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Security Manager, Telecom Solutions at CrossBoundary Energy (CBE)
CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) is the leading provider of clean, renewable, reliable, and affordable electricity directly to businesses. According to World Bank data, access to reliable and affordable electricity is the most significant constraint on economic growth on the continent. CBE addresses this challenge by providing corporates with fully financed renewable power. Through this approach, we are building a disruptive, distributed, renewable utility that can unlock sustainable growth.
We are already making rapid progress towards our vision. CBE is currently delivering a portfolio of over $200M of solar, wind, and storage projects for businesses across Africa. Our clients include Actis, Diageo, Heineken, Rio Tinto, Syrah Resources, Unilever, and other leading regional companies.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Security Manager, Telecom Solutions
Locations: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
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.
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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
Closing Date : 15th March 2024
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