure to relevant frameworks, processes and technology
• Project and programme management skills, e.g. Prince 2
• Programme Management experience across African Countries would be highly advantageous
• Process analysis and engineering skills
• Knowledge and understanding of banking
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Financial and operational risk management skills in a banking environment
• Knowledge of the full MS Office suite and MS Projects
• Fluency in English essential

 

 

Apply here: https://goo.gl/FLKZzS

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