Vacancy	Details
Vacancy Number	15/2025
Title	Product & Policy Officer
Description	Principal Responsibilities 1. Contributes to continued development and relevance of the banks’ lending polices/procedures.  Collects, collates, analyses and interprets data to align existing and the development of new Bank products and service to meet the changing business environment and customer needs.  Prepares business sectors/sectors reviews, research and policy papers in a timely and accurate manner with appropriate policy recommendations. 2. Assist Manager Product & Policy in preparing the Bank’s Strategic Plan.  Develop the Strategic Plan formulation activity/task list including the formation of a Strategic Planning sub-committee, gather data including SWOT analysis of the Bank and assisting with organizing the logistics of the Strategic Plan retreat.  Analyse the information with Manager Product & Policy to identify and propose strategies, action plan and measures and formulate Strategic Plan document.  Undertake research, where and when necessary, on issues of strategic importance and relevance to the implementation of the Bank’s Strategic Plan. 3. Assist preparation of quality quarterly performance appraisal reports against Strategic Plan and Rolling Plan target for each Center.  Gathers, collates and prepares performance results from profit and service centers and matches these against the Strategic Plan and Rolling Plan Targets.  Based on the above findings reports to Manager/Management/Board on the performance of each center.  Reports to the Manager/Management/Board on those Centers not able to achieve their targets stating reasons why; and making recommendations on how these could be improved in future. 4. Prepares the Annual Rolling Plan targets of each Center.  Gathers, collates and provides inputs for preparation of Annual Rolling Plan Targets for each Centers (using the Strategic Plan Model).  Assist operational, financial and other strategies used towards achieving the targets of the Rolling Plan and the Strategic Plan for the Executive Committee and the Board by May each year.  Drafts the write-ups of the Rolling Plan text. 5. Contributes to the flow of Management Information to Senior Management.  Prepare an annual comprehensive Economic Overview for the Management and the Board i.e. Budget Assessment, RBF quarterly economic reviews, Bureau of Statistics data, National Development Plan frameworks, workshops include knowledge management.  Prepare occasional management information papers on subsidy impact analysis, liquidity and blacklistings. 6. Contributes to the Banks external presentations by preparing well-rescheduled and accurate in a timely manner for presentation locally and internationally.  Prepares timely and accurate cabinet/budget data for reports.  Supplies information requests for internal or external sources within the timeframe of the request. This involves defining the content, strategic focus matters, product and branding for marketing. 7. Conduct and liaise with respective business units on testing, drafting of head office circular and implementation of changes to the Bank System following process re-engineering and new products. Must ensure system changes are in compliance to System rules, FDB and RBF coding. 8. Attend to other activities as and when required which may include but not limited to:  Supporting the Division’s work in Governance and Results Based Monitoring.  Maintaining and organizing an electronic and paper record of monitoring reports.  Draft, editing and proof-reading letters, briefs, speeches, memoranda and other documents related to the Strategic Planning Section’s work.  Providing minute taking and summary record duties as required.  Perform other duties as may be required from time to time.
Qualification	Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Economics or Finance.
Experience	The incumbent shall have 5 or more years of experience in Research and Strategic Planning, preferably in a Banking environment.
Salary	$30,124
Term (Years)	0
Start Date	03/05/2025
End Date	16/05/2025