Project Management Officer at La Fayette Microfinance Bank Limited

La Fayette Microfinance Bank Limited – As an international registered microfinance bank, La Fayette Microfinance Bank offers a complete range of financial services and means of payment for its customers, including savings accounts, current accounts and fixed deposit accounts.

Fully client oriented, La Fayette Microfinance Bank offers great flexibility, independence and financial security to help clients stay committed to their short and long term financial goals. Formally incorporated as La Fayette Microfinance Bank, the bank started full operation in February 2013 and has built a strong client base, serving clients from eight branch networks in Ibadan – Bodija, Challenge, Dugbe, Gbagi and Iwo road, Ogbomosho, Oyo and Saki towns, all strategically situated within close proximity to customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Project Management Officer

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Planned Start Date: 01/12/2022

Main Responsibilities
Project Management:

• Responsible for management and delivery of projects assigned to him/her in terms of scope, time and budget
• Support the portfolio management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments and budgets
• Lead efforts in developing work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
• Keeps track of all phases of the project lifecycle and monitors milestone completion Develop and maintain project documents, e.g. project brief, project initiation, project planning, change requests, etc
• Executing the defined project plan to ensure that the project team completes their assignments according to plan
• Planning for contingencies and report project baseline variances.
• Identify and anticipate risks and issues. Facilitate resolution, mitigation, and appropriate escalation
• Contribute to management of project risk and ensure that a risk register is in place before at all level before going live.
• Assess inter-project dependencies and gauge the financial impact and risk of the project
• Support in the definition of project quality standards and ensure these standards are adhered to during project execution and delivery
• Closing the project to formalize acceptance of the project result and release project resources
• Measure and report on value achieved and business benefits realized through projects
• Provide leadership and technical guidance to team members
• Provide performance feedback for project team members
• Organize regular meetings with Project Team to monitor and discuss project progress, as well as providing performance feedback for project team members.

Business Alignment:

• Ensure daily, weekly, monthly reports are updated on time and ensure that all reviewed policy and/or procedures is placed on the SharePoint.
• Established Minutes of all PPG steering meetings and archive them in an electronic file
• Report every year on the revision of all existing policy to ensure update being done every (year or 3 years) base on the Advans group requirement.
• Create or review report files as the need arises
• Coordinate with branches in policies that are outdated and inconsistent with the practices
• Submission of report to the compliance to ensure alignment of all policies to the regulatory requirements.

Profile
Person Specification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any relevant course of study from accredited University
• 1 – 3 years experience in IT & project management
• Demonstrable ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Reporting and briefing skills to senior business stakeholders
• Project management certification is an added advantage
• Use of MS Office is a must with excellent analytic and presentation skills.
• Builds and maintains partnerships, achieves projects results for impact, innovates and embraces change, thinks and acts strategically, works collaboratively with others, and excellent team manager.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.