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Talentstone Finance - Our client is a financial sector non-governmental
body. It seeks to support increased access to financial services by
making the market for financial services work better for the poor, and
by improving regulation in Nigeria.
Background
Seven out of ten Nigerian adults are unbanked, and nearly half of the
adult population is considered financially excluded. Some banking
clients have to travel long distances to reach a branch, resulting in
the travel cost sometimes being higher than the amount the client wanted
to deposit on that day.
Digital Financial Services (DFS) has the potential to expand the
delivery of basic financial services to the poor or underbanked through
new technologies like mobile phones, computers, electronic money and
new channels such as retail agents.
To further achieve the aforementioned objective, our client has
identified the urgent need to recruit competent and suitably qualified
individuals to fill the specified position below:
Job Title: PMU Technical Advisor
Ref: PMU-16-02
Location: Abuja (Candidates must be willing to relocate. Relocation will be covered by the client)
Role Summary
- The PMU Technical Advisor, reporting to the DES Platform Program
Manager will serve as the technical expert on national scale Digital
Financial Services (DES) platform solution design principles.
- This will include payment system and mobile money technology, in
order to shape and influence national projects, activities and
deliverables.
- Identify and develop local technology collaboration and
partnerships that will be critical in informing team’s understanding of
technology landscape and for creating successful initiatives for
financial inclusion.
- This will include support for the innovators’ community
Competencies & Skills Requirements:
- Experience in developing payment system architectures
- Technical understanding (deep understanding in as many areas as
possible) among market solutions for mobile, data integration, payment
services, fraud and security, user identity and accounts
- Experience managing complex technology projects and teams for on-time and on-budget delivery
- Excellent understanding of open source development and developer
community, and be actively engaged with technology innovators in
Nigeria
Qualification and Experience
- Minimum of a First Degree and/or professional certifications in
relevant technical fields or other social science disciplines from a
reputable institution
- Minimum of Ten (10) years’ cognate work experience within the
financial or technology sector, seven (7) of which should be in a
similar function at senior management level
Compensation
- This position attracts a competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- The position is for a 2-year initial contract period, renewable
subject to the project’s life cycle and per candidates’ performances.
Job Title: PMU Project Manager
Ref: PMU-16-03
Location: Abuja (Candidates must be willing to relocate. Relocation will be covered by the client)
Role Summary
- The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the
planning and execution of projects and activities supporting the
deployment of Digital Financial Services (DFS) platform initiative.
- This will include the successful digitization of multiple
priority payment streams with accompanying payment system changes,
critical to driving overall financial inclusion in Nigeria.
- The Project Manager must coordinate contributions from many
participants to ensure projects deliver the expected scope and business
value, are completed on budget and on schedule and are delivered with
quality.
- Because not all of the key deliverables will be created under
the direct supervision of the PM, it will be important that the PM is
able to build strong, mutually respectful partnerships with
stakeholders, manage expectations, and ensure the appropriate level of
communication for multiple audiences.
- The PM understands the initiative environment and shares stakeholder perspectives with the project team.
Responsibilities
- Develop and coordinate project tasks, manage timelines, maintain
project plans to meet implementation goals and communicate status of
project work streams;
- Work closely with program managers and project teams within
relevant public and private sector institutions, reviewing key
deliverables in line with approved project plans;
- Coordinate with people managers, partners, vendors and project
sponsorship to ensure projects are appropriately resourced and/or tools
are effectively managed to achieve project objectives;
- Champion the need for and share best practices for change and
change management approach, including identification of
interdependencies and impact;
- Facilitate meetings and communications throughout the project
lifecycle to build project momentum and ensure transparency of relevant
project information to appropriate audiences. Establish and nurture
relationships with project stakeholders and sponsors;
- Responsible for detecting potential issues, escalating and
implementing solutions at the project level when there are issues that
may delay the timeline, impact budget or outcomes;
- Provide support to DFS platform team effort to extract learnings and deliverables for use by broader audience;
- Liaise with Project sponsors and Project Secretariat to
facilitate development of grants and contracts needed to drive projects.
Competencies & Skills Requirements
Core Knowledge and Skills:
- Understands the business benefits of the project and the linkage
between the project/program goals and organizational strategy and
drivers;
- Experience working in developing economies and managing complex technical projects essential;
- Understanding of mobile payment solutions, especially in
developing markets, and payment system actors, infrastructure, and
regulations;
- Solid knowledge and expertise utilizing project management and
change management frameworks for successful project delivery across the
project lifecycle;
Communication skills:
- Effective as a collaborator in complex internal and external
organizations. Strong at synthesizing and presenting complex information
for a variety of stakeholders;
Internal & External Contacts:
- Manage day to day relationship with internal and external
colleagues, grantees, and close partners. Identify and develop
relationships in support of program work;
Problem Solving:
- Problems are often complex and require research and careful review of options and communication.
Qualification and Experience
- Minimum of a First Degree and/or professional certifications in
relevant technical fields or other social science disciplines from a
reputable institution;
- Minimum of Ten (10) years' cognate work experience within the
financial or technology sector, seven (7) of which should be in a
similar function at senior management level;
- Demonstrated proficiency managing analytically rigorous initiatives;
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
Compensation
- This position attracts a competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- The position is for a 2-year initial contract period, renewable
subject to the project’s life cycle and per candidates’ performances.
Job Title: Digital Financial Services (DFS) Platform Program Manager
Ref: PMU-16-01
Location: Abuja (Candidates must be willing to relocate. Relocation will be covered by the client)
Role Summary
- Reports to - Head of Project Management Secretariat
- This position will be responsible for leading a diverse set of
projects and stakeholders from initiation through closure to achieve the
DFS Platform Initiative’s strategic objectives and benefits. These
include the successful digitization of a core set of priority payment
streams, with accompanying payment system changes, critical to driving
overall financial inclusion in Nigeria.
- The DFS Platform Program Manager (PM) is expected to align and
shape organizational and strategic decisions at the senior management
level that affect initiative goals, including senior leaders and
executives within government, commercial parties, and large non-profit
organizations that assist the poor with the overall objective of
financial inclusion. This position will manage resources, budget and key
relationships and partners needed for success.
- This role manages people and is responsible for supervising the
Program Management Unit within the Project Secretariat, managing
employee engagement, communicating performance expectations, creating
goal alignment, integrating project and change management, measuring
progress and holding team accountable.
Responsibilities
- Work with national stakeholders to create and implement an
implementation roadmap to strengthen existing platform or deploy a newly
designed platform or components that enable digital financial services
that work for poor people and are secure, robust and effective;
- Manage initiative related work in line with project budget,
available resources, and contracts. Lead future efforts to refine and
update country roadmap;
- Identify and mobilize national stakeholders who may be of
strategic or tactical importance to the success of the initiative.
Represent the importance of the initiative and related work efforts to
the overall financial inclusion objectives. This role is responsible for
high quality interactions and clear and consistent communications with
grantees and partners;
- Create and leverage strong relationships and networks both
in-country and regionally. Manage country efforts with cultural acuity;
- Orchestrate Initiatives execution that includes multiple strategic project teams;
- Responsible for initiative team management; identifying and
on-boarding staff, assessing staff capacity and capability needed to
support strategic priorities, monitor staff deployment and workload
across the country initiative team.
- Provide integrated view of all initiatives.
- Oversee team budget, including forecasting and reporting activities;
- Serve as thought partner to national stakeholders and global
sponsors of the DFS initiative. Stay abreast of and share developments
in country that may impact initiative activities or outcomes;
- Identify and resolve major deployment issues, represent these
issues and recommended solutions to the Head of the Project Secretariat;
- Builds a peer support and strong internal-company relationships with other key management personnel;
Competencies & Skills Requirements
Core Knowledge and Skills:
- Demonstrated record of success managing team with diverse skills
on highly complex and risky, business critical problems in developing
economies;
- Excellent analytical, writing and verbal skills for communicating and influencing a broad and diverse audience;
- Strong understanding of mobile payment solutions, especially in developing markets;
Communication and Collaboration Skills:
- Effective as an executive facilitator in complex internal and
external organizations. Proficient at capturing and understanding
stakeholder needs and expectations, analyzing the impact of the program
on stakeholders, gaining and maintaining stakeholder support, managing
stakeholder communications, and mitigating / channelling stakeholder
resistance;
Decision-Making:
- Individual will be required to prioritize the critical and
complex issues, work and activities that the Program Management Unit
team needs to focus on.
- Navigate a variety of work environments, cultures and challenges that arise in working across key stakeholders.
- Build trust of stakeholders, grantees and partners to ensure alignment;
Internal & External Contacts:
- Manage day to day relationship with internal and external
stakeholders, grantees, and close partners. Identify and develop
internal relationships in support of program work;
Problem Solving:
- Problems are highly complex and require research and careful review of options.
Qualification and Experience
- Minimum of a First Degree and/or professional certifications in
relevant technical fields or other social science disciplines from a
reputable institution;
- Minimum of fifteen (15) years' cognate work experience within
the financial or technology sector, ten (10) of which should be in a
similar function at senior management level;
- Demonstrated proficiency managing analytically rigorous initiatives;
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
Compensation
- This position attracts a competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- The position is for a 2-year initial contract period, renewable
subject to the project’s life cycle and per candidates’ performances.
Job Title: Communications & Reporting Manager
Ref: PMU-16-04
Location: Abuja (Candidates must be willing to relocate. Relocation will be covered by the client)
Reports to: Head of Strategy Co-ordination Office
Role Summary
- The position holder will support the Secretariat in developing and managing the communications strategy for the Project.
- This includes engagement with relevant internal and external
stakeholders to develop and execute appropriate flow of information on
financial inclusion and progress towards project goals and targets.
- The Communications & Reporting Manager will deploy different
channels including creating viable social media presence and leverage
print and electronic media to promote the project among diverse
audience.
- The position holder will also anchor the publication of
stakeholder implementation initiatives as well as bi-annual and other
periodic reports on the project.
Responsibilities
- Design and manage appropriate communications strategy for the
Project Secretariat to support implementation and sustain the engagement
of internal and external stakeholders to the performance of their roles
and responsibilities;
- Perform the communications function for the Project Secretariat
including strategy status updates, press releases, and meeting outcomes;
- Facilitate the organization of stakeholder engagement events,
leveraging appropriate tools to create required publicity on project
initiatives;
- Establish and maintain close working relationships with the
communication arms of stakeholder institutions, influencing the delivery
and adoption of financial services among various segments of the
population, in support of project objectives;
- Coordinate closely with the Program Management Unit to extract
key learnings and project milestones for dissemination to broader
audience;
- Coordinate closely with the Data Management Office to develop
relevant publication of bi-annual data and other periodic reports on
project implementation
Competencies & Skills Requirements
Core Knowledge and Skills:
- Understands the strategic benefits of the project and the
linkage between the various stakeholders, their goals, organizational
strategy and drivers;
- Strong knowledge and proven track record in the financial
services sectors such as Microfinance, SME Financing, Retail Banking and
Mobile payment solutions, especially in developing markets;
- Hands-on experience in developing and launching communications
campaigns using multiple channels including social, print and other
electronic media;
Communication skills:
- Must be able to communicate large and complex ideas and
recommendations to a diverse set of stakeholders including highly
technical and non-technical issues on the project.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to mine data insights from multiple sources (local and international) is essential;
Internal & External Contacts:
- Manage day to day relationship with internal and external colleagues, grantees, and close partners.
- Identify and develop relationships in support of overall project implementation;
Problem Solving:
- Problems are often complex and require research and careful review of options and communication.
Qualification and Experience
- Minimum of a first degree in Mass Communication, Public
Relations, Social Sciences or other relevant field, from a reputable
institution;
- Minimum of Ten (10) years' cognate work experience within the
financial or technology sector, Seven (7) of which should be in a
similar function at senior management level;
- Demonstrated proficiency managing analytically rigorous initiatives;
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
Compensation
- This position attracts a competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- The position is for a 2-year initial contract period, renewable
subject to the project’s life cycle and per candidates’ performances.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should download a pre-interview
questionnaire and send the completed questionnaire with a copy of their
updated resume in Microsoft Word format to:
[email protected] cc:
[email protected] quoting the Job Title and Reference Code for the position in the subject.
Click Here to Download Pre-interview Questionnaire
Note: Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Application Deadline 9th May, 2016.