Project and Partnership Officer at La Fayette Microfinance Bank Limited, Advans Nigeria

Main Responsibilities
Project Management:

• 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
• Executing the defined project plan to ensure that the project team completes their assignments according to plan
• Monitoring and controlling the work to ensure that the project remains on track and in control
• 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
• 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.

Partner Development:

• Develops and implements a Partnership Strategy that supports the bank’s Strategy, ensures the very best of relationships with partners, clients and stakeholders.
• Ensures that all team members understand the importance of the Partnership Strategy and how it relates to them and that they are fully involved in its implementation.
• Ensures excellent relations with key partners, and put in place systems that maintain them.
• Ensures effective engagement of strategic partners.
• Maintains a database of information relating to Partners such other details as are relevant to the development and maintenance of those partnerships.
• Develops and manages Memorandum of Understandings as may arise from partnerships
• Perform detailed desk research on potential partners.
• Creating the proposals and presentations to enable partnership opportunities.
• Following-up on conversations and processes.
• Identifying best practices and incorporating new ideas for partnership building

Business Alignment:

• Conduct feasibility studies and confirm results with business units to facilitate decision making
• Engaging with the business to understand needs and gather requirements
• Change Control
• Managing expectations
• Communicating with management and stakeholders to enable successful and timely project completion.

Product Development:

• Support the development of new products/services or changes/improvements of existing products to better meet client’s needs
• Support the whole process of development of new products / services (from conception to sales) with concerned department (MCU, OPE, LOG, IT….)

Generic Activities:

• Perform other duties and tasks requested by immediate supervisor in accordance with bank’s regulations and policies.

Profile
Person Specification:

• First Degree (B.Sc / HND) in any discipline
• 3-5 years work experience as a project manager
• Project Management certification will be 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.