Manager Talent Management & Development

ABOUT INKOMOKO 

Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in order to improve livelihoods, create jobs, and help communities thrive.

In 2025, Inkomoko was listed by the Financial Times as the 8th fastest-growing company in Africa, supporting entrepreneurs across East and Central Africa to grow thriving businesses and build inclusive, resilient economies.

Founded in 2012, Inkomoko is a non-profit that has worked with more than 100,000 entrepreneurs, including thousands of refugee businesses. Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change to drive impact for our clients. We are the largest investor to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa.

Inkomoko has 800+ staff in 50 offices across Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Through Inkomoko’s 2030 strategic plan, we are adding 3 additional countries to positively impact 7M people, by serving more than 550,000 entrepreneurs and growing our $30M loan fund.
INKOMOKO VALUES

All staff at Inkomoko are connected to a shared set of organizational values:

• Purpose: be solutions-oriented, produce high-quality work, and be a global leader.
• Achievement: push yourself to reach beyond what you previously thought possible. 
• Improvement: be humble, engage in continuous growth through open & accurate feedback
• Bravery: willing to take risks, create a safe space for others, be compassionate, and inclusive.
• We Eat Goat: we celebrate success and support each other in hard times. We do this work together in the spirit of turikumwe, tuko pamoja, abren nen, Kula na sawa, On est ensemble.

Inkomoko is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.  Refugees, women, and persons who reflect the diverse communities we serve are strongly encouraged to apply.  

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Manager, Talent Management & Development will support the Head of Talent Management & Development in translating Inkomoko's talent strategy into effective, scalable programmes and practices.

The role leads the implementation of talent management, succession, leadership development, learning, career development, and organizational capability initiatives, working closely with Country People & Culture teams and business leaders to ensure consistent and impactful delivery across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Talent & Succession

• Coordinate talent reviews, calibration, and succession processes across the organization.
• Support identification and development of successors for leadership and critical roles.
• Coordinate high-potential, talent acceleration, leadership pipeline, and internal mobility initiatives.
• Track succession readiness, talent movement, bench strength, and key talent risks.
• Prepare talent insights and recommendations for leadership discussions.
• Leadership & Capability Development
• Coordinate leadership development programmes, academies, and future leader pathways.
• Develop people manager capability through coaching, mentoring, peer learning, and targeted development programmes.
• Partner with leaders to identify and address leadership and capability priorities.
• Evaluate development initiatives and use feedback and data to improve effectiveness.

Learning & Career Development

• Coordinate learning and development initiatives aligned with business priorities.
• Develop learning plans, curricula, and functional and technical capability programmes.
• Support career pathways, development journeys, and professional growth tools.
• Promote continuous learning, curiosity, innovation, and self-development in line with Inkomoko's value of Improvement.
• Monitor learning outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement.

Competency & Organizational Capability

• Support the development and application of Inkomoko's competency framework.
• Integrate competencies into performance, learning, succession, and career development processes.
• Support capability assessments and identify current and future capability gaps.
• Coordinate interventions to address priority capability needs.

Talent Practice & Insights

• Develop and maintain talent tools, playbooks, guidelines, and resources.
• Support consistent implementation of talent practices across countries and build capability within Country People & Culture teams.
• Maintain talent dashboards and monitor key metrics across succession, learning, mobility, and capability.
• Analyse talent data and provide insights and recommendations to inform decisions.

Stakeholder & Programme Management

• Partner with Country People & Culture teams, managers, and business leaders to deliver talent initiatives.
• Manage assigned talent and development programmes from design through implementation and evaluation.
• Facilitate talent discussions, workshops, and development sessions as required.
• Coordinate external partners and vendors supporting talent initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve talent and development practices.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Organizational Development, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Talent Management, Learning & Development, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing talent and development programmes.
• Experience in talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, learning, career development, or competency management.
• Experience working across multiple countries or diverse organizational environments is preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Experience using talent data and analytics to inform people's decisions.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

This role is inside a high-growth, mission-driven social enterprise. By joining, you’ll access:

• Competitive salary, and potential annual performance-based bonus
• Incredible company culture, with opportunities for learning and growth
• Diverse colleagues across the region, and policies that demonstrate commitment to equity and inclusion 
• Ability to make a significant social impact to your community
• Health insurance for self and family
• Staff savings and provident fund, negotiated bank rates for long-term employees
• Generous annual leave, parental leave, and sabbatical options. 

TO APPLY

If you’re excited about this role, please submit your CV, and tell us why you are the right fit for this opportunity. 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday 28th August 2026

Inkomoko is committed to justice, diversity, equity and inclusion.  As we seek to reflect the communities we serve, refugees and women are strongly encouraged to apply. As a company we have policies that ensure fair treatment in the application process. 

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Employment is conditional upon successful background checks and other verification as needed.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and background screening checks. Inkomoko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, fraud, or abuse. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.