Jobs in Nairobi, Kenya

Senior Associate - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator Acumen East Or West Africa

Acumen

Acumen is seeking a detail-oriented and organised Senior Associate with at least 5 years of work experience to provide Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) coordination and administrative support for a transformative business and economic empowerment programme across Africa, with a strong focus on young women, leadership, and organisational growth and development. This role will be based out of Acumen's office in Nairobi or Lagos, with an expectation of working from the office 3 days a week. Remote from other geographies is not an option. About Acumen Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org. About the role As the Senior Associate: MEL Green Rise Africa, you will support the Impact Manager in the day-to-day coordination and administration of MEL activities across the programme.

Senior Associate - Reporting, Data and Analytics Acumen East Or West Africa

Acumen

Acumen is seeking a detail-oriented and organised Senior Associate with at least 5 years of work experience in MEL data systems in an international development context, strong technical skills across data management and visualisation platforms, and a growing interest in AI-powered solutions for a transformative programme across Africa. This role will be based out of Acumen's office in Nairobi or Lagos. Reporting to the Impact Manager: Data, Systems and Reporting, the Senior Associate will play a hands-on role in implementing and maintaining the technology solutions that underpin the programme and the MEL framework.

Media Relations Associate (Remote)

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. We are one of Time100's Most Influential Companies of 2026. Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth.

Recruitment Intern

One Acre Fund

About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. About the Young Professionals Program One Acre Fund's Young Professionals Program offers high-performing African graduates meaningful internships and training opportunities at a high-performing, mission-driven organization. Our internships are paid and all interns can expect to receive substantive work assignments working on high-impact projects that support One Acre Fund's operations. When joining, interns will participate in an onboarding program and receive training on how to design and execute projects. Over the period of your internship, you will get the opportunity to work with like-minded individuals and receive learning opportunities to build strong foundations for your future career. About the Role The Global Recruitment Intern will be a member of our Global Recruitment Team. You will support the Operations sub-team. You will report to the Recruitment Senior Coordinator, and you will also collaboratively work with others on the global team.

Associate

Systemiq

Company Description: Systemiq is the system change company, working to accelerate the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive and more inclusive economy. As a certified B Corp, we partner with business, finance, policymakers and civil society to transform five interconnected systems: energy, nature and food, materials and circularity, sustainable finance, and urban transformation. We bring together strategy, policy, market design and capital mobilisation to deliver tangible results in the real economy. Founded in 2016, Systemiq has grown to a global team of more than 300 people across Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, united by a singular focus on sustainability. Location: Kenya (Nairobi preferred)Contract: 12-month FTC (very likely to extend / convert to permanent)Team / Platform: Sustainable Finance Reporting to: Sustainable Finance leadership About the role : Systemiq is looking for a Strategy Associate to join our growing Sustainable Finance practice in Kenya, focused on public and development finance. You will help governments and public finance institutions to strengthen financing strategies and mobilise capital for climate, nature and development priorities. This is a strategy advisory role: working within small, collaborative teams, you will support complex advisory engagements and multi-stakeholder initiatives spanning governments, IFIs/DFIs, bilateral donors and the private sector. You will contribute to workstreams that draw on expertise across Systemiq and external partners, and over time you will have opportunities to shape and lead your own workstreams within the sustainable finance space. This role blends macro-level strategic thinking with strong research and analytical skills, excellent stakeholder engagement and communication, and the ability to deliver high-quality outputs in fast-moving, stakeholder-heavy contexts. Strategy consulting experience is welcome but not essential. Help support or lead workstreams and deliver high-quality advisory support on public and development finance for climate and nature outcomes. Develop structured analysis and synthesize complex information into client-ready materials (strategy decks, technical notes, briefing packs). Drive development of sovereign financing strategies, including consideration of macroeconomic context, sovereign risk, debt sustainability and credit dynamics. Help design, shape, and assess financing approaches and instruments, including concessional and blended finance, sustainability-linked bonds/loans, debt-for-climate/nature swaps, and risk-sharing structures. Support stakeholder engagement across ministries, debt management offices, central banks, IFIs/DFIs, donors and private sector partners, including workshops and convenings. Contribute to proposal development, thought leadership and knowledge building within the team. Mindset, skills & experience

Global R&D Data Analyst (Fixed-Term)

One Acre Fund

About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. About the Role From R&D to sales to strategy to operations, the Global R&D Data Analyst has the unique opportunity to improve decision-making across all aspects of One Acre Fund’s program using many diverse data types, such as sales, yield, demographic and satellite data, to help us reach more farmers with greater impact. The Global R&D Data Analyst will help us reach over one million farmers by executing analyses for strategic decision-making on repayment, expansion, and other business functions, and work directly with program leaders to interpret results and make data-driven decisions. The Global R&D Data Analyst will play an integral role in shaping One Acre Fund’s data strategy, including dreaming up and executing new ways to use our data to improve our program. Additionally, One Acre Fund has a robust agronomic and socioeconomic research program spanning all countries of operation. This role will work closely with country R&D teams to ensure all trials are executed at the highest possible standards, provide follow-up analytical support and training to team members, and support with warehousing of our agronomic data to make our research outputs accessible to external collaborators, further increasing One Acre Fund’s smallholder farmer impact across the continent. To succeed in this role, you will need to be a strong communicator and have a solid analytical background with experience in experimental design. You will need to be comfortable interpreting ambiguous results generated with imperfect data and advising leaders on the relative risk associated with different decisions based on the results of your analysis. This is a deliberately hybrid role. Success requires the ability to operate effectively as: an experimental methodologist (trial design & causal inference), an applied data scientist (production analytics, geospatial methods, modelling), and a delivery-oriented project manager (prioritisation, documentation, coordination).

Senior Associate, Insights - Acumen Academy

Acumen

Acumen is seeking a highly motivated, thoughtful, and curious Senior Associate, Insights with atleast 5 years of experience to support the delivery of a rigorous learning agenda for a transformative business and economic empowerment program across Africa with a strong focus on young women, leadership and organizational growth and development. This role will focus on generating high quality insights to inform adaptive program delivery, with a strong emphasis on understanding enterprise growth, work quality, and women’s participation in the green economy.This role will be based out of Acumen’s office in Nairobi or Lagos, with an expectation of working from the office 3 days a week. About Acumen Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org. About the Role As the Senior Associate, Insights, you will support the execution of the program’s learning agenda, working across program teams and partners to generate actional insights that inform program delivery and strategy. This role sits within the Insights function, focusing on the ‘why’ and ‘so what’ behind program results. You will lead qualitative and mixed-methods data collection and analyze findings. You will also synthesize findings into clear insights and contribute to learning outputs that shape adaptive management and thought leadership. You will report to the Program Insights Lead and program teams across multiple workstreams. The role requires strong execution, structured thinking, and the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights.

Impact Manager - Reporting, Data and Analytics (Acumen East or West Africa)

Acumen

Acumen is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Impact Manager with at least 8 years of work experience to provide Reporting, Data and Analytics leadership at a regional level for a transformative business and economic empowerment programme across Africa with a strong focus on young women. This role will be based out of Acumen office in Nairobi or Lagos with an expectation of working from office 3 days a week. Remote from other geographies is not an option. About Acumen Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org. About the role As the Impact Manager: Reporting, Data and Analytics you will be responsible for designing and implementing the technology solution for the programmatic MEL framework. That is potentially adapting existing solutions like Salesforce and Google sheets, or creating/identifying new technology solutions, to ensure that the MEL framework has a functioning and efficient technology platform, routine reporting on key data points. We expect the role to focus on continual identification of system and data management and reporting improvements. We expect candidates to be highly technically efficient with data and software solutions with growing skills in the use of AI. You will work closely with the Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and learning. The Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning will focus on MEL framework design and implementation and adaptive learning. Additionally, you will work closely with other Impact & Insight staff based in the UK and in East and West Africa. The postholder is expected to travel occasionally within the region.

Partner Quality Specialist

Thunes

About Thunes Thunes is the Smart Superhighway for money movement around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies. Thunes’ Network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, via more than 350 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more. Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks. Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house Smart Treasury Management Platform and Fortress Compliance Infrastructure, ensuring Members of the Network receive unrivalled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments globally. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 12 locations, including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/ Context of the Role Thunes has experienced rapid global growth over the past few years, onboarding customers across multiple markets and payout corridors. While acquiring new customers remains critical, retaining and supporting existing customers—especially as transaction volumes scale—is equally essential. The Partner Quality Specialist plays a key role in protecting customer trust and revenue by strengthening the quality and reliability of our payout ecosystem. Sitting within the QCC team, this role focuses on identifying where and why issues occur, driving fast resolution, and implementing sustainable operational and partner improvements. Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking, a sense of urgency, and close collaboration across internal teams and external partners to continuously improve the end-to-end customer experience.

Head of Marketing

M-KOPA

We're looking for a Head of Marketing to lead the evolution of our brand from a device-financing company into a consumer fintech platform - someone who knows how to build compelling propositions around services, not just physical products, and deliver that transition across five markets. The Impact Your marketing leadership will directly shape how 7 million + customers across Africa discover, choose, and stay with M-KOPA. We've already disbursed over $2 billion in credit to Every Day Earners who were invisible to conventional financial services. It's your chance to lead the marketing strategy for a business that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍 The Opportunity 🎯 Mission-driven marketing: You'll own the Marketing strategy for a platform that's rewriting the rules of financial inclusion - turning smartphones into pathways to credit, insurance, and economic progress for people who've never had access before. 🏆 Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing for four consecutive years (2022–2025). 🚀 Real scale challenges: Five markets. Multiple product categories. One coherent brand. You'll be building the marketing architecture to make it all work - from group brand strategy down to in-market execution. 🌱 Environmental impact: We're embedding sustainability into how we grow - having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ through solar, refurbished phones, and e-mobility.

Senior CRM Manager - Lifecycle & Retention

M-KOPA

Join our expanding Product Growth team! We're actively recruiting another Senior CRM Manager from MVNO, super-app, mobile gaming, or high-frequency subscription backgrounds as we continue to scale our growing FinTech division at M-KOPA. You'll build and scale the growth systems that drive retention, upsell, and customer lifetime value for millions across Africa. The Impact 💚 You'll design the retention and up-sell infrastructure that drives measurable customer lifetime value and revenue growth whilst creating financial inclusion for Africa's traditionally excluded. We've already helped over 7 million customers access over $2 billion in credit. It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍 The Opportunity 🏗️ Build CRM from the ground up: Design and scale lifecycle programmes across 5 African markets (Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa) - working with proprietary data from millions of customers and a unique distribution model (30,000+ field agents + 300 telesales) 💰 Own retention and upsell outcomes: Your success is measured in LTV growth, retention rates, and upsell revenue - not just email metrics 🚀 Go hands-on daily: Build automated journeys, design experiments, analyse results, and scale what works - this isn't a strategy-only role 🏆 Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing for 4 consecutive years (2022-2025)

Senior Analyst - Credit Risk & Eligibility

M-KOPA

Join our Credit Eligibility team at M-KOPA We're growing our Credit Eligibility team and looking for a Senior Analyst to help shape M-KOPA's credit risk and eligibility decisions for millions of people across Africa. Your analysis will directly influence who gets a loan, on what terms, and how we manage risk at scale - work that sits at the intersection of financial inclusion and rigorous data science. The Impact Your analysis will determine who gets access to credit - and for most of our customers, that access is transformational. We've already unlocked more than $2 billion in credit to over 7 million customers across five African markets. 55% of our customers are accessing a financial product for the first time through M-KOPA. 86% report an improvement in their quality of life. Every model you refine, every eligibility criterion you improve, contributes to that. It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍 The Opportunity 🎯 Mission-driven analytics: Your daily work - building underwriting frameworks, refining loan pricing, monitoring credit performance - directly determines who gets access to affordable credit across Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. 🏆 Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing for four consecutive years (2022–2025). 🚀 Scale challenges: We process over 2 million payments daily and add 200,000 new customers every month. You'll be working with repayment data at a scale very few analysts ever encounter. 🌱 Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided over 2.1 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions - and growing sustainably is core to how we operate.

Marketing Officer - eMobility

M-KOPA

We are looking for a Marketing Officer to bring the M-KOPA Mobility brand to life across digital and on-ground channels as we scale our Mobility division across Kenya. ''This role offers the opportunity to run campaigns end-to-end, create content that connects with real people, and contribute directly to the growth of one of Africa's most exciting mobility businesses. If you're a creative self-starter who is fluent in digital, loves a good campaign, and wants your work to have genuine impact, this role is for you.''

Senior Compliance Associate

Apollo Agriculture

About the Role:   As Senior Compliance Associate, AML & Regulatory Compliance, you will support Apollo’s day-to-day compliance program, with a focus on AML/CFT, regulatory compliance, policy administration, monitoring, and training. You will work closely with finance, credit, product, operations , people, and external advisors (inc. legal counsel)  to help keep key compliance obligations on track and support Apollo’s responsibilities. This is a hands-on role for someone with 3–5 years of experience who is practical, organized, detail-oriented, and willing to roll up their sleeves.

Senior Data Scientist - Credit Eligibility

M-KOPA

Join our Credit & Underwriting team! We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist who loves building machine learning models and solving ambiguous data problems. This is a fully remote data science role within a growing mission-driven fintech. You'll own the models that shape loan eligibility and pricing across 5 African markets. This is a small team with big responsibility, where your work directly shapes lending strategy for millions of customers. The Impact Your models will directly shape how millions of underserved customers access credit for the first time. We've already helped over 7 million customers access over $2 billion in credit, and we process over 1.5 million payments daily. It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍 🎯 Mission-driven data science: Build credit scoring and pricing models that expand financial access for customers traditionally excluded from formal lending 🏆 Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing for 4 consecutive years (2022–2025) 🚀 Scale challenges: Work with rich repayment datasets across 5 African markets, developing ML models that balance growth with credit risk at scale 🌱 Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having displaced over 2.1 million tonnes of emissions

Customer Operations Officer - eMobility

M-KOPA

We are looking for a Customer Operations Officer to join our Mobility team and ensure our customers progress seamlessly through the driving licensing journey. ''This role offers the opportunity to sit at the heart of M-KOPA's Mobility operations — coordinating between driving school partners, the retail team, and regulatory bodies like NTSA to keep the licensing process moving efficiently. If you're a detail-oriented operations professional who thrives on follow-through and stakeholder communication, this role is for you.''

Senior Manager, Partnerships, Product Innovation & Consulting

Pula

At Pula, we are building the systems that enable farmers worldwide to access insurance, using technology to insure this previously uninsured worldwide. We work in over 10 countries across Africa and Asia, and by 2022, have facilitated crop insurance cover to over 20 million farmers, 40% of which are women, across Kenya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Zambia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Malawi. We are a for profit company, and have raised over $45 million from leading venture and institutional investors as well as developed philanthropic relationships with private foundations and bilateral donors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and German Insure Resilience Solutions Fund that have accelerated investments in our target markets. Pula is proudly fast paced, constantly learning from the challenges we face and overcome. We are proudly culturally diverse but united in our ambition of continuous high-performance. By challenging ourselves we believe that we can overcome the hard problems we love solving.

Recruitment Projects and Operations Associate

One Acre Fund

Director, Account Executive

Visa

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.Progress starts with you.

Analyst,VCA

Visa

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.Progress starts with you.