Leads enterprise transformation coordination, strategy execution governance, portfolio visibility, executive reporting, risk and dependency management, and delivery discipline across Equity Bank's strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the central coordination lead for enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Translate strategic priorities into executable enterprise initiatives with owners, milestones, deliverables, and measurable targets.
- Own the formal registration and scoping of initiatives before they enter the portfolio tracker.
- Maintain consolidated enterprise visibility across strategic and transformation initiatives.
- Ensure strategic objectives, delivery plans, performance targets, and transformation outcomes remain aligned.
- Support prioritisation and sequencing of initiatives based on strategic significance, dependencies, and institutional exposure.
- Align initiative delivery and performance tracking to the institutional Balanced Scorecard.
- Produce Board, EXCO, ManCo, SteerCo, and Board-adjacent reporting on initiative performance and transformation progress.
- Maintain RAG status reporting across the portfolio.
- Coordinate and quality-assure committee packs for Managing Director sign-off.
- Coordinate Strategic Execution Health Reports submitted to the Managing Director.
- Maintain the Board, Managing Director, and EXCO Directive Execution Log through to completion.
- Maintain decision, issue, risk, and dependency registers and escalate unresolved or material risks.
- Establish and maintain a disciplined delivery governance cadence.
- Own formal change control for active portfolio initiatives and maintain controlled delivery baselines.
- Map cross-initiative dependencies and identify sequencing conflicts.
- Maintain a resource and capacity conflict tracker and escalate competing resource demands.
- Own formal initiative close-out, including deliverable acceptance, lessons learned, accountability discharge, and record retention.
- Maintain stakeholder maps and track stakeholder influence and disposition.
- Operate and enforce execution governance through Monday.com or an equivalent programme management platform.
- Apply enterprise-first thinking, single-point accountability, fact-based intervention, and consequence culture across governance activities.
Requirements
- Enterprise portfolio governance and strategy execution.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, communication, facilitation, critical thinking, and organisational skills.
- Cross-functional execution coordination and executive-level delivery management.
- Structured executive reporting and governance communication at EXCO and Board-adjacent level.
- Issue, risk, dependency, change, and decision governance.
- Cross-functional dependency mapping and stakeholder influence management.
- Ability to synthesise complex, multi-stream delivery into a clear executive governance view.
- Exceptional written communication and ability to produce executive-quality committee papers requiring minimal revision.
- Proficiency in AI-enabled productivity tools for analysis, executive reporting, insight generation, and governance efficiency.
- Ability to challenge respectfully, maintain governance standards under senior pressure, and follow up on overdue commitments.
- Ability to distinguish fact, inference, and opinion while preserving audit trails.
- Ability to remain composed under hostility, ambiguity, shifting narratives, and senior pressure.
- Ability to bring solutions with escalations and sustain rigour across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
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