Strategy Execution, Governance & Portfolio Visibility Manager at Equity Bank – October 2026

Job Title: Strategy Execution, Governance & Portfolio Visibility Manager
Organization: Equity Bank Tanzania Limited (EBTL)
Department: Operations
Job Location: Tanzania
Employment Type: Full-Time, Regular
Job Level: Manager
Work Schedule: Day Job
Posting Date: 26 October 2026
Application Deadline: Not specified in the provided announcement
Job Category: Strategy, Business Transformation, Project Management, Governance and Operations

About Equity Bank Tanzania Limited

Equity Bank Tanzania Limited (EBTL) is part of the Equity Group, a financial services group operating across African markets. The bank provides financial services to individuals, businesses, and institutions.

The Strategy Execution, Governance & Portfolio Visibility Manager will support the bank’s Business Excellence function by coordinating strategic initiatives, strengthening governance, monitoring transformation programmes, and ensuring that management has a clear and reliable view of execution progress.

Job Overview

Equity Bank Tanzania Limited is seeking an experienced professional to oversee strategy execution governance and maintain visibility across the bank’s enterprise transformation portfolio.

The successful candidate will coordinate the translation of strategic priorities into executable initiatives, ensuring that each initiative has clear ownership, defined milestones, measurable targets, and appropriate governance arrangements.

The role will establish and maintain a consolidated view of strategic and transformation initiatives, coordinate executive reporting, monitor delivery risks, and ensure that commitments made by the Board, Managing Director, Executive Committee (EXCO), and other stakeholders are tracked through to completion.

The position requires strong programme governance, stakeholder management, executive communication, and project portfolio management capabilities. The successful candidate must be able to maintain governance standards and accountability while working with senior stakeholders across a complex banking environment.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategy-to-Execution Translation and Portfolio Visibility

• Coordinate enterprise transformation initiatives, ensuring that programmes are appropriately governed, aligned, monitored, and reported across the bank.
• Translate strategic priorities into clearly defined initiatives with assigned owners, milestones, deliverables, and measurable performance targets.
• Manage the formal registration and scoping of initiatives before they enter the portfolio tracker.
• Ensure all initiatives originating from Board directives, EXCO commitments, Group mandates, and workstream expansions follow established intake and governance procedures.
• Maintain a consolidated portfolio view of strategic and transformation initiatives.
• Ensure strategic objectives, delivery plans, performance targets, and transformation outcomes remain aligned across departments and programmes.
• Support initiative prioritization and sequencing based on strategic importance, dependencies, and institutional exposure.
• Align initiative delivery and performance monitoring with the institutional Balanced Scorecard.

2. Governance Reporting

• Prepare structured reports for the Board, EXCO, Management Committee (ManCo), Steering Committees (SteerCo), and other governance forums.
• Maintain Red, Amber, and Green (RAG) status reporting across the initiative portfolio.
• Coordinate and quality-assure committee reports and presentation packs to meet executive reporting standards.
• Coordinate the preparation of Strategic Execution Health Reports for submission to the Managing Director.
• Provide clear and reliable updates on initiative performance, delivery status, risks, and transformation progress.

3. Directive, Decision and Risk Governance

• Maintain the Board, Managing Director, and EXCO Directive Execution Log.
• Track executive directives and Board commitments through to completion, ensuring visible ownership and accountability.
• Maintain a structured decision register documenting approvals, decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and management actions.
• Maintain issue, risk, and dependency logs, ensuring unresolved matters receive appropriate attention and action.
• Escalate material governance and delivery risks through established protocols where institutional exposure exists.
• Preserve transparent, accurate, and audit-ready governance records.

4. Delivery Governance and Coordination

• Establish and maintain a disciplined governance schedule for programme and initiative delivery.
• Manage the formal change-control process for active portfolio initiatives.
• Assess, document, and obtain appropriate approval for changes to scope, timelines, budgets, and resource assumptions.
• Maintain controlled project baselines to support reliable milestone tracking and RAG assessments.
• Map dependencies across initiatives and identify sequencing conflicts that could threaten delivery commitments.
• Maintain a portfolio-wide resource and capacity conflict tracker.
• Identify competing demands for subject matter experts, IT resources, branch network access, and departmental capacity, escalating conflicts before they affect delivery.
• Manage formal initiative close-out procedures, ensuring deliverables are accepted, lessons are documented, accountability is discharged, and records are retained.
• Maintain stakeholder maps and monitor stakeholder influence and engagement across EXCO-level stakeholders.

5. Execution Governance and Management Platforms

• Maintain accurate and current portfolio information through programme management platforms such as Monday.com or equivalent systems.
• Promote consistent application of governance procedures across strategic initiatives.
• Apply Business Excellence operating principles, including enterprise-first thinking, clear accountability, evidence-based intervention, and a culture of responsibility for results.
• Ensure portfolio information remains reliable and supports effective decision-making and execution oversight.

Qualifications and Requirements

1. Education

Applicants must possess:

• A minimum bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Public Administration, Strategy, Engineering, Project Management, Management Science, or a related field.
• A postgraduate qualification, such as an MBA, MSc in Strategy, or equivalent, is strongly preferred.

2. Professional Qualifications

The following qualifications and competencies are relevant to the role:

• Project management certification, such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or MSP, is an added advantage.
• A portfolio or programme governance qualification, such as Management of Portfolios (MoP) or P3O, is a significant advantage.
• Demonstrable proficiency in a programme management platform or work operating system, such as Monday.com, Asana, or an equivalent tool, is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI is a strong advantage.

3. Critical Skills and Competencies

Candidates should demonstrate the following:

• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, communication, facilitation, critical-thinking, and organizational skills.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional execution and deliver high-quality outcomes at executive level.
• Proficiency in AI-enabled productivity tools for analysis, executive reporting, insight generation, and governance efficiency.
• Expertise in enterprise portfolio governance and strategy execution.
• Ability to prepare structured executive reports and governance communications for EXCO and Board-level audiences.
• Knowledge of issue, risk, dependency, change, and decision governance.
• Experience mapping cross-functional dependencies and managing stakeholder influence.
• Ability to synthesize complex, multi-stream delivery information into a clear executive governance overview.
• Exceptional written communication skills, including the ability to prepare high-quality committee papers requiring minimal revision.

4. Work Experience

Applicants must meet the following experience requirements:

• At least seven years of professional experience, including a minimum of four years in governance, project management office (PMO), strategy execution, transformation governance, or management consulting.
• Relevant experience must be within a bank, financial institution, or large regulated organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing competing priorities and stakeholders at EXCO level.
• Experience within a Group or holding-company structure, involving subsidiary accountability and Group oversight, is a significant advantage.
• Previous exposure to large-scale transformation programmes is required; experience limited to routine project coordination will not be sufficient.

5. Behavioural and Professional Requirements

The role requires a professional who can maintain governance standards while working with senior stakeholders and managing competing institutional priorities.

Candidates should demonstrate the ability to:

• Challenge stakeholders respectfully and maintain evidence-based positions.
• Follow up on overdue commitments without compromising governance standards.
• Maintain confidentiality, political neutrality, and appropriate stakeholder boundaries.
• Communicate concisely with executives while retaining analytical depth.
• Distinguish facts, inferences, and opinions, and maintain clear audit trails.
• Remain composed under pressure, ambiguity, conflicting narratives, and challenging stakeholder interactions.
• Propose practical solutions when escalating issues.
• Maintain credibility, accountability, and consistent governance standards across complex programmes.
• Exercise sound professional judgment and uphold the integrity of management reporting.

Employment Details

Item	Details
Department	Operations
Employment Type	Regular, Full-Time
Job Level	Manager
Job Shift	Day Job
Posting Date	26 October 2026
Application Deadline	Not specified

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications through the official Equity Bank recruitment portal.

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Applicants should review the official vacancy page for complete application instructions and confirm that the position is still open before submitting their applications.

Application Deadline: Not stated in the supplied announcement. Check the official recruitment portal for the current application status.