Head of Workplace IT

We're actively recruiting a Head of Workplace IT as we continue to scale our internal operations at M-KOPA. You'll own the technology, services, and vendors that keep over 2,500 employees productive across 5 offices, 4 warehouses, 100+ retail sites, and 10 call centres in six countries. The Impact

Your leadership will directly enable the people and infrastructure behind a business that's unlocked over $2 billion in credit for more than 10 million customers across Africa. Every reliable network, every well-run service desk ticket, and every secure endpoint you manage supports the 2,500+ employees and 35,000+ agents working to bring financial inclusion to Every Day Earners. It's your chance to be the backbone of something that's genuinely transforming lives across a continent.

• Mission-driven infrastructure:
  Your day-to-day work — from network uptime to identity management — directly enables a distributed workforce delivering financial inclusion at scale
• Global recognition:
  Join a company recognised by CNBC's World Top 300 Fintechs and named among the Financial Times' Africa's Fastest Growing Companies for 5 consecutive years (2022–2026)
• Scale challenges:
  Run wired and wireless networks, telephony, and end-user compute across 5 offices, 4 warehouses, 100+ retail sites, and 10 call centres — much of it in variable-connectivity markets
• Purpose-built growth:
  Stand up Workplace IT capabilities for new sites and market launches as M-KOPA continues to expand across Africa

At M-KOPA, you'll own the Workplace IT roadmap end-to-end — from networks and telephony to end-user compute, identity, productivity tooling, and service management. You'll lead and grow a multi-country Workplace IT team, own the opex and capex budget, and drive cost discipline across hardware, connectivity, telephony, and software. Join us in combining strong technical infrastructure with a genuinely user-focused mindset that keeps a fast-growing, multi-country fintech productive and secure.

• Networks & telephony
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  Wired and wireless networks across all offices, warehouses, and retail sites; contact-centre telephony across ~10 call-centre sites

• On-site infrastructure
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  On-prem hardware and physical environments — server rooms, power, cooling, physical security, CCTV

• End-user compute & mobile
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  Full lifecycle management of laptops, desktops, and phones for 2,500+ employees, plus endpoint and mobile device management (MDM)

• Identity & access
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  Identity platform (directory, SSO, MFA), joiner/mover/leaver processes, and recertification for internal and external applications

• Productivity & collaboration
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  Core software suite selection and management (collaboration, back-office, AI tools), vendor/contract management, licensing/SaaS spend, meeting-room and AV systems

• Security & resilience
  : IT-side security hygiene (patching, vulnerability remediation, endpoint protection, hardening), business continuity and disaster recovery

• We balance cost, performance, security, and resilience — especially in variable-connectivity markets
• We partner closely with the Security function on IT-side security hygiene, with clear ownership boundaries between the two functions
• We keep access controls operationally excellent, low-friction for users, and audit-ready
• We set and drive the norms and adoption practices that make tools actually succeed, not just get deployed
• We measure ourselves against SLAs and service performance metrics that show IT is delivering

We care more about your skills than where you got them from — relevant degrees or certifications (e.g. ITIL, CISSP, cloud/network certs) are desirable but not required.

• Proven leadership of a multi-site IT function at…