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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

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Job Description

• CrossBoundary Energy is recruiting an Implementation Director to oversee supply chain, project management, and construction activities for CBE’s Telecom Energy Services (“TESCO”) business in Nigeria, that provides clean and reliable energy to the operators of telecom towers.
• The Director will be responsible for managing the team tasked with deploying renewable-hybrid energy systems to several thousand sites, while meeting the expectations for schedule and budget.
• You will leverage your deep expertise in project management, engineering, logistics, and team leadership to articulate a comprehensive implementation strategy and coach individuals leading each functional department to success.
• This role will ultimately be responsible for ensuring CBE’s telecom energy projects remain on track for successful execution at each stage of development, from the successful signature of the contract to successful cutover to CBE’s Operations team for each tranche of site installations.

Who We Are

• The CrossBoundary Energy 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 and exciting renewable energy markets.
• The chosen candidate will play an important role in a unique team with the opportunity to make a large impact on the clean energy landscape in Africa and underserved markets around 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: 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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or other relevant field
• 7+ years of experience in project development, construction management, or infrastructure deployment, including 2+ years in an executive role
• Understanding of common implementation challenges through all phases of telecommunications or distributed infrastructure construction
• Demonstrable business financial understanding and budget experience of multi-million dollar complex projects
• Applied understanding of Mobile Network Operators or TowerCos, and knowledge of industry standard commercial terms for client, supplier, and contractor agreements
• A strong network among active power project developers, suppliers, and construction partners relevant to the telecoms or distributed energy industries, especially in Nigeria
• Commercial skill to facilitate collaboration across multidisciplinary project teams
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) and able to leverage Project Operations systems to manage large, complex problems effectively

Primary Responsibilities

• Overall project financial and technical delivery throughout project implementation (from contract signature to site commissioning and cutover), in line with the project’s overall budget, schedule, regulatory requirements, and client expectations
• Create a plan to organize functional team leaders across CBE Telecoms Nigeria that allows for continuous tracking & evaluating of energy project deployment according to the client’s requirements.
• Take a holistic view of commercial, technical, ESG, regulatory, and legal perspectives to identify project implementation obstacles and find solutions
• Evaluate the technology stack in place to organize information related to project implementation. Identify gaps and communicate requirements to CBE Product team
• Monitor project implementation risk, consulting regularly with project legal, regulatory, health & safety, and commercial experts to implement appropriate mitigation strategies quickly
• Manage and develop CBE Telecoms Nigeria managers, prioritizing coaching and mentorship, skills growth, and instilling the confidence to take on new professional challenges
• Identify high-quality equipment, construction, installation, security, and other partners to help CBE execute successfully on project deployment
• Create and deliver compelling presentations detailing CBE’s implementation progress for clients and investors