Lead Programme Management

Job Description**:
JOB DETAILS**
BankservAfrica, being a payment clearing house and part of the National Payments System of South Africa, and being the trusted partner servicing the financial industry, including banking institutions, requires the exercise of unconditional honesty and transparency on the part of the employee in respect of his duties and obligations.

**Purpose**
Do you see a future that includes more? More exposure to innovative technologies, more personal growth, more experience? Look at the position we have available and see how, together we can shape your future, so that you can give more and include more.

**WHAT WE NEED**
LEAD PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

**OUR THINKING**
We provide skills, development opportunities and leadership support to our people so that they can hone their skills to do more and give more in support of each other, our clients and our communities in a supportive, yet performance driven, environment.

**WHO WE ARE?**
We’re an innovative technology company with strong ties to the financial industry. Innovating bank interoperability since 1972, supporting the growth of the South African Economy and individuals across the continent, is what we excel at. Continuously striving for financial inclusion and providing everyone with access to the digital economy enabling them to do more, get more and benefit from financial inclusion so that they can give more.

**WHAT WE DO**
Access to financial Inclusion ensures individual growth and economic growth - securing the growth of the African nation. We have served this noble purpose for five decades across the African Continent and our growth spurs us on to do more, give more and include more.
We are firm believers in people and the Adaptability Quotient (AQ) inherent in each of us, it is this AQ that makes us strive to thrive. BankservAfrica have a high AQ and it is this quality that has driven our business to continuously innovate and evolve, building capability and capacity to include more, enabling there to access to the countries financial landscape.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**
This role forms part of the Enterprise Project Management Office. You would be required to take overall responsibility for Programme Management within BankservAfrica. The role will include providing leadership for the programme management discipline.

The Lead Programme Management will oversee all Programme Management activity within the EPMO ensuring that programme managers maximise the results for the achievement of their programmes objectives.
Some of the primary tasks to ensure the achievement of the goal of the programme management process include:
assessing the suitability of projects for inclusion in the respective programmes.
maintaining effective programmes through active progress tracking

Responsibilities of the Lead Programme Management include Programme coordination, distribution of information material, as well as steering committee and project meetings.
Manages departmental budget and costs
Manages product life cycle relevant to department/area
Builds capability and future talent
Coaches managers and technical specialists
Manages relevant stakeholders
Responsible for risk and compliance management in department

Oversee programme managers in all areas of their responsibilities, including planning, identifying milestones, and risk plans. Ensuring programme managers achieve programme time and budget objectives, the delivery of the contracted results or end product, as well as effectively manage programme stakeholder relationships.

Key stakeholders the Lead Programme Management will engage with are:
Bank and Corporate Clients
Regulatory Bodies
Auditors and Consultants
Internal, Bank and Service Provider Programme Managers
IT Managers, Contractors, and vendors
Management and Executive Management Business Units and Product Owners
Lead Portfolio Management

**Requirements**:
QUALIFICATION/KNOWLEDGE (INCLUDING MOST RELEVANT FIELD OF STUDY)
Bachelor’s degree with honours.
PGMP certification.
PMP certification.
Required computer literacy levels in the MS Office suite and applicable Programme Management Applications.

EXPERIENCE (INCLUDING RELEVANT SECTOR SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE)
Minimum 10 years’ experience in Programme Management.
Experience in Payments and Banking industry will be an advantage.
Experience in leading a Programme Management team.
Experience in budget management.
Experience in facilitating meetings and consultations with internal and external stakeholders at various levels.