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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 800+ staff in 50 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 AND RESPONSIBILITIES The Head of Procurement will lead the organization's procurement function across all countries of operation, transforming procurement into a strategic business partner that enables growth while ensuring compliance, value for money, and operational excellence. This role is responsible for developing procurement strategies, strengthening governance, improving supplier performance, reducing purchasing cycle times, and building procurement capability across a rapidly expanding regional organization.  The Head of Procurement also has the unique opportunity to build the procurement function into a catalyst for economic growth in the communities in which we serve through embedding our social procurement goals into our procurement and sourcing strategies. .  The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with strong operational execution and be passionate about creating systems that help our procurement and operations teams think strategically while maintaining strong internal controls.  Specifically, the Head of Procurement will be responsible for:  Procurement Strategy & Leadership Develop and execute Inkomoko's regional procurement strategy across all countries of operation.  Lead the evolution of procurement from a transactional function to a strategic business partner for the organization. Create procurement roadmaps that support country leadership as they expand into new countries and new locations  Working closely with operations and finance, establish annual procurement priorities and performance targets.  Lead and develop a high-performing regional procurement team that can keep pace with organizational demands and growth.  Own the conversion of the approved annual budget into a costed, time-phased regional procurement plan  Set and deliver annual savings and value-for-money targets for the procurement function, evidencing realised savings against plan for use in re-forecasting and in the following year’s budget. Procurement Operations Oversee end-to-end procurement for regional initiatives and priorities.  Ensure pro