Graduate Trainee-Market Linkages

About the Opportunity & Responsibilities

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 has worked with more than 100,000 entrepreneurs, including thousands of refugee entrepreneurs. Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change. We are the largest investor to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa. Inkomoko has 750+ staff in 40 offices across Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Through Inkomoko's 2030 strategic plan, we are adding 3 additional countries to serve more than 550,000 entrepreneurs and growing our $30M loan fund to impact 7M lives. Inkomoko is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Refugees, women, and persons who reflect the diverse communities we serve are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Identify and link our clients with local business opportunities. This will involve meeting buyers of different kinds to understand their supply needs. The buyers may include local hotels and restaurants, bars, schools, small processing companies, among others.
• Build long-term business relationships with local micro and small buyers.
• Work with the Business Development and Investment teams to identify and create a list of clients with market linkages potential.
• Share and help our clients to apply for tender opportunities in local markets.
• Supports the development of digital technology solutions for business to business (B2B) & business to customer (B2C) linkage.
• Collaborates and participates in different platforms and enhances synergy between the market related objective in respective regions.
• Initiates and assists with special projects, such as trade fairs, promotional events, advertising, and product development support in close collaboration with BGS team and clients.

Requirements

• Manages Diverse Relationships - Relates well to a wide variety of personalities, values differences, and communicates effectively across diverse communication styles, cultures, and backgrounds.
• Takes initiatives to Deliver - Thinks several months in advance, prioritizes objectives, implements reliably, and quickly identifies what will help or hinder goal accomplishment.
• Fluent in Technology - Uses technology effectively to work efficiently and achieve desired outcomes.

Qualifications

• Highly energetic. We want someone who thrives from being on the field and talking to people.
• Sales-oriented: We are looking for people who will be able to secure contracts/deals for our clients.
• Relationship-building: we are looking for relationship builders. Someone who is no stranger to strangers.
• Opportunistic: Someone with an ability to spot and communicate opportunities quickly.
• Self-Starter: Someone who will need minimal training and will be ready to learn on the fly.
• Field-based: All graduate trainees will be based on the field, and ideally from locations where they are posted.
• Language proficiency: Basic or advanced level the local language capabilities is a big plus.
• Up to 1 year of work experience
• College degree in any field - marketing and sales preferred.

How 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.