CrossBoundary Group is a mission-driven investment and advisory firm that unlocks the power of capital for sustainable growth and strong returns in underserved markets. CrossBoundary Advisory has advised on over US$700 million of closed transactions in underserved markets across a broad range of impactful sectors, including agriculture, health, education, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, and clean power. Our investment platforms, CrossBoundary Energy, CrossBoundary Energy Access, and CrossBoundary Educational Infrastructure, directly finance projects to bring cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable electricity, as well as education infrastructure, to developing countries.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Talent Acquisition Specialist
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: People
Job Description
- We are 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.
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.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition, recruitment, or similar; strong preference for experience in the financial services or impact investment space
- 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.