Job Description
CrossBoundary is recruiting a full-time Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our People Team. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will work to build upon our strong employer brand and support our teams globally across 26 countries to hire exceptional talent. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will oversee the recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing top-tier, diverse talent for our firm. This role reports directly to our Chief People Officer.
Who We Are
The CrossBoundary team is a unique group of people who are genuinely excited by the opportunity to make a difference in some of the most challenging and exciting markets in the world. Team members come from diverse backgrounds but share several qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action.
Who You Are
- Self-starter who is passionate about creating lasting change in underserved markets
- Willing to take on new types of work, even without prior experience or direct supervision
- High tolerance for ambiguity; able to operate effectively in a changing context
- Ability to build strong relationships at all levels
- Outstanding presentation skills: the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
- Humble
- Excellent organizational skills and follow-through
- Sense of ownership and ability to lead projects
- Familiarity and comfort with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
- Proficiency in JazzHR preferred
- Measurable results in recruiting top-tier talent from junior to executive-level roles
- Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruitment using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
- Experience with multiple outreach sourcing strategies to proactively source candidates
- 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition, recruitment, or similar; strong preference for experience in the financial services or impact investment space
- Bachelor’s degree required
Primary Responsibilities
- Working with the Chief People Officer (CPO) and other members of the Talent team to ensure we have a Talent Strategy in place
- Ensuring our firm’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is front and center in our recruitment process
- Partnering closely with our CPO and Communications team to ensure we have a strong employer brand and then sharing that brand on our website, social media, etc.
- Mission, values, benefits, sharing stories of team members online, highlighting our culture through storytelling, etc.
Supporting our teams in the planning phase
- Reviewing job descriptions for inclusivity
- Uploading final job descriptions
- Reviewing hiring plan forms
- Developing application questionnaires and posting them
- Designing the interview process and ensuring the hiring team is diverse
- Creating evaluation scorecards and uploading them
- Brainstorming and finalizing sourcing lists
- Provide hiring managers with hiring metrics
- Ensuring the hiring team has any needed templates for their personal outreach
Sourcing candidates
- Posting jobs
- Diversifying our outreach and sourcing strategies, especially in challenging-to-hire markets
- Targeting passive candidates through networking, tailored outreach, our strong employer brand, and more
- Hosting networking events, relevant industry affinity groups, MBA (Master of Business Administration) information sessions, career fairs, etc.
- Managing and owning relationships with industry-relevant groups and posting jobs to relevant job boards
- Managing MBA school relationships and posting jobs to relevant schools
- Growing and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline for all business units
Screening and delivering the hiring team’s top-tier candidates to interview
- Assessing, evaluating, and pre-screening candidates via CV reviews, calls, or emails
- Producing a short-list of diverse, top-tier applicants for teams to interview
Interviewing support
- Strengthening our unbiased hiring practices and educating our teams
- Building upon our current interview processes to ensure they are scalable
- Ensuring our application processes are consistent across teams and platforms, as applicable
- Streamlining a method to reject candidates who are not selected to move forward and owning that process
- Organizing and scheduling all technical interviews (e.g., case and financial models)
- Training new team members who join our technical interview teams
- Working closely with the Administration team to coordinate gifts
- Maintaining a standard and relevant template for reference calls; ensuring team members are trained in best practices for conducting calls
- Drafting and sharing offer letters with hiring managers
Tracking centrally
- Ensuring teams are moving candidates through the process quickly
- Tracking referrals and incentivizing team members
Other
- Working with our People team to ensure all data is accurate and feeds centrally into our People Dashboard
- Owning and managing relationships with external recruiters, as needed
- Running our MBA Associate program
- Consistently auditing and improving our interview processes, templates, screening, and sourcing strategies
- Ad hoc projects, as assigned by CPO
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Who You Are
- Self-starter who is passionate about clean energy and its potential to transform fragile states and frontier markets in Africa
- Entrepreneurial mind who is not afraid of exploring how new technologies can be used to optimize our work and enable us to create robust products
- Capable of applying engineering principles to complex, bespoke problems that require creative thinking
- Comfortable with ambiguity; you are effective in a fast-moving and complex environment that does not have a fixed rule book.
- A practical thinker known for choosing the simple, robust solution where more complicated approaches would deliver the same results
- A open-minded learner who is not afraid to take on new challenges head on
- Eager and willing to train up contractors to consistently deliver excellent work
- A systematic and highly organized project manager; takes personal accountability for tracking numerous activities across workstreams and driving them all to successful conclusion
- Sound commercial judgement; independently assesses the most economical interventions
- Considers the long-term view when evaluating the costs and benefits of a potential solution
- A creative problem-solver not afraid to get their hands dirty to untangle a complex issue
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide engineering expertise during project design, construction, commissioning, representing the interests of CBE’s customer and our interests as the asset owner
- Conduct hybrid sizing, configuration and design including optimal configuration of solar, thermal and storage seeking to optimize for LCoE
- Produce preliminary design documentation including layouts, Interconnection strategy, SLD’s, BoQ’s, PVSyst analysis, etc.;
- Provide ongoing technical support and design review throughout project implementation, network integration and commissioning
- Carry out site and situation analysis of projects and effectively drive the technical development to address high risk and critical path workstreams.
- Support data gathering from customers and associated 3rd parties as required to effectively carry out studies and associated development activities
- Support or drive the development of an asset management tool
- Support the early-stage technical analysis of projects including the engagement with third party consultants and specialists as may be required to carry out specialist studies
- Support with the EPC engagement, contracting, configuration optimization and review of EPC detailed designs
- Support the business development team with technical inputs for pricing, proposal materials and customer engagement
- Provide technical support during Energy as a Service (EaaS) contract drafting and negotiations
- Support with project management through implementation including:
- Support during Kickoff meeting and ongoing stakeholder engagement
- Project progress and quality reviews
- Support with EaaS and EPC contracts
- 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:
- 3+ years relevant working experience
- 2+ year work experience in solar PV, SHS, minigrids or nanogrid construction with a top-tier firm
- Experience designing a small scale solar/storage/thermal hybrid project including minigrids and nanogrids
- Working knowledge of battery storage technologies and design of storage solutions
- Background in designing and implementing EHS policies for construction projects
- Undergone some project management training
- Experience working in Africa
- Good commercial understanding of the solar IPP model including an understanding of project finance
- Interest and understanding of the telecom world
- Experience with monitoring and control systems
Required skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor’s engineering degree (mechanical/electrical/electronic)
- 2+ years work experience in either power systems engineering, electrical transmission/distribution networks, building electrical engineering, or electrical generation
- Hybrid sizing, configuring and modelling experience – HOMER (or similar) and/or self-built models
- Understanding of the key components that form part of a hybrid solution:
- Solar PV
- Battery storage (including understanding different storage technologies and the associated tradeoffs)
- Thermal/baseload generation – diesel generators
- Strong understanding of AC/DC Electrical Power Systems, Power Electronics, and/or Solar Energy
- Demonstrated interest in renewable energy systems
- Work experience or demonstrated familiarity with solar PV installations
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field
- Demonstrated ability to independently supervise multi-stakeholder projects
- Clear effective communicator across diverse audiences
- Writes clearly, professionally, and without grammatical errors
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