Manager Projects at I&M Bank

MANAGER PROJECTS

The successful candidate will manage and facilitate the acquisition and development of effective solutions and applications that meet I&M Group requirements. This is through identifying, planning, and coordinating project, systems and technical requirements and variables. Providing direction in resolving technical/operational problems and ensuring project objectives are linked to the bank’s strategy.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The job holder will report to General Manager -Projects and will be responsible for:

• Coordinating between project stake holders to ensure that the project is delivered successfully in time
• Gathering business, technical and information security requirements for new projects and preparing Requests for Proposal (RFP)
• Coordinating vendor evaluation and selection processes and assisting the steering committee in negotiations with the Vendors
• Defining and documenting project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Effectively setting, communicating and managing project expectations with project team members and stakeholders
• Estimating and managing resources needed to achieve project goals
• Ensuring that the scope of work, SLA and legal requirements are taken into account in the contract with the Vendor.
• Planning and managing hardware, software, and integration requirements in coordination with the Vendor & ICT
• Developing project communications protocol
• Developing full-scale project plans and associated project documents
• Identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path
• Developing project work plans and scheduling project activities and milestones in coordination with the Vendor and other project stakeholders
• Ensuring that the vendor employees are on boarded and provided with secure connections to the desired systems
• Ensuring installation of the required operating system, database and application software
• Responsible for developing the quality management process and for ensuring that all the deliverables as in line with the scope
• Guiding the development of test cases for user acceptance testing (UAT) and monitoring the UAT process
• Coordinating with ICT and getting the production system ready for go-live
• Arranging trainings for the business and technical users as per the approved training plan
• Coordinating mock runs, document findings and resolving issues in coordination with users and vendor
• Planning and monitoring the go-live preparations including migration of data, user access and hand-holding support by the vendor
• Monitoring project work plans and milestones to ensure they are on schedule and are revised, where necessary, to meet the changed needs
• Developing and maintaining project documents and ensuring that they are complete, current, and properly stored
• Planning and monitoring the go-live preparations including migration of data, user access and hand-holding support by the vendor
• Preparing project status reports and escalating issues requiring intervention of project stakeholders
• Maintaining the project RAID log on an ongoing basis, and implementing risk mitigation plans as approved by Steering Committee
• Ensuring payment of the project costs as per agreed payment terms, monitoring project expenditure and advising the stakeholders
• projects risk assessment on an ongoing basis, and implementation risk mitigation plans
• Ensuring that security controls recommended by the ISOs are implemented before handing over the systems to ICT
• Developing and delivering progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
•  Implementing hybrid project management methodologies
• Supporting business owners to ensure benefits realization

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/ Computer Science/ Information Technology from a recognized institution
• Master’s in project management will be an added advantage
• 5+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution
• Strong familiarity with project management software
• Have qualifications in Project management PMP, PRINCE 2 or training in Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban)

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong planning and organization skills
• Ability to write complex reports
• Good understanding of banking processes

Closing Date : 30th March 2022.