• Application Deadline:
• Position: Talent Acquisition Specialist


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Human Resources / HR 
  

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