About MTN

Mobile Money Rwanda Limited is focused on attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining professionals that contribute meaningfully to our mission of making our customers’ lives a whole lot BRIGHTER.

We are an equal employer with a strong culture that looks forward to and encourages creative thinking and innovation while remaining at the forefront of the latest technology and trends.

Mobile Money Rwanda Limited is therefore internally and externally recruiting a highly competent and self-motivated individual for the position below.

Mission/Core purpose of the Job

Responsible for establishing and maintaining project governance, standards, tools, and oversight across technology and business initiatives at MTN Rwanda.
The PMO ensures that all projects — particularly in mobile money, payments, digital lending, and platform transformation — are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with strategic objectives, while adhering to regulatory requirements and operational priorities.
The PMO serves as the central coordination and performance management function, enabling efficient execution of complex, cross-functional programmes.

Key Performance Areas

Project Governance & Frameworks: Establish and enforce project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid); define and maintain PMO standards, policies, templates, and tools.
Ensure projects comply with internal governance frameworks and regulatory requirements (financial services, data protection, AML/CFT); maintain centralised project portfolio visibility and reporting.
Portfolio & Programme Management: Manage and track portfolio of IT and business projects across mobile money platforms (wallets, P2P, merchant services), digital lending and financial services, and infrastructure and system upgrades.

Prioritise initiatives based on strategic value, risk, and resource availability; provide regular reporting to executive leadership on project health, risks, issues, budget, and resource utilisation.
Project Planning & Execution Oversight: Ensure all projects have clear scope and objectives, detailed project plans and timelines, and defined deliverables and milestones; monitor execution and ensure adherence to time, cost, and quality targets; conduct stage-gate reviews at key project milestones.
Stakeholder Coordination: Facilitate collaboration between Technology teams (Operations, Infrastructure, Software Development and Security), Business units (Products, Sales and Distribution, Finance), and external partners and vendors.
Act as a single point of coordination for cross-functional initiatives; ensure alignment with executive priorities and transformation goals. Risk, Issue & Change Management: Identify and track project risks, issues, and blockers.
Manage change requests (CRs) and user requirement specifications (URSs); implement structured risk mitigation and escalation processes; maintain a centralised risk and issue register; ensure proper change governance and impact assessment.
Financial & Resource Management: Track project budgets, expenditures, and financial performance; ensure efficient allocation of human and technical resources; monitor vendor performance and contract deliverables; provide cost optimisation insights across project execution; produce budget variance reports for executive review. Reporting & Performance Management.
Develop executive dashboards and reports covering portfolio status, KPI performance, and delivery timelines; track key metrics: on-time delivery, budget adherence, and resource utilisation; provide actionable insights to improve delivery performance.
Tools & Automation: Implement and manage project management tools (Jira, MS Project, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps); drive adoption of workflow automation, project tracking systems, and reporting dashboards; enhance efficiency through data-driven project management practices.
Regulatory & Compliance Oversight: Ensure projects comply with central bank regulations, AML/CFT obligations (where system changes are involved), and data protection and privacy laws; maintain audit-ready documentation for all projects.
Prepares and submits monthly PMO performance reports to IT leadership.

Experience

7–12+ years in project management or PMO roles.
Experience in fintech, mobile money, banking, or telecom environments.
Experience managing large-scale transformation programmes and IT and digital platform delivery. Proven track record in multi-project portfolio management.

Education Background

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, or related field. Fluent in English.

How To Apply

All interested candidates are requested to apply through the MTN website and submit their updated curriculum vitae with copies of notified academic credentials no later than 16^th June 2026 MTN Website portal: https://www.mtn.co.rw/careers/

We strongly encourage applications from women and/or individuals with disabilities.

Note: Should you not hear from us within 14 (fourteen) days from the closing date of this advertisement, you may consider your application unsuccessful. If you encounter any issues when completing the application, reach out to Alozius.Mutamba@mtn.com (+250788319965)

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