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Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects.
Description
M-Pesa Background:
M-Pesa, is a pioneer and global market leader product and team in mobile money. From starting in 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked can make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer over 40 million customers’ in 7 Markets financial services, enterprise, merchant and retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.
We have an exciting career opportunity for an Agile Programme Management Office (APMO) Manager in M-Pesa Africa within Mobile Payments Solutions Department.
Role Overview:
As part of the APMO team, the successful applicant will be jointly responsible for supporting a large 100+ portfolio of existing waterfall projects and a building portfolio of agile products, and to ensuring all governance standards are maintained across M-Pesa’s development & delivery programmes.
The APMO team provides support for the M-Pesa team in areas of governance including management of assurance, compliance, project planning and progress reporting, resources, budgets, meetings, communications, change management, risks and issues, documents, processes, and process improvements.
The organisation is embracing Agile and SAFe methodologies and processes. The APMO team members will act as change agents in building out the new capabilities.
The successful candidate will be capable of supporting the existing team and/or building the new SAFe Agile capabilities.
Detailed Role Description
To provide APMO support for all M-Pesa waterfall and agile teams. For waterfall teams, continue to maintain existing standards and further optimise governance. In both waterfall and agile teams actively support the rollout of process improvements.
For SAFe & Agile teams, design and roll out the new governance & standards, build out the APMO & Lean Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) and develop and roll out transformation plans.
Key Responsibilities
Provide APMO support to the M-Pesa organisation. A part of a team the areas of work include:
Qualifications
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your updated resume.
Deadline 4th November 2020
Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
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