Director of Enterprise Project Management Office (FinTech / Cryptocurrency) at Black Pen Recruitment

Black Pen Recruitment - Our client is Africa’s portal into the cryptoeconomy. They are building financial infrastructure - a centralised crypto exchange, and a wallet, a lending platform, an NFT platform, and other products - to fully bring Sub-Saharan Africa into the new world of decentralised finance, ownership, and creativity.

With the backing of premier crypto investors and Silicon Valley VC firms, they are now approaching the introduction of their first products to their launch markets, which are Kenya and Nigeria. An empowered, dynamic, and knowledgeable research effort is core to their enterprise, because only with the most deep and thorough understanding of the evolving crypto, regulatory, and business landscape can they orchestrate the complete crypto-transformation of Africa.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Enterprise Project Management Office (FinTech / Cryptocurrency)

Location: Lagos 
Job Type: Full-time
Industry: Financial Services

Responsibilities

• The periodic definition and refinement of quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and associated projects and initiatives for each department, and the ensuing alignment of these to company-wide OKRs.
• Oversight and support to overall project management across all departments including weekly/bi-weekly touchpoints with team leads.
• Definition, implementation, and training of the team on project management tools that all departments will use in their operations.
• Maintenance of the company’s project management dashboard.
• Analysis of cross-departmental priorities, challenges, and opportunities to feed into Executive Committee strategy and operational oversight.
• Coordination and leadership of project managers and project management staff who work directly with the Enterprise Project Management Office across the different departments.
• Occasional execution of other ad-hoc tasks as assigned by members the company’s Executive Committee.

Requirements

• 7+ years direct project management experience within a corporate or start-up environment.
• Experience building and managing project management offices. It’s preferable if some of this experience is building “from zero”.
• Strong pre-existing and demonstrable knowledge of project management tools, techniques, and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of Agile dynamics, including how to work with and implement scrum and sprints.
• Ability to multitask and to manage varied priorities across multiple senior internal and external stakeholders that are geographically dispersed
• Adaptability to an ever-changing environment; the candidate does not shy away from accountability.

Remuneration
Salary + Benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.