14^th March, 2025

JOB ADVERT

We are looking for creative, agile and result driven individuals to fill the position of IT Data Base Administrator.

Reports to:       IT Services Manager

Duty Station:  Head Office.

Job purpose:

The Reports and Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for planning, coordination, utilization and administration of Databases including Oracle relational databases, MS-SQL relational databases and development of System reports in the core banking system. 

Key Result Areas:

• Install, configure and setup of databases as in line with the IT policy
• Assigns and controls names used for the various portions of data base to include, transaction codes, elements, tables, records, schema and sub-schema.
• Ensures adequate security safeguards are in place to control access to all databases.
• Ensures the integrity of database files through the daily monitoring of database backups, logs, journals and transaction statistics.
• Oversees the proper distribution and controlled replication of data across Disaster Recovery (DR) sites and databases.
• Plans and executes performance tests of physical data base designs.
• Allocates disk space for new data tables and monitors space utilization for existing data tables.
• Makes adjustments to table sizes and locations to ensure efficient use of resources and to optimize performance.
• Manages schema and sub-schema libraries, and responds to requests for data views.
• Implements database backup and recovery plans, and performs database recoveries and coordination with other areas of the IT department.
• Monitors and reviews operating statistics for conformance to performance standards and overall system performance goals.
• Maintains documentation about test and production database environments to help resolve potential production problems.
• Prepares periodic reports on the status of all database systems to including performance data, economics data and database usage.
• Provide user Support on the Core banking and other related business applications
• Provide Credit reference Bureau support
• Run end of day processing in the core banking system
• Develop and design system accurate system reports in the core banking system
• Ensure reports are available and accessible to intended users in a timely manner
• Any other duties assigned by supervisor from time to time.

Qualifications & Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in IT related Field.
• A minimum of 3 years in Database Management Oracle / MS SQL certified.
• Experience with database support and development tasks in both a transactional and DSS environments.
• Experience in report development using scripts
• Oracle / MS SQL / Sybase DBA certification is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle / MS SQL / Sybase databases.
• Knowledge of programming in SQL, PL/SQL.
• Knowledge of Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems.

Personal skills and abilities

• Proven ability of translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Proven ability to provide solutions to complex technical problems in a creative and analytic manner.
• Proven ability to balance, prioritize, and organize multiple tasks.
• High level of energy, creativity, flexibility, enthusiasm and commitment self-confidence and initiative.
• Accuracy, attention to detail and awareness of deadlines.
• Hard working self-starter with initiative.

Opportunity Bank is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of disability, gender, marital status, religion and ethnicity.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents,

together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Thursday 20^th March 2025.

11^th March, 2025

JOB ADVERT

We are looking for creative, agile and result driven individuals to fill the position of

Payroll Relationship Officer.

Reports to:                                       Assistant Manager Relationship

Number of Vaccancies:                  06

Duty Station:                                   Mityana, Kyenjojo, Kira, Kikuubo, Nansana and Iganga.

Job purpose:

To grow the Payroll business in terms of assets (loans) and liabilities (customer deposits), customer base and income through personal selling activities within existing customer portfolio and getting new ones within the Bank’s target markets. Effective relationship management resulting in optimisation of customer satisfaction, retention and wallet share through multiple marketing solutions (cross-selling) from the entire range of the bank’s products and services is critical.

Key Result Areas:

1. Business growth (Sales management and Customer satisfaction)
   1. Working hand in hand with the payroll manager in developing, supervise and control implementation of the Payroll products growth strategy and outreach plans in line with the approved budget and timelines
   2. Responsible for the growth of Assets and liabilities in the Payroll Portfolio organization wide, making sure growth and quality targets are achieved
   3. Monitor performance of the Payroll portfolio making sure key risks are mitigated
   4. Drive personal sales activities targeting potential customers (Districts, municipalities, schools, ministries, government departments and entities, etc.)
   5. To conduct visits to existing and potential customers/employers in order to understand customer expectations, complaints and areas of improvement at the branch.
   6. To ensure that all Payroll lending staff have a clear understanding, acceptance and are able to communicate the group loans policies and procedures
   7. Ensure that all Payroll sales executives have a clear knowledge and understanding of the Payroll products and services
   8. Responsible for the performance management of the payroll sales executives through working directly with the Branch Managers/Supervisors to make sure individual performance targets of sales executives are met and remedial steps taken if performance targets are not met.

2. Business Development
   1. Responsible for the development of Payroll products that will contribute to the achievement of the overall growth of the portfolio

3. Training and Staff Development
   1. Develop Training materials for Payroll lending at the branch.
   2. Facilitate training of staff on Payroll lending credit

4. Planning reporting and other duties
   1. Provide daily, weekly and monthly reports to the Payroll loans Manager on the performance of the product and key issues that require the attention of management
   2. Develop annual growth strategies and expansion plans based on the market potential and the banks overall strategic plan.
   3. Participate in the development of annual budgets for the product

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in any field.
• Relevant professional qualifications in microfinance, banking, finance or marketing provide added advantage.
• Minimum of One (01) Year hands on experience in Payroll lending, microfinance, banking.
• Proficiency in use of MS Office applications.
• Knowledge on HCM / PCA coding process is a MUST.
• Relevant sales experience.
• Expertise in MIS platforms

Personal skills and abilities

• Strong Payroll sales skills to prospect and close business deals.
• Relationship Management skills to effectively perform Relationship Management activities/tasks in a manner that consistently achieves high quality Payroll standards or benchmarks.
• Interpersonal skills to develop and maintain Payroll business networks and to effectively communicate with other Payroll stakeholders who impact performance.
• Strategic awareness to contribute to the strategy of growing the Payroll assets (loans) and liabilities’ (deposits) position of the bank.
• Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes, procedures and guidelines to consistently achieve required Payroll compliance standards or benchmarks.
• Self-empowerment to enable development of open communication, teamwork and trust that are needed to support performance and customer-service oriented culture in Payroll.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.

Opportunity Bank is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of disability, gender, marital status, religion and ethnicity.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents,

together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Tuesday 18^th March 2025.

11^th March, 2025

JOB ADVERT

We are looking for creative, agile and result driven individuals to fill the position of Recovery Officer.

Reports to:                                       Branch Manager

Number of Vacancies:                    Fourteen (14)

Duty Station:                                   Across Opportunity Bank Branches.

Job purpose:

Recovery of non-performing loan, Pick learnings from the previous mistakes and recovery of written-off loans in the portfolio as per the Banks recovery guidelines.

Key Result Areas:

Credit Quality:

1. a) In collaboration with the Assistant Managers Relationship, Branch Managers and the Collections supervisors, obtain a list of non-performing loans and closely follow them up for collections
2. b) Clearly document all the collections efforts undertaken for each of the cases
3. c) Follow up the written off loans and document efforts made in recovering the loans
4. d) Monitor the loan repayment accounts of written off loans and ensure collections of any amounts thereon.
5. e) Work closely with auctioneers/ debt collectors to follow up on their progress on cases allocated to them for recovery.
6. f) Develop a list of lessons learnt during recovery for strategic guidance on our lending business.
7. g) Make weekly and monthly reports to the Collections Supervisor on progress of collections efforts.
8. h) Ensure that the recovery processes are adhered to avoid putting the bank at a risk of legal battles
9. i) Ensure all recovered funds are directly deposited on the customer account and by all means avoid receiving customer funds on personal Mobile phones or accounts.
10. j) Effective communication to the branch managers, supervisors & collection unit with respect and timely is expected during your time with the bank.

Risk Management and Compliance:

1. Identify risk factors and establish frameworks to mitigate risk in the collection department making sure there is a faster mechanism in place to enable quick and early detection and escalation of issues when they arise.
2. Ensure compliance to Credit policies and procedures, BOU regulations, budget parameters, procedures and the risk management framework operational within the Bank.
3. Responsible for audit, risk and BOU findings /reports, and helping resolve issues raised as well as ensuring no repeat findings.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree/diploma in any recognized institution
• More than six months experience in credit operations.
• Knowledge of debt collection regulations

Personal skills and abilities

• Strong Communication skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Good analytical skills
• Ability to manage emotions
• Very good customer service skills
• Good Listening skills
• Good at Time Management
• Ability to work under minimal supervision
• Attention to detail

Opportunity Bank is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of disability, gender, marital status, religion and ethnicity.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents,

together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Tuesday 18^th March 2025.

Reports to: Head of Refugee Finance

Duty Station: Kampala

About Opportunity International

Opportunity International is working to end global poverty by providing a hand up, not a handout. We believe that enabling individuals to create dignified and sustainable work is the foundation for transforming their lives, their children’s futures and their communities.

We support local partner organisations that provide innovative financial solutions to empower people, create jobs and build vibrant communities. We do this through innovative partnerships to provide complementary services to clients. Our products, services and training enable clients to develop businesses, to save and to insure against an uncertain future.

Today, Opportunity International serves more than 10 million families in over 30 countries around the world.

Opportunity Bank in collaboration with Opportunity International now seek to recruit a creative, agile and result driven individual to fill the position of Programme Manager.

JOB DESCRIPTION

1. Project Management

 Create templates for reporting and managing projects. Accountable for quarterly updates to
internal and external collaborators
 Make sure activities are being done on time, in line with project objectives and budget, where
necessary work with Country Lead to revise and reallocate budgets and timelines

 Create indicator protocols
 Main point of donor contact. Compile and submit quarterly narrative and financial reports to
the donor.
 Create and manage partner MoUs; ToRs for external evaluators and work on the M&E
plans and reporting /dissemination of results
 Donor maintenance – includes compliance, safeguarding, branding, impact management
Finance:
 Financial reporting and budgeting, to reconcile finances across Opportunity International
network; code income and expenditure, monitoring spending per project.
 Track funding flows to partners in line with project deliverables
 Monitor expenditure and costs against milestones

2. Business Development
 Part of design team for new proposals and projects ensuring new projects are designed is in
line with Opportunity International best practices, lessons learned and objectives.
 Work closely with international partners and team members to develop new, high quality,
fundable programmes at a country, regional and sector level.
 Support the preparation and submission of funding applications including written
applications, log frames, budgets, and monitoring and evaluation plans.
 Manage budgets in proposal design to ensure they are in line with the overall Programme
Budget and Opportunity International Impact measurement

3. Programme Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Agenda, Impact and Dissemination
 Develop and review documents or reports that capture learnings; integrate learnings into
program activities. Document best practice: lessons learned and evidence base
 Present Quarterly impact /dashboards as part of the of SM calls
 Be part of the dissemination of the programme wide impact
 Field visits for partner review and feedback.

4. External Networking
 Represent Opportunity International to donors and participate in stakeholder and Working
Group meetings
 Increase the profile of Opportunity International UK and lever the experience of our partners
by attending fora and other development and industry seminars.
 Represent Opportunity International UK at local in-country donor offices, facilitating visits
to local partners with the purpose of securing technical or financial support.
 Pro-actively share your learning and knowledge of local partners and their work with staff
and Trustees in the UK, to increase their exposure and facilitate further funding from
different audiences.

5. Team Collaboration
The Programme manager will work closely with the M&E Associates and Refugee Country Lead

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration or a related field.
• Five (05) years plus experience in international project management and experience of coordinating large grants.
• Strong financial management skills and a proven track record in preparing and implementing pipeline analyses and quarterly spending targets (the post-holder will be expected to manage large budgets, ensuring invoices are submitted on time and monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realized milestones).
• Successfully managing complex relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including providing management and advice from a distance.

Personal skills and abilities

• Excellent written communications, including report writing, in English.
• Superior interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Outstanding computer skills, including word processing, excel, mail, and internet.
• Commitment to and understanding of Opportunity International’s mission, vision, and values.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents, together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Wednesday 5 March 2025.

Please include your current salary in your application.

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Reports to: Head Refugee Finance

Duty Station: Kampala

About Opportunity International

Opportunity International is working to end global poverty by providing a hand up, not a handout. We believe that enabling individuals to create dignified and sustainable work is the foundation for transforming their lives, their children’s futures and their communities.

We support local partner organisations that provide innovative financial solutions to empower people, create jobs and build vibrant communities. We do this through innovative partnerships to provide complementary services to clients. Our products, services and training enable clients to develop businesses, to save and to insure against an uncertain future.

Today, Opportunity International serves more than 10 million families in over 30 countries around the world.

Opportunity Bank in collaboration with Opportunity International now seek to recruit a creative, agile and result driven individual to fill the position of Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist.

Job purpose:

The M&E Specialist will monitor Re-Fin activities against the program’s theory of change to
improve the livelihoods of refugee and host communities through financial services, skills
development and market linkages. They will run standard survey tools, ensure data quality
control, and conduct project evaluations and data analysis.

Key Result Areas:

1. Monitoring and evaluation strategy implementation
 Develop and oversee the implementation of the Re-Fin program ME&L strategy in
Uganda, across multiple donor projects.

 Analyze data collected by Opportunity Community Support Agents (CSAs) and conduct
baseline and annual surveys for new cohorts of CSAs.
 Execute the ME&L work plan promptly, refining tool protocols and reporting against
progress on activities and timelines.
 Analyze data output from CSAs, external evaluators and project partners, and generate
key insights for program reporting, operations and implementation of adaptive
management strategies.  
 Liaise with Re-Fin external learning partners contracted for specific third-party studies. 

2. Data collection and presentation
 Work with Opportunity Ag Finance (Comcare) data management platform to develop and
implement data collection tools to capture Re-Fin data needed to execute ME&L strategy.
 Incorporate existing data into Comcare platform.
 Build capacity of the local team in the use of M&E tools.
 Train and support CSAs in data collection and survey protocol when utilizing CSAs for
research or studies.
 Conduct quality assurance on all data collected, ensuring it meets the criteria of
timeliness, accuracy, validity, reliability, integrity, and completeness in coordination with
the data management team.
 Use data to create effective reports, visuals and dashboards to show program impact.

3. Project activities
 Provide technical support, including developing logframe, identifying key indicators, and
creating M&E plans for specific projects or grants awarded in Uganda.
 Organize and facilitate progress review meetings with program teams to assess the status
of program activities, identify challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
 Develop and review documents or reports that capture learnings; integrate learnings into
program activities. Document best practice: lessons learned and evidence base
 Present Quarterly impact /dashboards as part of the of SM calls
 Be part of the dissemination of the Programme wide impact
 Design surveys, lead focus group discussions, key informant interviews, or other
monitoring tools specific to projects in Uganda.
 Draft reports, client stories, or other outputs around learnings on projects for donor
reporting for wider dissemination.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents, together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Wednesday 5 March 2025.

Please include your current salary in your application.

CLICK TO SUMBIT YOUR APPLICATION