IT Program Governance/Reporting Lead at Equity Bank Kenya

Description

IT Program Governance/Reporting Lead will play a supporting function to the head of IT Strategy and Governance who is responsible for the full spectrum of managing the definition and maintenance of the standards specializing in project management and its processes as well overall program governance . Will strive to standardize execution of projects. Will act as the source of documentation, guidance and metrics on the practice and effective governance of project management and execution. Will assist the PMO Head to manage the successful delivery of projects undertaken by the IT through effective management, facilitation, tracking and reporting. Will ensure the PMO governance is adheres and participate in the management of key initiatives and projects supporting the company's objectives.

• Strategy & Planning
• Help in developing the existing PMO into a best practice PMO to support the delivery of transformation projects and IT projects of strategic importance
• Help ensure projects are delivered on-time, in-budget and within scope
• Assist to manage end-to-end software development lifecycle
• Help maintain a balance between developing standardized, best practice methods and responding flexibly through varied project delivery approaches.
• Implement of an overarching IT project management governance framework
• Provision of program management, change management and continuous improvement capability and expertise to support the high-quality delivery of its schedule of strategic project.
• Reporting to the executive on the monitoring of project performance, delivery, costs, risks, benefit realization.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.Help to establish project Acquisition & Deployment
• Help to design and deploy new portfolio project management tool. Operational Management
• Continuous monitoring of project performance
• Weekly reporting of project performance
• Quarterly reporting of benefits realized on completed projects
• Proactive monitoring and escalations of projects behind schedule
• Ensuring adequate reporting of project status by project managers
• Monthly publishing of project manager’s scorecard
• Weekly reporting on IT budget performance

Qualifications

• Minimum educational level – First degree in Computing Science, Engineering, Operational sciences or (any other discipline with strong Information Systems component and/or relevant IT Service Management certification).
• Post graduate qualification in Information Technology or related certifications Years Experience
• Minimum of 2 years project management Experience with a minimum of 1 year IT experience in a mature technology environment