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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and implement comprehensive partnership strategies, identifying key growth areas, market trends, and potential high-value partners.
• Build and manage a diverse portfolio of strategic alliances, ensuring strong relationships with top-level Management Executives and key stakeholders.
• Lead the identification and pursuit of new strategic business opportunities, including potential acquisitions, market expansion, and securing large grants/contracts. 
• Lead negotiations and structure high-impact partnership agreements; working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure the interests of the Group are secured and compliance with relevant regulatory requirements is achieved.
• Regularly review financial reports, KPI dashboards, and other relevant data to track ROI and the overall health of the partnership ecosystem.
• Prepare brief updates or detailed presentations for EXCO &/or Board regarding progress toward revenue targets and strategic milestones on partnerships.
•  Build strong internal relationships across the business teams to gain support to deliver growth in products from partnership products. 
• Participate in industry networking events, luncheons, or conferences to maintain a strong presence and identify new market trends. 
• Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing business development and partnerships team, overseeing budgets and resource allocation.

MINIMUM POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The preferred candidate will meet the below minimum requirements:

• Holder of a Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution.
• Professional qualifications in Marketing or Financial/Investment analysis will be an added advantage.
• A Master's degree in Business Administration is an added advantage.
• Have at least 8 years relevant management experience, with specific experience in the following areas:
  • Commercialization of new ventures from pilot to scale
  • Minimum 8 years progressive business development management
  • Driving business growth through strategic partnerships
  • Deal structuring and negotiations
  • High level stakeholder management
  • Post-deal performance management and value benefit realization
  • People management & supervision

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
• Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional testcases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with GEA and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the SQA Framework.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
• Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
• Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes. 
• Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation review within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements. 
• Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division. 

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

 Academic & Professional

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study  RQ
• Professional Qualifications    ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ  (Certified Manager of Software Quality)     RQ
• Project Management    PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)     AA
• Master’s Degree    
• Business Administration or Project Management  AA

Experience

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type

• Software Quality Assurance 3 RQ
• IT Projects  3 ES 
• Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)  2  DE 
• Software Applications & Support  2 DE 
• Software Development 2 DE 

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Design, implement, and maintain data security controls such as data classification, labelling, encryption, and data loss prevention (DLP), across systems, applications, and cloud platforms.
• Develop and maintain data security policies, standards, procedures and Minimum-Security Configuration Baseline Standards in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and frameworks (e.g., Kenya Data Protection Act, ISO 27001, GDPR, and/or other relevant standards).
• Collaborate with the Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Operations Centre (CISOC) in the continuous monitoring and defense of the Bank’s infrastructure against cybersecurity threat.
• Support secure adoption of new technologies, applications, and platforms to ensure cybersecurity requirements are met before introduction to production environments.
• Lead the end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle for databases and datastores by executing assessments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, performing risk-based prioritization, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to remediate and continuously report on compliance.
• Support cybersecurity risk assessments and remediation by leveraging technical knowledge to remediate gaps identified by assurance teams such as Information Risk and Audit teams.
• Support internal and external audits related to data security and privacy.
• Continuous research and provide technical expertise across the different business and technical functions, conduct data security awareness and user training sessions across the group.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Academic & Professional

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree
• BSc. IT / Computer Science or related field RQ

Professional Qualifications

• Security certification such as 
• SC-401: Information Protection Administrator Associate CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor.
• CISM: Certified Information Security Manager 
• CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner. 
• CompTIA Security+
• ISO27001
• OSCP: Offensive Security Certified Professional. ETC
• At least one RQ
• Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)
• SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CyberOps Professional, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) AA
• Oracle Database certifications in either OCP/ Oracle Database Security
• Microsoft Database certifications such as MCDBA AA
• Master’s degree MBA / MSc AA

Experience

Detail Minimum No of Years Need Type

• Experience in Cyber Security 2 ES