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.

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.

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.