Vacancies at Gulf African Bank

Job Purpose:

• The position holder will coordinate the implementation of all ICT projects in the Bank and ensure that projects are completed within scope, time and budget.
• The position holder will be responsible for setting project goals and coming up with plans to meet those goals
• The position holder will be responsible for implementing IT strategies that deliver projects on schedule and within budget

Key Responsibilities

• Organizing meetings to discuss project goals and progress
• Maintaining project timeframes, budgeting estimates and status reports
• Managing resources for projects, such as computer equipment and employees
• Day-to-day management of a portfolio of ICT projects in the Bank,
• Coordinating with Project Management Office to ensure ICT projects initiated by all divisions and captured in the bank’s annual plans, or ad-hoc projects. are completed on
• time, within budget, within scope and within quality specification to generate value for the Bank and customers
• Work closely with the Manager, Change Management & Projects to:
• Design methodology and procedures relating to project management
• Develop the templates necessary for monitoring project progress
• Prepare project definition and detailed plans for each project
• Define the responsibilities, work scope and target for each member of the project team for each project.
• Monitor and manage risks and opportunities
• Manage the resolution of issues relating to each project.
• Manage the scope of each project and control changes in the scope of a project
• Communicate with stakeholders; give updates to PMO on status of each ICT project from time to time.
• Manage the closure of each project.
• Ensure individual integrity and professionalism by adhering to legal requirements and ethical standards in order to protect the Bank and stakeholders.
• Tracking of all IT Projects
• Conducting risk assessments for projects
• Coordinating project team members and developing schedules and individual responsibilities
• Setting project goals and coming up with plans to meet those goals

Skills, Experience and Competencies

• Business graduate from an accredited university, Project Management qualifications mandatory.
• At least 5 years’ experience in banking, a good understanding of banking processes, services and products, with 3 years at Manager Level.
• Proficiency with various project managements tools
• Experience in managing projects, especially ICT related projects and coordinating a crossfunctional committees.
• Project management and leadership skills for managing projects and the teams involved with them
• Ability to prepare an effective work plan and organize his/her time in a manner that enables that plan to be implemented
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with team members and management and explain technical issues
• Excellent resource planning and task scheduling skills
• Ability to get on well with people and to influence through leadership skills
• Strong networking skills, both externally and within the Bank
• Good negotiations skills to negotiate with stakeholders
• Dynamic individual, who takes pride in his/her work, and has the ability the thrive in a
• competitive and dynamic environment (working effectively under pressure)
• Problem solving and analysis skills especially within a business context; good business sense is a key requirement
• Professionalism, i.e. ability to win the confidence of, and work effectively with clients and colleagues

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Job Purpose:

• The position holder will be responsible for reviewing, analyzing developing and supporting systems including encoding, testing, debugging and installing to support application systems., consult with the systems analyst & with users to identify current operating procedures and to clarify program objectives.
• The incumbent will also be responsible for writing proposals to describe custom configuration of applications and operating procedures in liaison with 3rd party application development consultants.

Key Responsibilities

• Meet and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish project scope, system goals, and requirements
• Develop process solutions and ensuring that all output from the users is consistent, accurate, timely and value-adding and constantly seek feedback from Business owners and key stakeholders as to relevance and value of process deliverables.
• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes through automating by developing relevant systems.
• Develop and implement maintenance procedures, monitor systems health, gather system statistics, and troubleshoot reported errors
• Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot core business applications, including application servers, endpoints, and databases
• Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications including operations, user guide, etc.
• Assist in the creation of the system design and functional specifications for all new development projects.
• Assist in managing an outsource relationship for 3rd party application development and programming consultants.
• Deliver assigned Projects and Business change requests within time and budget
• Ensure applications operation by training end user and providing support.
• Monitor the usefulness of the new systems and outputs on behalf of users.
• Ensure applications systems periodical processes (EOD, EOM & EOY) are executed promptly
• Ensure business continuity testing is performed regularly
• Provides assistance and advice to business users in the effective use of applications and information technology.
• Serve as key support person in business systems
• Identify and set out user needs for the computer-based systems.
• Monitor the usefulness of the new systems and outputs on behalf of users.

Skills, Experience and Competencies

• A 2nd Upper degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field.
• Minimum B+ in KCSE with strong scores in Mathematics, Quantitative techniques, and logical structures.
• Technical experience with systems programming, databases, Web development with preference to .Net environments.
• Strong project management skills with effective results focus within an information systems environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently and in a team environment, in a high pressure on-call environment with changing priorities
• Experience in: Multiple OS platforms with strong emphasis on Linux
• Analytical skills and Technical Implementation Skills.
• Demonstrable capacity to develop enterprise wise systems using established frameworks
• and architectures through projects executed
• Good communication and presentation skills