About This Role
This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution within a growing financial institution. It involves building the systems and standards that ensure every project the bank initiates is aligned with its broader goals, properly resourced, and governed effectively. The position suits an experienced project management professional who enjoys designing frameworks and influencing how work gets prioritized and reviewed, rather than managing a single project day-to-day.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The requirements point to a profile that blends deep project management expertise with a strategic, enterprise-level mindset. The bank is looking for someone who not only knows methodologies like Agile and PRINCE2 but can also adapt and standardize them for a banking context. This signals a need for a candidate who can bridge technical project disciplines with senior stakeholder engagement, governance, and portfolio-level decision-making.
How to Approach This Application
Your application should demonstrate your ability to design and implement governance frameworks, not just execute projects. Emphasize any experience you have in creating portfolio management processes, managing project pipelines, or facilitating review sessions with senior leadership. Highlight specific examples of how you aligned multiple projects with organizational strategy or improved governance in a financial or regulated environment.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for an experienced project management professional with 5–8 years in portfolio governance, ideally within banking or a similarly regulated sector. It is a senior, specialized position, so competition will be moderate but focused on candidates with proven framework-building experience.
Vacancy Details:
Vacancy No: SB/HCM/0203/26
Job Summary: Responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving the Bank’s portfolio management framework, methodologies, and standards, ensuring consistency, governance, and strategic alignment across all projects.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain enterprise portfolio management processes
Manage project pipeline, demand intake, and prioritization frameworks
Facilitate portfolio review sessions and governance forums
Define and maintain project management methodologies (waterfall, agile, hybrid)
Develop standardized templates, tools, and documentation frameworks
Ensure alignment with international standards (PMI, PRINCE2, where applicable)
Ensure all projects adhere to defined governance structures and stage gates
Support compliance with internal audit and regulatory expectations
Maintain documentation for governance traceability
Support enterprise-level resource planning and capacity analysis
Identify resource constraints and recommend optimization strategies
Maintain documentation and frameworks
Perform other duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in the Business area/ Project Management, or related field.
- With 6/8 years of financial institutions experience, of which 2 years were in project/program or PMO roles
How To Apply
Applicants who meet the above requirements are required to submit their application letter and a short CV in PDF format not exceeding 3 pages, via the website www.ethiojobs.net. Please note that hard copies or physical applications will not be accepted. Shabelle Bank reserves the right to cancel the advertised position at its discretion. Additionally, the Bank does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.
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