Country Security Lead, Telecom Solutions at CrossBoundary

Job Description

CrossBoundary Energy is recruiting a Country Security Lead for the development and implementation of its activities in Africa, with a focus on its Telecom Energy Solutions project opportunities. We are actively pursuing opportunities to provide energy services to integrate solar PV and storage solutions with telecom customers who rely on diesel generators to provide power to their operations. Working with our engineering team, EHS team, operations team, business development team, finance team and external consultants and EPC contractors, the Country Security Lead will be responsible for the overall security of CBE personnel and assets across Nigeria. This role will oversee security services procured from sub-contractors, act as a security focal point for client security team and government security forces. They will also oversee health and safety of all aspects of the project, including personnel transport. Other activities include incident management, reporting, and building of a culture of continuous improvement and risk management across projects.

CBE is not an EPC or a pure developer, as we seek to build a portfolio of long-term, high-performing assets. CBE will look to you for practical insights on how to make discrete business decisions that will directly affect our financial outcomes.

Who We Are

• CrossBoundary operates in frontier markets that also hold immense investment opportunities.
• The chosen candidate will play an important role in a unique team with the opportunity to make a large impact on the renewable energy landscape in Africa.
• Team members come from diverse backgrounds, but share a number of qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action.

Who You Are

• Self-starter: You don’t wait to be asked to add value. When faced with an impasse, you convene the subject-matter experts you need to find a way forward. You hold yourself personally accountable for brokering solutions where authority is unclear.
• Deliberate: You are straightforward and known for choosing the simple, robust solution where more complicated approaches would deliver the same results. Your colleagues praise you for translating complex inputs into a plan of action.
• Entrepreneurial: You want to work out how new technologies can be used to optimize our work and enable us to create robust products
• Excellence: You demonstrate and maintain the highest personal standards, continually pursuing opportunities for improvement. You are not afraid to get your hands dirty to untangle a complex issue
• Flexibility: You are comfortable with ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving and complex environment that does not have a fixed rule book. You identify opportunities where control or processes are needed, or where creative problem solving is required and take the necessary action
• Collaborative: You are eager and willing to train up colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to consistently deliver excellent work
• Curiosity: You distill the signal from the noise, and assist others to generate creative solutions by looking at problems from new perspectives.
• Authentically Cares: You are patient and skilled at developing relationships with clients, suppliers, and teammates to consistently deliver excellent outcomes
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; crisp, clear, concise, and persuasive communicator that can connect with a broad range of audiences

Primary Responsibilities

• Overall security responsibility of personnel and assets across project footprint
• Oversee site security surveys and monitoring to determine localized risks and threats to asset integrity across locations
• Reviewing minimum security standards on a periodic basis to ensure that cost effective standards are introduced that balance commercial impact with security
• Lead the identification, selection, training, and management of subcontractors that provide security services to CBE on a cost effective and safe basis
• Be the security single point of contact for clients, and security forces for all operations and management of incidents
• To be the focal point for the E2E management of security emergencies and incident management, coordinating stakeholders with established policies and processes
• Develop, own, and update the security risk assessment system for each project, working with partners, external experts, subcontractors, and clients
• Manage security incident management, including initial response, investigations, reporting, and prosecutions
• Develop and maintain security policies and protocols, and ensuring timely addressing of any gaps
• Support the CBE technical team on an adhoc basis on projects across the full CBE ESCo portfolio

Qualifications

Ideal Candidate Will Have The Following Skills And Qualifications

• 7+ years relevant working experience
• 5+ year work experience managing security operations across distributed assets in Nigeria
• Strong knowledge, understanding, and experience of the changing security situation across Nigeria
• Experience developing and managing security policies across colleagues and subcontractors in Nigeria
• Experience working with MNOs and TowerCos in Nigeria
• Interest in and understanding of the telecom sector
• Experience with monitoring and control systems
• Experience initiating and coordinating criminal prosecution with security forces, judiciary, and legal counsel

Required Skills And Qualifications

• 5+ years work experience in security operations management
• Understanding of the security situation and actors across Nigeria
• Experience in security incident management and reporting
• Demonstrated ability to independently supervise multi-stakeholder projects
• Clear effective communicator across diverse audiences
• Writes clearly, professionally, and without grammatical errors
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment and stay calm under pressure