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# Influencer Marketing Intern at M-KOPA

- **Company:** [M-KOPA](https://feeny.ai/companies/m-kopa)
- **Location:** Nairobi, Kenya
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/m-kopa/0bf0753f-fd0f-4112-8b26-04c33e0ad8af

## Job description

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](http://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.

## About M-KOPA

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: M-KOPA is a leading African fintech platform that provides affordable financial and digital products to cash-based earners, enabling them to finance everyday essentials through daily micropayments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Nairobi, Kenya (Global HQ with additional offices in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Jesse Moore (CEO & Co-Founder) and Nick Hughes

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Fintech / Financial Services
- **Target Customers**: B2C focused on "Every Day Earners" — underserved, cash-based entrepreneurs and individuals across Sub-Saharan Africa who lack formal collateral, credit history, or a monthly salary.
- **Mission/Purpose**: "To make financing for everyday essentials accessible to everyone." Their core mission is to "finance progress" for millions of unbanked and underbanked people.

## Products & Services
- **Smartphone Financing**: The core entry product. Customers pay a small deposit (e.g., ~$35) followed by daily micro-instalments (~$0.50/day) via mobile money (like M-Pesa) to own a smartphone. This is the primary gateway to the digital economy.
- **Digital Loans**: After building a repayment credit history, customers can access small, flexible digital loans on an instalment basis.
- **Hospital Coverage (Insurance)**: Affordable health insurance packages offered via the same daily micropayment model.
- **Device Protection**: Insurance for the financed smartphone.
- **Affordable Data Bundles**: Digital subscriptions and data packages available on a similar instalment basis.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. However, M-KOPA has raised substantial growth capital from top-tier global investors.
- **Key Metric**: Over **$1.5 billion in cumulative credit deployed** to more than **5 million customers** across Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. [m-kopa.com](https://www.m-kopa.com/about)
- **Notable Investors**: Includes **Generation Investment Management** (co-founded by Al Gore), **Sumitomo Corporation**, and other leading impact and growth investors. Board members often come from these firms. [m-kopa.com](https://www.m-kopa.com/about)
- **Growth Signals**: M-KOPA now employs over **3,000 staff members** and has a direct sales force of over **30,000 agents**. The company operates one of the largest smartphone assembly factories in the region, producing over 1 million phones locally. [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Kopa)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Tech & Data Stack**: Processes over **1 million payments daily**, using AI-driven analytics to create credit records for individuals with no formal financial history. This is a deep, defensible data moat.
- **Asset-Light Distribution**: A massive, managed direct sales force of 30,000 agents provides a powerful on-the-ground distribution network that is hard to replicate.
- **Customer-Centric Lending**: Offers "Inclusive, Fair, and Flexible" terms. No collateral or proof of income required. Customers can return a product, get their deposit back, and be released from obligations if they cannot pay. This builds immense trust. [m-kopa.com](https://www.m-kopa.com/about)
- **Vertical Integration**: From smartphone assembly to fintech lending to digital services, M-KOPA controls the entire value chain, creating a sticky ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening Financial Services**: Expanding beyond smartphone financing into digital loans, insurance, and health coverage to become a comprehensive financial partner.
- **Geographic Expansion**: Already in 5 African countries (Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa) with potential for further market entry.
- **Leveraging AI for Credit Scoring**: Constantly improving their proprietary data models to offer more products and better manage risk for a traditionally "unscoreable" population.
- **M-KOPA Labs**: A research arm that deploys grants to test new technologies and extensions of their platform. [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Kopa)

## Why Work Here
- **Purpose-Driven Mission**: The work directly impacts financial inclusion and poverty alleviation for millions across Africa. A deeply motivating "why."
- **Rapid Growth & Scale**: Operating in a high-growth environment with a team of 3,000+, providing significant opportunities for career advancement and tackling complex, real-world problems.
- **Global, Pan-African Team**: A diverse team with a "proudly Pan-African footprint" and offices in London, offering a unique cultural experience.
- **Flexible Work**: Offers hybrid and remote working options that suit the demands of the role. [m-kopa.com](https://www.m-kopa.com/careers)
- **Strong Benefits Package**: Includes comprehensive health plans, learning & development resources, and recognition & rewards. They emphasize a culture of "Progress, Excellence, and Humility." [m-kopa.com](https://www.m-kopa.com/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Known for building a world-class tech stack from scratch for a unique market.

## Sources
1. [m-kopa.com/about](https://www.m-kopa.com/about)
2. [m-kopa.com/careers](https://www.m-kopa.com/careers)
3. [wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Kopa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Kopa)
4. [uk.linkedin.com/company/m-kopa](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/m-kopa)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/m-kopa](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/m-kopa)

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