Group Head of Delivery at Equity Bank Kenya

Job Purpose:

• This is a leadership role for overseeing the delivery of projects and programs to ensure that they are delivered on time, within scope and budget.
• To ensure strategic alignment of the projects and programs with the Africa Resilience and recovery plan 
• Optimize project portfolios, balance capacity against demand, and connect plans and resources to project execution
• Reports to the Group Director, Enterprise Project Management Office.

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

Planning

• Develop Road Maps for Program including conducting analysis, developing the program and change management plans, and driving execution.
• Lead requirements management processes including requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and ongoing scope management.
• Be accountable for project planning, work breakdown structure (WBS) / Scheduling, financial management, and quality and performance management
• Identify key requirements for cross-functional teams and external vendors 
• Work closely with Business leaders and sponsors, cross-functional work groups.
• Work with Program Managers to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives.

Budget and Cost Utilization

• Monitor and evaluate Programs budget.
• Provide oversight of development and cost management for projects and programs.
• Be accountable for delivering against established business goals/ objective

Reporting & Tracking

• Guarantee adequate and constant communications management and reporting from Program Managers to all Stakeholders and Sponsors.

Implementation

• Ensure standardization of delivery.
• Guarantee development, production and delivery of executive presentations, program updates, and set and articulate goals and timelines to executive leadership.
• Evaluate and monitor implementation as per SDLC.
• Oversee multiple programs teams, ensuring program goals are reached
• Manage program and project teams for optimal return on investment, and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives

Communication

• Coordinate with other portfolio leaders and stakeholders to gather project status, performance and communicate policy where required.

Risk Management

• Collaborate Risk leadership, risk owners to identify, assess, and mitigate risks.
• Ensure Risk Register per Program is up to date. 
•  Analyze, evaluate, overcome portfolio risks, and produce program reports for managers and stakeholders.

Project Closure

• Review overall project governance and project closure
• Developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated successful mastery of major components of the Project Lifecycle Development in the context of major systems implementations.
• Ability to communicate strategic knowledge objectives to executive management
• Ability to explain technical complexities from data, dashboards, and present complex information to a variety of stakeholders including executives.
• Strong Leadership/Management skills
• Demonstrated mastery on project scheduling on MS Project or an equivalent project Management Tool like Smartsheet.
• Ability to organize and direct quality time-bound work efforts in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with financial services systems preferred.
• Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding client relationship management skills. 
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Must have experience managing large-scale projects and budgets exceeding $1M+
• Ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms.
• Comfortable working with executive management.
• Demonstrated ability to drive crucial conversations across stakeholders of varying seniority.
• Ability to manage multiple medium to complex business & projects
• 10+ years of professional experience
• 8+ years of professional project management experience on projects
• 5+ years of experience in running projects in an agile environment
• PMP certification preferred.
• Must demonstrate an understanding of financial services.
• Bachelor's Degree is required.