Mission
To provide a ladder of opportunity to underserved communities in Rwanda, as we proclaim and live the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Method
We share the hope of Christ as we provide financial services and biblically based training that restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty.
Motivation
The love of Jesus Christ motivates us to identify with those living in poverty and be His hands and feet as we strive to glorify God.
POSITION: Integrated strategy officer
REPORTS TO: Chief Executive Officer
SUPERVISES: None
DEPARTMENT: Executive
LOCATION: Head Office
STATUS: Open Ended
JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE
- The Integrated Strategy Officer provides strategic advice and technical assistance to the CEO’s office of Urwego Bank, leads special projects and strategic initiatives at the request of the CEO.
- The Integrated Strategy Officer to the CEO will lead, direct, and coordinate special projects and initiatives under the guidance of Urwego and HOPE leadership, all done in support of Urwego’s Christ-centered microenterprise development in Rwanda.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Promote and fulfill the mission and vision of Urwego Bank.
Spiritual Integration and Christian Witness
- Ensure a personal, healthy spiritual balance within family, work, and church life through the adoption of biblical personal and spiritual disciplines.
- Conduct daily work, make decisions, and help Urwego make decisions in a way that witnesses to the presence, power, and love of Jesus and the reality of his Kingdom on earth.
- Provide support towards the fulfillment of Urwego’s Spiritual Integration (SI) objectives.
- Relationship Building and Management
- Intentionally invest in building strong, God-honoring relationships with the Urwego leadership and staff.
- In all the above, ensure that relationships are marked by Urwego’s Christ-centered values.
Strategy
- Assist the CEO with developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining corporate strategic initiatives and objectives.
- Contribute to work of re-envisioning a more transformational, productive, and profitable Urwego while creating and executing a plan to realize that the shared vision.
- Gain commitment to clear strategic plans across all business units and functions, ensuring that all employees understand the details of the strategic plan, OKRs, KPIs and how their work connects to organizational goals.
- Gather, investigate, research, analyze, prepare reports, and facilitate discussions on information pertaining to the Bank’s operations and reputation.
Capacity Building
- Coach, equip and train branch and departmental leadership on how to formulate an effective strategy, how to present the strategy to the senior executive team, and how to execute the strategy successfully; and
- Build technical and analytical skills across the organization, with an emphasis on Excel and using data to inform (and reflect upon) actions, prioritization, decisionmaking, management, strategy, and the accomplishment of Urwego’s mission.
Data Analysis
- Analyse portfolio trends, historical performance of the 3 key broad loan grouping of Urwego on weekly basis.
- Provide data analysis in terms of client performance to the management to ease decision making.
- Work with a variety of departments including business stakeholders to undertake effective requirements gathering and analysis.
- Extract and data warehouse financial and non-financial data from multiple external sources for the purpose of benchmarking organizational performance.
- Review and conduct sectoral surveys and business Intelligence to inform performance, pricing, and product development decisions at Urwego Bank.
Operations and Reporting
- Assist branch and departmental teams in the completion of existing and new reporting, analysis, and other associated tools. Reporting on KPIs and OKRs and follow up with department heads.
- Based on ongoing assessment of current product(s) and market innovations, provide recommendations to the Urwego senior management on improvements to current products and services as well as new market entry and new product development; and
- Support the Urwego Operations team to further develop and regularly update policies, procedures, and checklists across the organization.
- Coordinate and facilitate preparation of regular reporting as requested by the CEO and the executive team.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS.
- Personal confession of faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to the mission and vision of Urwego Bank.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, or related field; master’s preferred.
- certifications o in areas such as data analytics, digital marketing, or project management.
- Professional experience in strategic planning, analysis, and execution in microenterprise development, banking, or financial services sector.
- Ability to build strong relationships and work effectively cross-culturally.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to self-manage, including effective time management and prioritization of competing demands/multiple deadlines.
- Ability to conduct business analysis and prepare recommendations for presentation to senior leadership and Board.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability and inclination to equip others to succeed at their roles and develop as both professionals and persons vs. independent accomplishment of goals.
- Full professional proficiency in spoken/written English, working proficiency of French or Kinyarwanda is advantageous.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, and experience with other Microsoft Office Suite products.
HOW TO APPLY.
Interested and eligible applicants should send the following documents to
UrwegoHR@urwegobank.com not later than 5th March 2024 at 5pm. Applications should be addressed to HR Department and in the subject line indicate Integrated strategy Officer.
REQUIRED APPLICATION DOCUMENTS
- Application letter explaining your suitability for the position,
- Curriculum vitae with 2 referee names and Addresses.
- Notarized Academic Documents, and additional certificates if any.
- Recommendation from your Church with a validity of not less than 6 Months
- Your statement of Faith.
- Copy of ID
- Criminal Record Form from Irembo.
Only selected candidates will be contacted for the interviews.
Thank you.
Urwego Bank PLC
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