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Projects Manager Career Placement – Opportunity Bank
Job Title: Projects Manager
Organisation: Opportunity Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Executive Director
About US:
Opportunity
Bank Uganda Ltd (OBUL) is a member of Opportunity International, a global
microfinance institution that provides access to financial services in 27
Countries globally serving over 2 Million customers with Savings, Credit and
other transformational services aimed at transforming the lives of low income
earners.
Bank Uganda Ltd (OBUL) is a member of Opportunity International, a global
microfinance institution that provides access to financial services in 27
Countries globally serving over 2 Million customers with Savings, Credit and
other transformational services aimed at transforming the lives of low income
earners.
Job Summary: The Projects Manager will be in charge of managing
and delivering on all the Bank’s major projects including multi donor funded
projects within Opportunity Bank Uganda Ltd (OBUL). The incumbent will be
responsible for planning, directing and coordination of activities of
designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of project are
accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters by performing
the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors. The
incumbent will also coordinate internal and external change within the
organization to ensure optimal efficiency and effectiveness is achieved.
and delivering on all the Bank’s major projects including multi donor funded
projects within Opportunity Bank Uganda Ltd (OBUL). The incumbent will be
responsible for planning, directing and coordination of activities of
designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of project are
accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters by performing
the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors. The
incumbent will also coordinate internal and external change within the
organization to ensure optimal efficiency and effectiveness is achieved.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Project Management:
- Provide leadership for projects governance in
the Bank by ensuring establishment and enforcement of a standardised
projects Management guideline along best practice frame works that will be
followed for all bank projects - Regularly monitor implementation of project
activities and budgets to assure accountability as per the approved Work
Plan; Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy - Actively facilitate and coordinate all Bank
projects to ensure adherence to timeline, execution within budget, satisfy
the set objectives and effective risk management. - Keenly reviews project proposals or plans to
determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing
project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to
various phases of project. - Ensure efficient business processes in terms
of efficient and effective internal controls – Review operating manuals to
ensure customer friendly processes and through consultation with relevant
stakeholders initiate process reengineering. - Coordinate internal and external change
within the organization to ensure optimal efficiency and effectiveness is
achieved. - Advise management on human and physical
resource optimization – Based on through put in the respective department
identifying idle capacity that can productively be used elsewhere.
Identify potential areas of process automation that can eliminate waste of
resources which will contribute to overall profitability. - Keenly review and ensure that there exists
Internal and external Service level agreements. Internal service level
agreements between different departments to clearly identify the
turnaround time for feedback and problem resolution. - Donor agency project coordination –
centralize all donor projects under this office and responsible for the generation
of progress reports. - Prepare and submit Executive Management
reports (and donor reports where required) in line with project objectives
log frame and indicators. - Ability to draw and follow up on numerous
partner work plans - Manage the development of resources and
materials for tracking and achieving overall project success - Ensure that projects stay on schedule and any
issues are resolved - Timely reports and implementation (adherence
to work plans) - Efficient budget utilization (On-time,
on-budget delivery of activities) - Works closely with relevant Heads of
Department to ensure the project team members are equipped and trained to
perform their jobs.
2. Donor Management:
- Proactively work to maintain dialogue with
donors, keeping abreast of changing priorities. - Ensure compliance with donor requirements
3. External Partnerships:
- Responsible for managing and maintaining all
directly related external partnerships to ensure meeting project
objectives - Regular meetings to update on project
progress and performance. Liaison between external partners and OBUL - Continuously analyze partner needs, develop
action plans, track milestones and decision points and measure success. - Work closely with the different partners to
develop, recommend and instill key performance metrics for efficient and
relevant project tracking (milestones/deadlines/cost savings) - Provide thought leadership to the different
partners and act as point of contact.
4. Finance and Budgeting:
- Track monthly expenditure and ensure it is in
line with project work plans and budget requirements. Modify any changes
to reflect on the ground expenditure. - Work closely with Finance Director at OBUL to
maintain accurate financial records and accountability
5. Monitoring
&Evaluation (M&E):
&Evaluation (M&E):
- Responsible for all aspects of project
evaluation; includes gathering information in line with project objective
and indicators; - Gather primary and secondary data-
responsible for data management and analysis - Ensure all activities are in line with the
project log frames - Support annual Evaluation and analysis of
data for baseline, midterm and exit surveys. - Sharing best practices regionally
- Perform any other activities that may arise
and would assist in moving forward the Agriculture finance program.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should at least hold a Degree
level qualification - The ideal candidate should have seven years’ experience
in project management - The applicant should have relevant experience
in the financial services sector, technology and agriculture value chains.
- Significant exposure and experience in
financial service delivery, technology and agriculture value chains - Previous exposure and experience in report
and grant request writing - Clearly demonstrated ability to design,
implement, and evaluate large scale, donor funded projects - Prior exposure and experience in dealing with
consortium relationships - Strong background in M&E functions
- Experience in maintaining and cultivating
donor and partner relationships. - Proven ability to also work as a part of a
team and supervise others. - Computer literacy i.e. Competence in the use
of Microsoft Office. - Excellent oral and written English
- Previous experience in managing budgets
- Good project proposal writing and
presentation skills - Ability to think out of the box; be proactive
- Strategic Thinking-ability to set goals, plan
and prioritize - Background in microfinance preferred
- Previous exposure and experience in
agriculture finance and agriculture value chains preferred - Self starter- ability to work without
supervision, take initiative and make decisions on the spot - Good administration and organizational skills
- Working knowledge of specialist projects
management tools and techniques - The post holder should have the willingness to
work in Uganda
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their application letters
together with their curriculum vitae to:
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their application letters
together with their curriculum vitae to:
Human
Resources Officer
Resources Officer
Opportunity
Bank Uganda Limited
Bank Uganda Limited
Plot
7a, John Babiiha Avenue
7a, John Babiiha Avenue
P.O.
Box 33513 Kampala. Uganda
Box 33513 Kampala. Uganda
Email to: tajiku@opportunitybank.co.ug
Deadline: 13th May, 2016
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