Project Management Officer at La Fayette Microfinance Bank Limited, Advans Nigeria

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• Coordinate with branches in policies that are outdated and inconsistent with the practices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.