KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Planning and designing the program, defining the program’s governance arrangements
- Facilitating resourcing to project teams in the program whilst ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the program’s individual projects
- Managing the program’s budget on behalf of the Program Executive, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the program progresses
- Managing third party contributions to the program
- Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
- Managing risks to the Program’s successful outcome
- Proactively monitoring program progress and impact, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action to facilitate program delivery within defined constraints
- Reporting program at regular intervals to the Program Executive
- Develop mechanisms for anticipating, responding to and activating change ensuring continued relevance and effectiveness for the business
- Develop and activate most viable change management strategies and frameworks for successful implementation of projects
- Work with various teams to develop and implement learning programs and frameworks for continuous adoption of changes, improvement and innovation
- Regularly conduct project health checks touching on among other things; strategy alignment, people, processes, and technologies and evaluating how well equipped they are in responding to emerging opportunities and threats
- Participate in establishing and cascading project best practices, templates, tools, processes
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelors (Business, Engineering or related)
- Project Management (PRINCE2, MSP, SCRUM)
- Business Analysis (CBAP, Six Sigma)
- Change Management (Change Management Practitioner, Change Management Foundation Certification, CMS, CCMF, CCMP)
- MBA or Equivalent (Added Advantage)
Experience
- 8 years in Project Delivery (Program & Project Management Skills including prioritization and ability to multi-task, resource management, cost management) of which 5 years should be in managing large scale projects.
- Relationship Management (Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Presentation and facilitation skills)
- Strong People management capability
- Demonstrated Critical thinking, Problem-Solving, Decision-Making skills
- Change Management Principles, Best Practices and achievements in large scale projects
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What We Do
KCB Group, is the largest financial services organization in East Africa in terms of asset size. The Group's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. In 2015, KCB Group opened a representative office in Ethiopia, expanding the growth of the organization. The Bank is over 124 years old having started in Mombasa in 1896. KCB Group has over 354 branches, 26,394 Agents/POS Merchants and 1,103 ATMs. The bank also offers Mobile Banking though the KCB App, Internet Banking and Diaspora Banking Services platform that can be accessed 24/7 basis. The Bank services over 26.8 million customers across the region. KCB Group is the largest financial services organization in East Africa, with an estimated asset base of approximately Ksh. 1.02 trillion as at the of end H1 2021.
