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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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Job Description

• As an Analyst, you will be tasked with evaluating investment opportunities, conducting macroeconomic market assessments, and providing transaction support to both investors and capital seekers.
• Analyst candidates should have 1-3 years of experience working in high-calibre finance or consulting organizations and experience working in developing countries – ideally in Nigeria.
• Expertise in project finance, renewable energy, agriculture, healthcare, creative industries and gender-lens investments will be regarded favourably. 

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 world's most challenging yet exciting markets. Team members come from diverse backgrounds but share several qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Prepare investor documents including teasers, investment memoranda, business plans etc. 
• Conduct research and market assessments - macroeconomic, regulatory, and operational assessments of relevant companies, industries, markets and topics 
• Provide sector analysis of priority areas for investment 
• Investor sourcing 
• Lead identification of qualified investors 
• Manage investor relationships 
• Develop valuation and operational financial models 
• Coordinate due diligence and transaction execution 
• Support with Monitoring and Evaluation activities 
• Support organization of conferences and other networking events 

Qualifications 

• Strong quantitative skills and finance background; familiar with company evaluation and valuation 
• Excellent analytical ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues 
• Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments 
• Excellent presentation skills with an ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences 
• Self-starter who is passionate about creating lasting change in frontier markets 
• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to operate effectively in a changing context 
• Willingness to work and live in a sometimes challenging environment 
• Knowledge of the West African investment landscape (or previous work experience in West Africa) 
• Experience working with a range of stakeholders (including private equity firms, Development Finance Institutions, and development agencies) to support investments in high-impact sectors 
• Bachelor’s degree required 

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Who You Are

• Self-starter who is passionate about energy/sustainability/decarbonization and its potential to transform fragile states and frontier markets in Africa
• Strong quantitative skills; familiarity with financial and pricing models. Expert excel and VBA skills is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills
• Comfortable with ambiguity; ability to operate effectively in a changing, challenging context
• Strong business judgement; ability to independently conduct evaluations of a variety of businesses
• Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or finance-related major
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience in a business or finance-related field
• Experience living and/or working in emerging markets
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills

Ideal candidate

• Work experience in energy or climate-related field. Specific experience in the telecom sector is a plus.
• Experience with GIS tools and analysis
• Work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience at top tier firm

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the ESCO team on tracking various opportunities and helping ensure efficient follow-up
• Understand clients’ business activities and drivers
• Develop and iterate pricing and solutions for potential clients across multiple geographies
• Develop proposals and presentations for clients with commercial terms and value proposition
• Conduct market research to inform business strategy
• Support desktop due diligence of potential projects and clients

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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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Who You Are 

• Excellence: Demonstrated expertise in negotiating project finance contracts including power purchase agreements, partnerships, leases, secured debt, engineering agreements, procurement contracts, construction agreements, and similar structures. You hold your own work to higher standards because that’s what delivers successful outcomes. Transaction or transaction advisory experience in the renewable energy industry preferred, with experience in decarbonizing and energy transition of Africa’s telecom sector an advantage. 
• Acts Like an Owner: You hold yourself personally accountable for brokering solutions where authority is unclear. When faced with an impasse, you convene the subject-matter experts you need to find a way forward 
• Deliberate Thinker: Proficiency in complex corporate finance models, project finance models, corporate structuring, and tax concepts makes you a pragmatic commercial decision-maker. You’re known for deducing the simple, robust solution from more complicated approaches 
• Curiosity: Not satisfied with “no;” assists others to generate creative solutions by looking at problems from new perspectives. You do not make or accept ultimatums 
• Prioritizes Results: You distill the signal from the noise. Your colleagues praise you for translating complex inputs into a plan of action. A succinct written and oral communicator. 
• Authentically Cares: Patient and skilled at developing relationships with clients, external counsel, suppliers, consultants, and teammates to consistently deliver excellent outcomes 
• Relevant advanced degree in engineering, business, economics or law – such as MBA, JD, LLM – preferred 
• Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel applied to corporate finance and project finance modeling 
• Excellent proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and visual storytelling 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, engineering, law or other relevant field 
• 10+ years of experience in project development, transaction advisory, and infrastructure development 
• Understanding of common implementation challenges through all phases of an energy project lifecycle  
• Demonstrable project finance understanding and commercial acumen 
• Applied understanding of commercial aspects of the energy transition of the telecom sector and the sector unique PPA structures that would be required 
• A strong network among active power project developers, suppliers, and construction partners relevant to the telecoms or distributed energy industries, especially in Africa 
• Commercial skill to facilitate collaboration across multi-disciplinary project teams  

Primary Responsibilities 

• Collate and assess inputs from subject matter experts from other CBE teams to navigate contracting for complex power purchase transactions and portfolio acquisitions, especially multi-stakeholder transactions. Take a holistic view of commercial, financial, legal, and tax constraints to support Business Development in negotiation tactics during development/tendering phase and in contract negotiations 
• Oversee project financial and technical feasibility throughout project development, in line with CBE standards, regulatory requirements, and client expectations 
• Perform in-depth financial analysis to develop the appropriate strategy for executing a given project transaction 
• Manage transaction documentation, deal structuring, and commitments across multiple deal contracts, working alongside support from internal and external Legal counsel  
• Identify gaps in CBE's value proposition to counterparties and generate new ideas for how to better bridge those gaps 
• Manage multi-disciplinary CBE telecom solutions team, prioritizing coaching and mentorship, skills growth, and instilling the confidence to take on new professional challenges 
• Manage external counsel and consultants to deliver on time and on budget 
• Design and deliver client-ready presentations advocating CBE’s desired commercial strategies. Advise counterparties on diverse aspects of financial, tax, and corporate structuring concerns using insights from CBE Finance and Operations teams 
• Cultivate a wide set of developers and technical partners to originate, develop, and close project opportunities across CBE's geographies 
• Assist Investment, ESG, and Operations teams to accurately diligence and report on deal aspects to investors, noting implications for group financial model and portfolio risk 
• Manage project risks and implement effective mitigation strategies.