Africa Jobs Network
About Africa Jobs Network

The group behind a growing talent ecosystem in East Africa.

Africa Jobs Network operates as a holding and information platform for a portfolio of brands serving recruitment, employability, talent search, and HR technology across the region.

AJN At A Glance

Africa Jobs Network

Holding and information platform for four operating brands

Built around recruitment, employability, and employer growth

Focused on East Africa with long-term expansion ambition

AJN at a glance

Africa Jobs Network (AJN) is a recruitment and talent technology group based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 25 years of experience in HR and recruitment across Africa. Its brands run job boards, graduate employability programmes and talent acquisition services, supported by applicant tracking systems, employer branding solutions and recruitment analytics.

Ethiojobs

Ethiopia's leading job board and the first e-recruitment platform introduced to the Ethiopian job market, with a network of over 1,000,000 active candidates.

Dereja

Since 2015, Dereja has worked on youth unemployment in Ethiopia. It runs a fresh-graduate job board, job-readiness and employability training, and career expos, with over 140,000 candidates in its database.

Kipawa

A talent acquisition agency in Kenya that combines technology with knowledge of Africa's talent pools to match skills, aspirations and cultural fit to employers' needs.

About AJN

With years of experience in offering bespoke talent solutions for the African market, AJN is now looking to leverage its wealth of recruitment experience to transform how talent is acquired on the continent.

The Recruitment Journey: Years ago, people would read the classified section of the newspaper to find the latest jobs. In the last 20 years, job boards became the rage, transforming the recruitment scene by amalgamating all available jobs and providing search options to active job seekers.

Fast forward to today; social recruitment sites target both active and passive job seekers. We go a step further by providing an informed experience for our candidates which gives a holistic view of the company they are looking to join while cutting through the noise to find the right people.

AJN seeks to establish itself as the leading recruitment branding platform in Africa.

About Zoscales

Zoscales Partners is a private equity company that focuses on growth capital in small and medium-sized businesses in East Africa that show superior return potential. They provide a sound private equity strategy managed by a team of international investment professionals and local East African entrepreneurs. Zoscales Partners takes control of the management and exits investments through either majority shareholding or as a minority shareholder by the use of preferred shares or equivalent instruments.

They offer direct investments and strategic management, enabling African businesses to expand and grow, whilst striving for superior and sustainable returns for their investors. They believe in a win-win concept for their investors and African businesses. In other words, they invest where it matters!

Zoscales has invested in Africa Jobs Network to create state-of-the-art technology in the talent search industry. The investment is expected to create new jobs across East Africa during the coming years.

Frequently asked questions

What is Africa Jobs Network?

Africa Jobs Network (AJN) is a recruitment and talent technology group based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It operates job boards, employability programmes and talent acquisition services across Africa.

What does AJN do?

AJN helps employers find talent and helps candidates find work. Its services include job boards, applicant tracking systems, employer branding solutions, and recruitment reporting and analytics.

Which brands belong to AJN?

AJN's brands include Ethiojobs, Dereja and Kipawa. Ethiojobs and Dereja serve the Ethiopian job market, and Kipawa serves employers in Kenya.

Who invests in AJN?

Zoscales Partners, a private equity company focused on growth capital for small and medium-sized businesses in East Africa, has invested in AJN to build technology for the talent search industry.

Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Yusuf Reja

Founder and CEO

Africa Jobs Network

Yusuf Reja is a serial entrepreneur who has developed solutions for the human resources industry with a major focus on career development. He is the founder of Ethiojobs.net, Dereja.com, and Kipawa. He studied Electrical Engineering in the United States at the University of California Santa Barbara. His journey in the career development field began when he established Ethiojobs over 15 years ago; Ethiopia's first local human resources consulting firm focused on recruitment services and HR consulting. Over the years, he has gained an unparalleled knowledge of the African job market and the challenges facing employers and job seekers in Africa.

He is an entrepreneur at heart and is always looking for solutions to address challenges in the talent industry!

Board of Directors

Malcolm Myers

Founder and CEO

European Internet Ventures GmbH

Malcolm has spent more than a decade buying, selling and raising capital for online classifieds and marketplaces throughout the world. He has touched hundreds of real estate, automotive, and recruitment classifieds and marketplace businesses in Brazil, China, USA, Switzerland, Cameroon, and Singapore. His earlier work was about building up telecoms network operators in Europe, through product management, marketing, and business development roles - including 5 years as an Executive Director of Sunrise in Switzerland, which later IPOed for $3billion.

He is the Founder and CEO of European Internet Ventures which helps companies in classifieds and marketplace raise funding from venture capital, private equity, and other suitable internet investors.

Board of Directors

Ashenafi Alemu

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Zoscales Partners

Ashenafi is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Zoscales Partners and a Member of the Investment Committee. He has over a decade of experience in management consulting, infrastructure investments, and economic policy both in East Africa and Europe.

Previously, he took part in establishing a corporate finance and management-consulting boutique in Addis Ababa: North-South Consulting Group. He holds an MSc in Economics from Aarhus University (Denmark), a BSc in International Business from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), and a BSc from Aarhus School of Business (Denmark).

Senior Management Team

Senior Management Team

Dina Makonnen

Chief Operating Officer

Africa Jobs Network

Dina is a seasoned human resources professional who is passionate about people development and business growth. She has held different positions where she has excelled in areas such as strategy development, operations management, organization design & development, people development, and HR advisory. She was instrumental in developing the business concept of Ethiojobs platform which has grown significantly over the years.

She has over twenty years of experience helping companies succeed through strategic & annual planning, change management, restructuring, winning culture, talent management, rewards, and turnaround leadership. With the ability to work with multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural teams, Dina brings a wealth of experience in the HR industry.

Senior Management Team

Hilina Legesse

Country Manager, Ethiopia

Ethiojobs

Hilina has over 7 years of experience in the recruitment field in East Africa. She has a background in Economics from Addis Ababa University and has thrived in the HR field over the years. She has worked at Ethiojobs and grown the company by overseeing HR Services and ensuring quality client support and service delivery. An eloquent public speaker on HR topics, she is also is skilled in Negotiation, Management, Talent Acquisition and Business Development.

She is the Country Manager for operations in Ethiopia and her role involves team development and management, operations and service delivery management.

Senior Management Team

Melody Roth

Country Manager, Kenya

Kipawa

Melody is a seasoned finance and operations professional who studied Political Science and later, Business Administration. She has over 13 years of managerial experience having worked in Canada and Kenya. She brings great experience and insights to her role as Country Manager for Kipawa. Her main responsibility is to grow Kipawa, which she joined when it first started operations in Kenya. She also manages all operations and leads a team of 8. She has great financial analysis and management skills as well as sales and operations management skills.

Senior Management Team

Siham Ayele

Project Manager

Dereja.com

Siham has a great passion for youth development specifically in tackling the youth unemployment problem in Ethiopia. Together with her team, she has grown Dereja.com and achieved great milestones towards bridging the skills gap between graduates and the workplace. She began her career as a researcher and worked her way up to becoming an HR consultant. Siham graduated from Addis Ababa with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations.

In her role as the Project Manager, she designs career development programs, manages relationships with donors, partners, government representatives, universities and ensures that the various programs are running smoothly. She is working to bring about transformation and impact in the youth unemployment space.