Business Associate - Bambasi

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 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 Values

All staff at Inkomoko are connected to a shared set of organizational values:

• Purpose: be solutions-oriented, produce high-quality work, and be a global leader.
• Achievement: push yourself to reach beyond what you previously thought possible.
• Improvement: be humble, engage in continuous growth through open & accurate feedback
• Bravery: willing to take risks, create a safe space for others, be compassionate, and inclusive.
• We Eat Goat: we celebrate success and support each other in hard times. We do this work together in the spirit of turikumwe, tuko pamoja, abren nen, Kula na sawa, On est ensemble.

Inkomoko is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Refugees, women, and persons who reflect the diverse communities we serve are strongly encouraged to apply.

About the Opportunity & Responsibilities

Inkomoko in Ethiopia seeks highly talented, organized, and motivated Refugee staff to coordinate and work directly with entrepreneur clients in Bambasi.

The position holder will be based in Bambasi and will report directly to the Business Development Advisor with core responsibilities as follows:

Clients sourcing (25%)

• Select, identify, map their location and Recruit potential clients by aligning the company goals
• Ability to communicate and to make an alignment with different partners, business owners to recruit potential clients

Business Consulting, training & Client Relationship Management (50% time)

• Intake process of program entrepreneurs and conducting monthly site visits to assess business needs and opportunities
• Generate cash flow statements and profitability analyses
• Provide informed, strategic, and realistic advice to help clients meet their objectives, or shift their objectives toward better sustainability/profitability
• Ongoing one on one visits to provide real-time advising to solve business changes and grow businesses
• Connect clients to other Inkomoko services, including training and access to finance
• Keep up-to-date the clients’ business information in an accurate manner in the system
• Serve as the lead through the enrolment process program entrepreneurs
• Serve as the financial literacy advisor to program entrepreneurs

Market linkage and investment engagement (10%)

• Train clients on market linkage and investment readiness
• Training clients and make clients ready to prepare investment plan
• Capacitate clients to fulfill potential criteria for investment and market linkage process

MEL and General collaboration and communication (10%)

• Develop a good relationship with all partners in the camp
• Provide weekly and monthly reports on time
• Collect quality data, provide quality service
• Represent Inkomoko in Camp and stakeholder meetings
• Work closely with the Business Development Advisor to organize activities such as training, tracking training attendance and consultation data, logistics and delivery, refresher training, one-on-one consulting, focus group consulting, etc…
• Ensure high turn-up of program participants during training delivery sessions
• Assist Inkomoko staff with all in-camp communications
• Make sure activities at the Camp are done in a timely manner
• Assist the M&E team with surveys and data collection at the camp
• Provide administrative support as needed
• Coordinate all the logistics and organization of Inkomoko activities in camp and host community

Communication and (5% time)

• Make a follow-up to ensure all messages are sent to Camp refugees and confirm messages have been received
• Communicate program details to refugee participants, as requested by Inkomoko
• Communicate about any challenge faced by participants during program implementation
• Perform any other duties as assigned.