CVPeople Tanzania

As Global Talent Director with passion in Gender, I  design, implement, and execute talent acquisition strategies and employment branding that attracts and engages top talent within our applicable markets. In partnership with senior leaders, i work to contextualize workforce insights, associate sentiment, and market research to embed inclusive practices throughout the enterprise. As part of the Human Resources Leadership team, I drive key diverse talent initiatives and programs in support of the overall company’s success. In this role, I lead a team of recruiters and specialists and support international talent acquisition activities in partnership with the local Human Resources teams.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀. 
🔘 Implemented critical sourcing, recruitment, hiring, and onboarding strategies that generated 60,000 job seekers, and also coordinated with high-scale clients like  JTI, NMB, NBC and CRDB as part of my role as a Talent Acquisition Director.

🔘 Pioneered the development of an enterprise pipeline framework for talent acquisition 
culminating in a candidate placement ratio of 1:3 with average per placement of $18000 for executive roles.

🔘 Generated more than $200,000 for the Passport 2 Employment project (P2E) to assist 350+ Youth in Zanzibar with workforce readiness and employability skills training funded by USAID.

🔘 As a CEO, I deployed a variety of cost-effective sourcing channels that 
established a diversity of candidates leading to 1200+ non-executive interviews, 800 
executives for different roles leading to the placement of 400+ mid-level to senior executives.

🔘 Instituted alignment and recruitment strategies for workforce placement by securing regional partners for expansion in countries like Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Mozambique. 

🔘 Developed and implemented marketing and sales strategies which led to 600% growth in the business in 2015/2016 financial year.

Global Talent Acquisition Director & DEI

Women in Management Africa

Women in Management Africa (WIMA) is a registered NGO in Tanzania with a mission to improve gender balance and diversity on boards and in leadership roles in line with sustainable business practices, and Goals 5 &10 of the UN SDG goals (SDG 2030). WIMA was found to address the challenge of lower female presentation at leadership and senior management levels in the workplace. 

OUR VISION
We aim to become a thriving network supporting women on their board, and leadership journey, and celebrating their successes.
WIMA services are:
1. Identifying the best talent fit for board and senior level appointments
2. Improving gender balance on boards and leadership roles
3. Providing leadership & board training, events, career advancement, and mentorship programs 

Achievements:
🔘 Analysed, developed, and implemented industry trends that guided over 135+ women 
leaders in Africa to get promoted, and have access to new networks, international visibility, and mentoring opportunities.
🔘 Conducted full lifecycle recruitment for senior-level positions that expedited 25% of women within the network to break the glass ceiling and get boardroom access.
🔘 Investigated and invented organisational design best practices  to ensure adherence to increase female representation framework of policies, legislation, and guidelines for 10+ divisional HR Directors.
🔘 Launched WIMA board readiness training program to improve female presentation at board level in Tanzania

🔘 In my role as a Gender Strategist, I boosted workforce diversity by setting up women networks and training programs for female leaders on resilience, and emotional intelligence while increasing representation on the executive level across 5 organisations.
🔘 Instituted measures to achieve diversity and inclusion by launching the first gender diversity report which analysed female representation on boards for 28 companies listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange as a Gender Strategist.

Founder/ Gender Specialist

African Business Chamber (AfBC)

African Business Chamber (AfBC) is a global UK based organisation representing the interest of African businesses, investors, entrepreneurs and professionals. We are the voice of the African global business community championing and facilitating trade, investment, diaspora and economic relations with African countries.

AfBC organises events and runs a number of campaigns and activities aimed at supporting the organisation, its members and the business community to empower, support to accelerate growth, enhance productivity, access new opportunities, showcase products and solutions, enhance marketing and highlight the needs of African businesses.
1. Contribution to advisory board outcomes through value-driven insights and advice
2. Introductions and advocacy within approved guidelines for the organization
3. Promoting the organization brand, activities, events and services within your networks, industry, markets, and social media engagements
4.Supporting the organization in recruiting new members, establish strategic partnerships and relationships in various market to drive business development
5.Participating in the organization governance meetings, activities, providing specialized expertise
6. Supporting to identify business development and revenue generation opportunities for growth
7.Representing the organization and its interests in my networks and industries

Advisory Board Member

The Runway

The Runway is a youth led non profit organisation that seeks to support students who study abroad by disseminating relevant information, facilitating skills development opportunities, and creating a community that encourages growth. We believe that with proper mentorship and the right information and preparation, students can successfull ... see more•	Advising matters that concern programs and fundraising efforts
1.To identify fundraising, technical assistance and marketing resources
2.Engages in strategic dialogue and participates in robust discussions to help the organization
3.Identify opportunities for improving business development, stakeholder management, resource management.
4.Guide the board on matters relating to business development, stakeholder management, resource management.

Optima Corporate Finance

Optima Corporate Finance is a growing company in assets management, corporate finance, stockbroking, and infrastructure advisory in Tanzania. A private company that is a Unit trust offering investment products.

Achievements
🔘 Strengthened the delivery of enterprise-wide talent needs and metrics while introducing an innovative idea of an investment product for women.

🔘 Evaluated the performance of the management team, oversaw the activities of the executive board members, and contributed to the talent acquisition and recruitment of senior management.

🔘 Collaborated with other executive directors to build and develop secure and robust system controls and frameworks for accessing and regulating risks.

🔘 Formulated and transformed the corporate strategy by providing constructive criticism with the support of the team in my role as a board member.

🔘 Boosted staff resourcefulness by obtaining independent training required to fulfill board duties, at the expense of the company.

🔘 Increased the visibility of the company by making relevant connections outside the company and collaborating with the network in achieving the company’s objectives and mission. 

🔘 Provided constructive feedback and a broader, external view of the outside factors affecting the business and challenged the existing business plans, which helped the company record an upturn in growth.

Independent Board Director

Digital Opportunity Trust

🔘 Collaborated with 3 associate directors to design a new strategic operating plan that will directly increase the effectiveness and competitiveness of the company over the next five years.

🔘 Provided strategic insight and direction as a board member and contributed to granting more than $500,000 in funding for youth digital projects that rolled out in different regions in Tanzania in my role as a board member.

🔘 Created, promoted, and oversaw awareness campaigns and helped broaden the marketing and brand reach of the company.

🔘 Planned and executed a recruiting and talent acquisition strategy to support a 50% growth in the employee population in one year while saving over 50 million in recruiting fees. 

🔘 Guided the executive team through organizational restructurings which created a more
flexible, cost-efficient workforce.

🔘 Analyzed operations, evaluated performance, & determined areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement & policy changes.

Advisory Board Director

Innovatech  ltd

🔘 Provided strategic leadership to the team of employees and ensured that the business operations in all units were executed seamlessly, and most importantly ensure the business financial goals are met during my time as CEO. 
🔘 Managed all recruitment processes including drafting job descriptions, provision of input to job classification processes, vacancy announcement, screening of candidates, participation in the interview panels, and making recommendations on recruitment.

Managing Director and Founder

UNESCO

🔘 Charged with monitoring and providing reports on implemented program plans and strategies, maintaining donor report schedules, and utilizing this information to provide comprehensive and up-to-date status reports programme implementation, outstanding advances, expenditure, and other related information on programme implementation.
🔘 Was part of the team which prepared reports, programme documents, and submissions for government by providing information, preparing relevant tables, and drafting routine sections while participating in the briefing and orientation of programme staff on administrative and financial work processes and procedures.

Human Resources Associate

Roni Deutch, A Professional Tax Corporation

🔘 Maintained company reputation by working on personal tax preparation, federal (1040), or business (1065, 1120) and state tax returns for clients while resolving tax issues with the IRS and state audits. 
🔘 Increased human resource effectiveness by supervising, reviewing, training, and developing permanent staff employees.
🔘 Boosted our regulatory compliance by answering all of the tax staff’s unanswered questions and reviewing all the work they produced, and eventually saved client over $20000 in tax liability owed by the IRS.

Tax Associate

Caremark

🔘 Maximized revenue by proactively building and managing key customer relationships, further illustrating communication and problem-solving abilities. 
🔘 Applied organizational skills and sharp attention to detail in evaluating and reconciling drawers to ensure accurate cash levels and processing bank deposits.
🔘 Built a personal connection with each customer to maintain their loyalty to the company.
🔘 Successfully provided legendary service through the use of integrity, product knowledge, and upbeat energy.

Customer Services Specialist

𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!
A few years ago, at the early stages of my entrepreneurial journey, I discovered a huge gap in talent sourcing, especially sourcing mid to executive-level recruitment. Which led to me starting the recruitment agency CVPeople Tanzania.

In my work as CEO, Founder, and Director of Talent Acquisition, I possess significant Business Management, Brand Building, and HR Management capabilities which provided me with the ability and skills needed to lead the establishment of the organization with a focus on helping large companies find the right talents with the right expertise for the right role. 

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 
As a specialist in Pan African Recruitment and Talent Acquisition with 12+ years of experience, I observed the gaps in women applying for positions, especially in senior roles This led to the birth of Women in Management Africa (WIMA), aimed at improving gender balance and diversity on boards and in leadership roles. I am a gender diversity and inclusion practitioner who works with organisations and senior leadership to forge more gender-balanced and inclusive workplaces covering governance, leadership, culture, policies, and supply chains.  

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 
🔘 Analysed, developed, and implemented industry trends that guided over 135+ women 
leaders in Africa get promoted, have access to new networks, international visibility and 
mentoring opportunities.
🔘 Successfully provided training to over 420 Youths in Tanzania on workforce readiness & 
employability skills via the program Passport to Employment project (P2E) which has fostered 
development and growth of Youths income and business ventures in Tanzania 
🔘 Interviewed over 1000 non-executives for different roles and placed hundreds of executive and board member positions

𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 
I maximize my coaching ability and expertise, as a mentor in facilitating gender parity in the workplace by increasing visibility, training, and honoring women in leadership roles in their workplaces through my products offerings:

🔘	Personal Branding & Linkedin Profile Optimization for Executives
🔘   Executive Recruitment
🔘   Board services: Recruitment, search, and advisory
🔘   Global Paid Speaker

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗲
Desiring to build your personal brand or a high-performing diversified team for your business?  I am excited to hear about collaborations requiring my expertise.   Do contact me via email at naike@naikemoshi.com

Dr. Naike Moshi

Imagine you’ve built a brand that brings in customers without begging for attention or chasing cold leads.

Sounds good, right? But here’s where things get complicated real quick: 

Most think “more posts, more ads, more likes” will get them there. It won’t.

What actually works is clear positioning + bold, trust-building content. 

When people instantly “get” who you are, why you matter, and what’s in it for them, they stop seeing you as noise and start seeing you as the obvious first choice.

If you’ve tried posting every day, running ads that don’t convert, or burning hours on cold outreach, you know the pain. Recognition doesn’t come. Revenue stalls. Competitors with weaker offers still beat you because they frame their story better. 

Every day you delay fixing this is a day invested against you.

What should you do?

This is where I step in. I help B2B companies and personal brands turn their online presence into a client magnet. Together, we sharpen your message, design content that drives authority, and build systems that turn attention into sales.

What you get

→ A clear position in your market
→ Content that creates demand, not just engagement
→ A magnetic personal/founder/executive brand

Why Me?

🎯I’m the most followed Tanzanian marketer and one of leading discussion starters on LinkedIn. What that means for you is I know how to create content that doesn’t just appear on people’s feeds, but stays in their minds — and moves them to act.

📖 My first book sold 1.4m TZS in two weeks, with over 500K in pre-orders. I’ll help you frame your offer and craft a product launch sequence.

🏢My agency  delivers Ready-to-Publish content that position our clients as the best at what they do. No endless back-and-forth.

📍 My Story
I built my brand from scratch, overcoming the added difficulty of coming from a remote village in a developing country. Attended a chronically underfunded Ward/Kata school where students spoke vernacular. English was my 3rd language. I turned that disadvantage into an edge. That’s why I see marketing as alchemy.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

“Best market positioner in Africa” 
–David James, 1st CEO @AccessBank (Now Selcom MF Bank).

“Highly recommend connecting with Shukuru and Tanzlite Digital for all your digital marketing and website needs!” —Andrew Peter Kato, MD @Geoproptech.


Imagine what happens when your brand isn’t just seen, but remembered. Imagine customers coming to you — not the other way around.

Ready to stop chasing and start attracting the right customers?

DM me.

Shukuru Amos

You’d expect Tanzania’s ruling party to pause and reflect — perhaps to recall Pericles of ancient Athens, who warned: “I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy’s devices.”

Because this is precisely such a blunder.

Not just the act itself, but the perception architecture around it — one that signals a regime unable to read the room, unable to adjust, unable even to project the appearance of reflection. (And in politics, appearance is everything.)

With this many bullets in its own leg, critics don’t need to attack. They only need to standby and watch the regime limp toward its own undoing.

A strong state is undone by external pressure. A weak one becomes a snake that consume itself.

Content Alchemist | Turning attention into trust & clients for B2Bs + personal brands

CNN delivers "The empress has no clothes" evidence. Link to the article in comments.

Institutional immaturity never attracts Apple or Tesla. It only attracts short-term extractors. Good luck with the UAE guys.

To those checking on me for being a little silent on LinkedIn, thank you and I'm ok. I am exercising the perks of being self-owned. Decided that December I'm going semi sloth and spend an unhealthy amount of TV time watching sword fights and trying to figure out murder mysteries. 

Will officially resume my frequent yappings here in the coming year.

The regime loves telling ordinary Tanzanians to “know your place.” But the moment someone higher up the global food chain says it back to them, they suddenly transform into anti-imperialist freedom fighters.

Authoritarian pride is loud at home. And painfully thin abroad.

Niseme tu kwamba nimeumaliza mwendo wa kazi kwa mwaka huu. Kama ulikuwa unapanga kufanya kazi nasi ndo basi tena. Tuangalie mwakani panapo uzima.

Niko nasubmit project mbili hapa after that I'm done.

*States my price.
The company: "But Shukuru, you will only be supplying the text and our in-house will...

And the junior writer saw all that ChatGPT has generated, and behold, he decided was very good. And there was evening and by morning, he submitted the wrok.

Build a personal brand so you can call it a year early on December. And start discovering gyms.

The G20 is talking about “debt relief” again. But this time, relief from who exactly?

Look at the chart by the Economist. The story isn’t external anymore. African debt has quietly come home.

A growing share of what governments owe is to their own banks, pension funds, and investors. In several countries, domestic lenders now hold more than half of all government debt.

Mr Ramaphosa is right to warn that Africa risks defaulting on development. But who exactly is supposed to forgive the debt when so much of it sits on the books of domestic banks and pension funds? Any haircut there weakens the very institutions that keep credit flowing, and the shock would move quickly through the real economy.

The aid cuts, the US boycott of the summit, all send one message: the West is not in a forgiving mood as it used to in the 2000s. And you have China, who grants delays rather than permanent debt relief. 

Almost half of Africa’s external debt is now commercial paper—eurobonds held by private investors who negotiate with spreadsheets, not geopolitics.

So the question stands: when presidents call for debt relief, who are they expecting to absorb the loss?

The old architecture of forgiveness no longer exists. The new one is fragmented, market-driven, and far less sympathetic.

Until we acknowledge the composition of this debt—the rise of domestic borrowing, the dominance of commercial creditors, and the limits of bilateral goodwill—we’ll keep repeating the same plea without any of the tools that made the last wave of relief possible.

Ukata wa pesa unakufanya uwe na tunnel vision kiasi kwamba, unafocus kwenye kuisaka pesa in a literal sense. Hadi inafikia hatua hauoni faida ya kusoma kitabu chochote ambacho kichwa chake hakijataja neno Pesa na gamba lake si picha ya Pesa.

Kuitafuta pesa kwa kukamia huku hupelekea kuifukuza.

Nimemwomba ChatGPT aiweke hii kwa kimombo. Kasema hivi:

"[flattery redacted] when you’re broke, you start filtering everything through the lens of immediate gain. The irony is, that mindset blocks the very growth and learning that could actually get you out of scarcity. You end up chasing money so narrowly that you repel it."

DeepSeek kwa upande wake kasema:

"The behavior you describe is most accurately called short-termism, driven by cognitive tunneling and a narrow form of pragmatism. It's a focus on the symptom (not having money) rather than the root causes (not having the knowledge, wisdom, and innovative mindset that actually create wealth and success)."


So, kuna hilo litafakari.

These days English exams be like:

"Re-write the following paragraphs by removing em dashes and negative-positive sentence parallels". (10 marks)

The Economist’s World Ahead 2026 isn’t exactly bullish on Africa.

ONE: It will be another disappointing year for Africa’s struggling democracy. They name Ethiopia’s election to be the “continent’s most farcical poll". 

TWO: The impact of aid cuts will bite harder in 2026. You’d hope this creates room for African governments to define their own development agenda. But the publication points out the uncomfortable truth: many of the same elites who talk sovereignty have overseen decades of economic underperformance. 

Real change may depend on a newer generation of leaders with a very different appetite for accountability and modernisation.

THREE: As the West turns inward, Africa leans further into China. The trade data already shows where the momentum is.

They also float the idea of a fast, messy, Trump-brokered deal in Somalia. The kind of peace that quiets headlines without fixing anything underneath.

Not the most inspiring outlook—but a useful mirror for where the continent stands, and where agency still lies.

Learned a new word today: Democide. The intentional killing of unarmed civilians by their own government.

It led me to a powerful paper, “Democide and Genocide as Rent-Seeking Activities” by economist Gerald W. Scully (Public Choice, 1997).

Economist Gerald Scully once argued that democide is not an accident—it’s rent-seeking by political elites. 

When institutions are weak and economies rely on resource rents, the state turns repressive because violence becomes a tool of economic preservation. 

His data showed that democidal states end up about 20% poorer, with weaker institutions and less diversification. In other words: a government that kills its civilians kills its future too.

For anyone studying authoritarianism, African politics, or institutional maturity, this paper is a must-read.

CEO, Upboost LLC; Board Member and VP Africa at Oniva Motors

Samia Suluhu Hassan is no queen of hearts. She is a stark reminder - and warning - that authoritarian dictatorship is not just a "man's thing". 

The rise of whom many are now calling Idi Amin Mama reveals a chilling truth: narcissistic personality disorder expressed through brutality and tyranny is not exclusive to men. However, Suhulu does have the dubious honor of being the first female dictator in the modern sense of the word. She is also an unabashed practitioner of democide: the intentional (premeditated) killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting under government policy (R.J. Rummel).

Contrary to stereotypes suggesting women leaders prioritize social issues, Suhulu, like her fellow male autocrats, engages in conflict and implements harsh policies to assert dominance. These actions serve to prove her capability in maintaining control. She depends on an authoritative style to demonstrate the masculine qualities that her male counterparts inherit from birth. Despite her apparent omnipotence, her behavior undoubtedly reflects how she grew up with internalised pressure to conform to the centuries-old male model of ideal power - authoritarian and aggressive - to be taken seriously as a leader. 

Suhulu obviously sees herself as a very "special" person deserving of admiration and, consequently, has difficulty empathizing with the feelings and needs of others: delusions of grandeur coupled with vindictive behavior lead to extreme potential for evil. Yet, she obviously also suffers from excessive anxiety – mostly regarding fears of citizen uprising and/or assassination. 

It's not a question of one freak individual and her psychology. It's something generic about authoritarian behavior that makes it deteriorate over time. Dictators, even those like Suhulu who came to power with the intention of helping the nation, frequently morph over time into tyrants. The series of decisions she has had to take over time concerning how much political intrigue and evil to indulge in in order to stay in power have converted her into a tyrant. As the cost of exit got higher, she had to indulge in even greater political intrigue, ruthlessness and evil to make sure she was not thrown out of office (based on Kaushik Basu, Oxford Open Economics, 2023). Now, having fraudulently won reelection amidst violent repression, and having no viable exit options, she has to be even more ruthless.

Suhulu will, eventually, come to regret this, if she isn't already regretting it. To survive, she will have to continue projecting fear and using terror as her all-purpose tool ... because she knows that once out of power, she will, in all likelihood, be punished by her own people or even killed by the generals.

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