1.IT & Administration Officers
Job advert for IT & Administration Officers.
BDF Ltd is a public limited company whose mission is to promote SME Development through the provision of financial and non-financial services to enhance the lending mechanisms of financial institutions as the leading institution in facilitating both companies and individual bankable projects to access financial services, through the provision of financial facilities and business advisory services for national development.
With the above mandate BDF wishes to recruit Qualified and self-motivated staff to work at BDF Branches :
1. Position: IT & Administration officers (2)
Reporting to: Business Advisor (Branch Manager)
Office Location: BDF Branches: Rutsiro and Nyaruguru
Job Purpose:
Reporting to the Branch Manager and working closely the Head office IT and Finance teams to facilitate the team in performing their online duties and managing office-related activities.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Â Manage the branches ICT related issues networking, emailing, systems, internet, fibre among others.
- Â Provide basic computer training on Ms Word, Ms. Excel, PowerPoint, and Ms. Access to the beneficiaries.
- Perform network, hardware, and software troubleshooting basics and make acquisition and recommendations regarding repairing and replacement of damaged equipment’s.
- Â Identify community-training groups and mobilize them for training sessions.
- Â Identify the training needs of the clients and develop programs that would meet their needs.
- Design a timetable for training the clients in a well-organized manner that suits the communities in the area.
- Â Generate revenues through internet and IT training
- Assist in the Outreach and marketing in the district to encourage the private sector to use the branch services
- Â Maintaining a calendar of events taking place at the Branch
- Bookkeeping of all financial records and proofs of cash flow.
- Â Organize networking events and meetings.
- Â Receive and advise all walking in clients
- Maintain and capture all information of clients that visit the branch
- Â Manage the branch transactions
- Â Will be responsible for office management and management
Minimum requirements:
-  Bachelor’s degree in business computing and ICT from a recognized training institution or any equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience.
- Â At least a 3-year experience in the ICT field, finance, and customer care.
- Â A CISCO IT certificate as an instructor is an added advantage. Some with the above qualifications and with experience in accounting will be highly considered
- Age Limit is 35 years
- Â Must be fluent in Kinyarwanda and English with working knowledge of French
- Â Strong organizational skills.
- Â Strong analytical skills.
- Computer skills.
- Â High level of integrity and confidentiality
- Â Good interpersonal skills.
- Â Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Â Problem-solving, Decision-making
- Self-motivated,
How to apply: Please submit the following as one (1) document,
- Application letter with signed Curriculum Vitae,
- Â Notified copies of academic,
- Â Professional certificates,
- Â Employment certificates
- Â A copy of Identity card
- Â Contact details of three references
Send to BDF Info@bdf.rw, attention to Chief Executive Officer not later than 7th October 2021 at 11 A.M.
NB: Email subject should indicate Position title. BDF will contact only those who will be shortlisted.
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2.Software Developer
Job Vacancy
BDF Ltd is a public limited company whose mission is to promote SME Development through the provision of financial and non-financial services to enhance the lending mechanisms of financial institutions as the leading institution in facilitating both companies and individual bankable projects to access financial services, through the provision of financial facilities and business advisory services for national development.
With the above mandate, BDF would like to undertake a 2years digitization project that will focus on the development of the BDF Business core system and automation of BDF Business processes for smooth operations.
It is in this regard that, BDF wishes to recruit Qualified and self-motivated individuals in the following positions:
3. Position: Software Developer (1)
Reporting to both: Project Manager
Office Location: BDF Headquarters
Job purpose
Software Developer will be responsible for to monitoring systems’ development and take charge of completed developments for day-to-day maintenance purposes, also to do some changes in handling of the application.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Â Develop new software solutions for the institution
- Â Improving system quality by identifying issues and common patterns, and developing standard operating procedures
- Â Enhancing applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations and designing and implementing systems
- Â Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes
- Â Liaising with colleagues to implement technical designs
- Investigating and using new technologies where relevant
- Providing written knowledge transfer material
- Train system users on the new system functionalities or new systems deployed
- Spear head UAT
Qualifications and Knowledge required:
-  Bachelor’s degree (A0) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering with 5 years working experience in system integration, developing large software application, systems, and databases or,
- Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering with 3 years working experience in system integration, developing large software application, systems, and databases
- Required Certifications: Java Programing certificate
Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required:
- Proven experience as a Software developer
- Strong understanding of IT system development lifecycle, systems engineering, and systems integration implementation process
- Strong ability to understand how a particular solution fits into the overall client needs
- Systems implementation skills include requirements/process analysis, conceptual and detailed design, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Â Extensive experience in software development, scripting, and project management
- Â Experience in UI designing is an added advantage.
- Advanced knowledge of Server environments (window, linux, Unix)
- Proficient in RDBMS (expertise with Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions), database structures, and ADO)
- Extensive experience with database technologies (MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL Oracle, MongoDB)
- Documentation of the developed codes and systems
How to apply: Please submit the following as one (1) document,
- Â Application letter with signed Curriculum Vitae,
- Notified copies of academic,
- Â Professional certificates,
- Employment certificates
- Â A copy of Identity card
- Contact details of three references
Send to BDF Info@bdf.rw, attention to Chief Executive Officer not later than 7th October 2021 at 11 A.M.
NB: Email subject should indicate Position title. BDF will contact only those who will be shortlisted.
3.IT Business Analyst
Job Vacancy
BDF Ltd is a public limited company whose mission is to promote SME Development through the provision of financial and non-financial services to enhance the lending mechanisms of financial institutions as the leading institution in facilitating both companies and individual bankable projects to access financial services, through the provision of financial facilities and business advisory services for national development.
With the above mandate, BDF would like to undertake a 2years digitization project that will focus on the development of the BDF Business core system and automation of BDF Business processes for smooth operations.
It is in this regard that, BDF wishes to recruit Qualified and self-motivated individuals in the following positions:
2. Position: IT Business Analyst (1)
Reporting to both: Project Manager
Office Location: BDF Headquarters
Job Purpose
IT Business Analyst will be responsible for defining solution architectures, system requirements gathering and elicitation, coordinate change management, and managing product backlogs.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Responsible for the collection, analysis, review, documentation and communication of business needs and requirements.
- Conduct preliminary investigation for all digitization project requests.
- Â Review requirements, specifications, tests, support for the ongoing projects and training plans to ensure they are in line with business objectives on projects.
- Assist in the development of the Client business case to be automated
- Participate in business process modelling sessions identifying bottlenecks and proposing solutions
- Act as a documentarian, co-facilitator, facilitator or subject matter expert in business modelling sketch sessions.
- Conduct interviews and perform analysis to create business cases for projects.
- Participate in root cause analysis to recommend product enhancements or other appropriate actions to improve productivity
- May act as a project manager on some projects
- Â Develops solution architectures, functional specifications and system design specifications for client engagements.
- Prepare status updates for projects and consolidation of periodical reports
- Â Establishing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders ensuring that project-related changes are communicated and understood within the Institution/Ministry
- Â Prioritizing requests from various business units and project manage them together with various development team members.
- Work with the Project manager to enforce project deadlines and schedules
- Â Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to the proposed solution.
-  Identifies client organization’s strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement.
Qualifications and Knowledge required:
- Bachelor’s degree (A0) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Business IT, Information and Communication Technology with 5 years of working experience in Business Analysis Domain/Management information systems or,
- Masters’ Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business IT, Software Engineering, Information and Communication Technology with 3 years of working experience in Business Analysis, Management information systems.
- Certifications in A+, N+, CBAP and PMP is an added advantage
Skills & Attributes required:
- Proven experience as an IT Business Analyst
- Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Experience in banking/ financial institutions is an added advantage
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Â Logical and efficient, with keen attention to details.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Â Experience with data process modelling and tools like UML, BPEL
- Good understanding of ERP, BPM, CRM and BI, SOAP, WSDL, and XML
How to apply: Please submit the following as one (1) document,
- Â Application letter with signed Curriculum Vitae,
- Notified copies of academic,
- Â Professional certificates,
- Employment certificates
- Â A copy of the Identity card
- Contact details of three references
Send to BDF Info@bdf.rw, attention to Chief Executive Officer not later than 7th October 2021 at 11 A.M.
NB: Email subject should indicate Position title. BDF will contact only those who will be shortlisted.
4.Project Manager
Job Vacancy
BDF Ltd is a public limited company whose mission is to promote SME Development through the provision of financial and non-financial services to enhance the lending mechanisms of financial institutions as the leading institution in facilitating both companies and individual bankable projects to access financial services, through the provision of financial facilities and business advisory services for national development.
With the above mandate, BDF would like to undertake a 2years digitization project that will focus on the development of the BDF Business core system and automation of BDF Business processes for smooth operations.
It is in this regard that, BDF wishes to recruit Qualified and self-motivated individuals in the following positions:
1. Position: Project Manager (1)
Reporting: Chief Executive OfficerÂ
 Office location: BDF Headquarters
Job Purpose The project manager will be responsible for coordinating the whole digitization activities, team management and ensure the proper implementation of the project,
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
- Maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
- Maintains the organization’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
- Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
- Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments.
- Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
- Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
- Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing a project budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
- Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards
- Â Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Qualifications and knowledge required:
- Bachelor’s degree (A0) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information, and Communication Technology with 5 years of working experience or,
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information, and Communication Technology with 3 years working experience in Business Analysis, Management information systems, IT System Architecture Design
- Â Certification Required: Project Management certificate is a must. Presentation Enterprise Architecture like TOGAF/ITIL is an added advantage.
Key Technical Skills & Attributes:
- Proven experience of a project manager
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skill
- Strong understanding of solution governance frameworks such as TOGAF. – Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills. – Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
How to apply: Please submit the following as one (1) document,
- Â Application letter with signed Curriculum Vitae,
- Notified copies of academic,
- Â Professional certificates,
- Employment certificates
- Â A copies of Identity card
- Contact details of three references
Send to BDF Info@bdf.rw, attention to Chief Executive Officer not later than 7th October 2021 at 11 A.M.
NB: Email subject should indicate Position title. BDF will contact only those who will be shortlisted.
