• Application Deadline:
• Position: Project and Partnership Officer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 - 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Media / Advertising / Branding  , Project Management 
  

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.