Influencer Marketing Intern

Join our growing Marketing team! We're recruiting an Influencer Marketing Intern to help us pilot something new: bringing influencer management in-house for the first time, ahead of our October product launch

**6 Month Contract**

The Impact — Your work will directly shape how M-KOPA reaches new customers at one of the biggest moments in our calendar. We've already unlocked over $2 billion in credit for more than 10 million customers across Africa. It's your chance to help build a capability from scratch for a business that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍

The Opportunity

🎯 Mission-driven marketing : Your campaign work will help bring new products to Every Day Earners across our markets

🏆 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 5 consecutive years (2022–2026)

🚀 Real ownership, real scale : Manage a roster of around 30 nano influencers producing 2–3 videos each, right at the centre of our October launch

🌱 Purpose beyond the campaign : M-KOPA has avoided over 2. 1 million tonnes of CO₂ through solar, refurbished phones, and e-mobility since 2010

What You'll Do

At M-KOPA, you'll run influencer management end-to-end for our biggest launch of the year. You'll own relationships and content from identifying and onboarding creators through to reviewing final videos, working directly with the Marketing Team to build the playbook as you go. Join us in combining hands-on creative coordination with purpose-driven work that makes our next product launch possible across Africa.

Your Environment 💼

• Influencer management : Identifying, onboarding, and briefing approximately 30 nano influencers
• Content coordination : Managing timelines and deliverables for 2–3 videos per creator, on brief and on schedule
• Quality control : Reviewing submitted content for brand alignment, quality, and campaign messaging
• Social media support : Scheduling, posting, and monitoring campaign content across platforms
• Performance tracking : Flagging what's working and what needs adjusting during the campaign
• Record keeping : Maintaining influencer agreements, contact details, and content status for full team visibility

Our Approach 🚀

• We're building this in-house capability from scratch, so you'll help shape how we run influencer campaigns going forward
• We work in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment, this is a pilot, and we're figuring it out together
• We value clear, professional communication when briefing and coordinating with external creators
• We look for a genuine eye for content quality and brand fit
• We give real ownership over relationships and content from day one

What You Need

We're looking for someone with a genuine interest in social media, content, and influencer marketing, who follows trends before they're trends. You'll need strong organisational skills to juggle around 30 relationships and dozens of deliverables at once, comfortable working in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous setting.

Required Experience

• Genuine interest in social media, content, and influencer marketing
• Strong organisational skills, comfortable managing multiple relationships and deliverables simultaneously
• Clear, professional written communication for briefing and coordinating with external creators
• A keen eye for content quality and brand fit
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment
• Prior experience with social platforms, content creation, or influencer outreach is a plus, but not required

Location & Benefits

• Based in Nairobi, on-site/hybrid
• Immediate start
• Direct exposure to a major product launch, with real ownership from day one
• The chance to build an in-house capability that shapes how M-KOPA runs future campaigns
• Work alongside a supportive Marketing Team as part of a wider, mission-driven business

Our Mission 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.

Our Impact 💚

• Connected 📱 : 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected since 2020
• Prosperous 💰 : 70% of customers use their M-KOPA product for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents
• Green 🌱 : 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through solar since 2010, with over 127,700 circular economy products sold

Ready to help build an influencer marketing capability from the ground up while getting hands-on experience at the centre of a major launch? Apply Now!

Why M-KOPA?

At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.

Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa. com .

Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.

Important Notice

M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.

M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.

Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.

If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.