African Entrepreneur Collective Fintech Project Manager Jobs in Kenya

African Entrepreneur Collective Fintech Project Manager Jobs in Kenya

About the Company

Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in order to improve livelihoods and to create thriving communities.

Founded in 2012, Inkomoko has worked with more than 41,000 entrepreneurs across East Africa, including thousands of refugees. Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change, which results in thousands of new jobs. We are the largest lender to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa.

Inkomoko has 250+ staff in 20 offices across Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia, and will open in South Sudan in 2023. By 2030, we will expand to 4 additional countries to serve over 550,000 entrepreneurs, and deploy a $30M USD investment fund.

About the Opportunity

The Fintech Project Manager will be a new position for Inkomoko as we scale our lending and financial inclusion products across East Africa, and seek new internal finance systems digitization.

Current projects in the IT Roadmap include automating payroll, digital cash management,, accounting software upgrade, mobile loan app development, building AI modules for automated due diligence on lending, migration to a Core Banking Solution, establishing a digital payment gateway, and API integrations with our banking/telecom/investment partners.

Responsibilities

The IT Project Manager will be technical enough to manage a range of IT projects, but as a project manager won’t do the development themselves. Specifically, the role will include:

User Requirements and Project Inception

Detect gaps that can be closed by fintech projects, develop user requirements and collaborate with co-workers, and identify solutions that are fit for the user and purpose

Leverage newer technologies (machine learning, AI, etc) to be forward-looking in our approaches to solving challenges

Direct and manage technology project development from inception to end rollout.

Define project scope, goals, success criteria, and deliverables

Draft and complete detailed Business Requirements and Statement of Work (SOW) with the project sponsors

Develop a full-scale project plan, including budgets, timelines, milestones, and allocating human resources (select and manage vendors and on-staff developers) to implement projects using Agile methodologies

Work with other team members to prioritize projects in the IT Roadmap

Develop/modify and implement processes and systems to add value to Inkomoko’s lending strategy as we enter new geographies, and work with the investment team to configure new investment products

Continual improvement of client-facing services through maintaining knowledge of tech solutions and proposing options that are appropriate for rural, low-bandwidth clients

Project Management

Once a project is approved, track project milestones

and deliverables, and develop/deliver

Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate staff and consultants

Coordinate with the IT Project Manager, Developers, and UI/UX team for design and coding

Ongoing troubleshooting problem areas, raising challenges

Manage sprints and serve as scrum master for approved projects

Coordinate with the QA Analyst for ensuring usability and value to users

Use Asana and Jira to document and record project status

Proactively and effectively communicate to project sponsors

Establish roll-out and adoption plans, including developing training materials, user guides

Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report

Minimum Qualifications

The position requires a broad technical background in project/program management and in building and managing multiple complex projects and customer relationships.

5 years of fintech project management in Africa, with bachelor’s degree preferred

Scrumaster experience - has run complicated tech projects, on-time and within budget from start to finish, ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Coding language preferred, but not required. Must have a working understanding of languages in our stack: Python, XML, Javascript, Postgresql

Experience with Human-Centered Design and UI/UX

Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects (5-10 projects at a time)

Exceptional oral and written communication in English, plus one East African language

Familiarity with CRM/ERP systems is required, and Odoo and Mifos are highly desirable.

Experience managing vendor service level agreements and securing vendor deliverables.

What You'll Get

This role is a tremendous opportunity to work in a high-growth, mission-driven organization. Our compensation includes both a great culture and a competitive market-based package, including:

Incredible company culture, including deep investment in your learning and growth, and a commitment to inclusion and diversity

Opportunity to work with a talented, passionate, and committed team of professionals across the region

Ability to make a significant social impact and contribute to economic growth

Competitive salary, and potential KPI-based bonus

Favorable policies like health insurance, staff savings program, parental leave, sabbatical program, and more.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; African Entrepreneur Collective Fintech Project Manager Jobs in Kenya

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