Security Manager, Telecom Solutions at CrossBoundary

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