M-KOPA
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Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Listed for United Kingdom
Source: the job board's country tag. The advert itself does not name United Kingdom.
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 5 weeks ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Listed for United Kingdom
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Operations
The employer did not publish a salary, and we have too few comparable roles to estimate one.
What the advert says
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- Working hours
Drive distributed team effectiveness : optimise performance, engagement and team dynamics in a fast-paced, asynchronous, multi-country environment
- Where you can work from
Fully Remote role - Can be Based in the UK, Nigeria or specific locations across Europe
- Contract
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Experience asked for
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Pay
- Not mentioned in the advert
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United Kingdom. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "London, Madrid, Belfast, Birmingham, Lisbon, Dublin, Manchester, Remote"
- Job description states: "Based in the UK"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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Before you apply
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About the role
Join our growing People team! We're hiring a Lead People Partner to own the people agenda for our Technology organisation as M-KOPA scales the infrastructure behind financial inclusion for everyday earners across Africa.
The Impact 🌍
Your leadership will directly shape how we build, retain and grow the engineering talent powering our mission. We've now reached 10 million customers and unlocked $2+ billion in credit across five African markets. This role sits right at the centre of the machine that makes that growth possible.
The Opportunity
💚 Mission-driven HR : Partner directly with our CTO and their leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security — work that translates straight into digital and financial access for everyday earners
🏆 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 company for 5 consecutive years (2022–2026)
🚀 Scale challenges : Design the org structure for a globally distributed, senior engineering population spread across Africa, Europe and the UK — scaling and reshaping at the same time
🌱 Environmental impact : Work for a carbon-negative company that has displaced over 2 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions
What You'll Do
You'll act as trusted advisor to our engineering, data and platform leaders, aligning people strategy to roadmap execution and organisational evolution. You'll hold overall accountability for people partnering across the full Technology and Product organisation, with one Senior People Partner reporting to you covering Product and adjacent functions. Your own focus is Engineering: a globally distributed, senior population where genuine fluency in how engineering organisations are built, levelled and retained matters far more than adjacency to them.
Day to day, you'll:
Lead org design : workforce planning, levelling and team transformation in a function scaling and reshaping simultaneously
Own Engineering and Product end to end : full accountability for people partnering across both, with a Senior People Partner reporting to you
Lead and grow a partner : coach, develop and set direction for your direct report, building the partnering standard for the whole technology portfolio
Use people analytics to inform action : partner with Centres of Excellence to turn data into decisions on capability, attrition and cost
Drive distributed team effectiveness : optimise performance, engagement and team dynamics in a fast-paced, asynchronous, multi-country environment
Handle complex employee relations : own the senior and sensitive end of the ER caseload for your portfolio
Your Environment 💻
Reporting line : People Director, alongside a peer group of senior partners covering our operating markets
Client group : CTO and their leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security, plus accountability for Product via your direct report
Team : one Senior People Partner reporting to you
Population : globally distributed, senior engineering talent, majority based across Africa, Europe and the UK
Our Approach 🚀
We scale and reshape our engineering function at the same time, so org design here is a live, ongoing discipline, not a one-off project
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·Fully Remote role - Can be Based in the UK, Nigeria or specific locations across Europe
- ·Reports to the People Director
- ·Professional development and coaching partnerships
- ·Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
- ·Well-being support and career growth opportunities
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at M-KOPA, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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