Digital Strategist Career Jobs – UGAFODE Microfinance Limited (MDI)
Organization: UGAFODE Microfinance Limited (MDI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: CEO
About US:
UGAFODE Microfinance Limited (MDI) is a registered financial institution in Uganda and is adherent to the Central Bank’s regulations and guidelines and was founded in 1994 to provide quality microfinance services.
Job Summary: The Digital Strategist will contribute to the development of the business’s digital strategy and the delivery of multiple technology solutions across all departments within the business, by ensuring consistency in delivery approach. The role will work closely with the Head of ICT to overhaul the business’s digital services and channels while growing a team and meeting the company’s objectives through digital transformation, improved digital customer experience and a more effective digital product range.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assessing internal services suitability for digital transformation and rigorously prioritizing involvement by customer or cost saving benefit.
- Ensure best practices and processes across the digital team for the consistent delivery of digital projects Oversee pre-implementation plans, which include development of business requirements, detailed functional requirements, review of change management business impact, human resources and risks. Ensure all digitalization projects are effectively managed, and that adequate reporting and oversight controls are in place.
- Promote partnerships that further digital agenda
- Providing advice to management on innovations that could best support customer needs.
- Maintain full awareness of the performance of individual processes, including the identification and resolution of risks, critical issues, and opportunities through digitalization.
- Driving cultural change and helping build digital capability and technical knowledge within the business: advocating user focused design and agile project methodologies
- Helping put in place new guidance and training for service owners and project managers; advising on the structures needed for future digital transform
- Be a thought leader on new digital trends and opportunities that the business can incorporate into its digital strategy to drive strategic growth ambitions
- Strong experience managing transformation projects from start to finish, gathering user requirements through prototypes to actual delivery and iteration. Valuable experience will include project managing a financial services product launch from inception and product design to pilot and commercial launch, working across multiple teams in the business to deliver project KPIs
- Experience delivering change activities and working effectively with senior management.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the UGAFODE Microfinance Limited (MDI) Digital Strategist job must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT or any related field
- At least five years of experience with two years in a leading technology organization in financial services (BOU regulated)
- Recognized professional certifications in IT
- Experience in developing products, product positioning, launching new products and developing and executing go – to – market strategies Project management skills
- Good understanding of Banks operations and compliance risk framework Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, internally and externally
- Comfortable advocating and advancing an agenda, including with high level counterparts and other stakeholders;
- Demonstrates ethics and integrity;
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities, and resolve problems;
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested persons who meet the above criteria should submit their cover letter together with an up-to- date CV and Academic documents as one document to: recruitment@ugafode.co.ug (Please indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line). Applications should be addressed to the Head of Human Resource
Deadline: 13th March 2019
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