CrossBoundary is a mission driven investment firm committed to unlocking the power of capital to make a strong return while creating a lasting difference in frontier markets.
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- MBA Associate 2025 - CBE (Sales and Development Team)
- MBA Associate 2025 - Innovation Lab
- MBA Associate 2025 - Natural Capital
- Method of Application
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience2 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldSales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
Job Description
- CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) is recruiting an MBA Associate for the Mining team. You will actively support CBE’s investments in renewable energy-hybrid assets for mining projects throughout Africa. The team will rely on your market research, price quotes, customer proposals, and analytical support to signing project with mining customers. You’ll apply and further develop your multidisciplinary expertise in marketing, project finance, and financial modelling to designing sales documents. While evaluating leads and supporting contract negotiations, you will manage correspondence with a variety of stakeholders across Africa and across the world, and lead on performing due diligence on potential clients. You will report to the Commercial Solutions Director and work with them to track and assess the team’s project pipeline to drive strategic decision-making
Who You Are
- Self-starter who is passionate about clean energy and its potential to transform underserved markets across Africa
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; crisp, clear, concise, and persuasive communicator
- Strong quantitative skills; mastery of building, manipulating, reviewing, and correcting financial and pricing models
- Empathetic and thoughtful listener who strives to learn from clients’ perspectives
- Articulate, assertive negotiator who enjoys challenging preconceived notions and welcomes debate and disagreement as learning opportunities
- Experienced at identifying champions and building coalitions within corporate bureaucracies to get things done; recognises the unique challenges of business-to-business sales
- Sound business judgment; able to independently evaluate and prioritise commercial initiatives
- Fast learner who can effectively distill complex issues down to simple, clear, targeted messaging
- Ability to identify and connect with a broad range of audiences
- Comfort with ambiguity; thrives in a changing, challenging context
Primary Responsibilities
- Gain expert understanding of the mining sector, key players, business models, and value drivers
- Conduct desktop due diligence of potential projects and clients
- Own and operate the financial model for hybrid pricing in line with client needs and within commercial and technical constraints
- Develop and present custom proposals to clients and answer questions about the commercial, financial, legal, and technical aspects of a hybrid PPA contract
- Manage electronic communication with client stakeholders across the local and regional levels and across various functions within the client organizations including technical, procurement, financial and leadership
- Translate customer feedback on CBE’s product into proposals for new products or features
- Support project Investment Committee approvals through the financial analysis of the clients and preparation of summary materials and due diligence
- Track and assess data about our sales pipeline and active projects using our CRM tool (MS Dynamics), database (S&P Capital) and prepare regular recurring reports.
- Manage and update internal tools and systems to maximize efficiency of the BD process
Qualifications
Ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:
- 2+ years working in management consulting, financial advisory, or investment at a top tier firm and a strong professional network across multiple African countries, especially East or West Africa
- Work experience in mining and/or renewable energy, in East or West Africa
- Excellent communicator and presenter
Required skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Work experience in emerging markets
- 2+ years’ work experience in an international business role
- Expert-level proficiency in the Microsoft Suite, notably Excel and PowerPoint
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationMBA/MSc/MA
- Experience4 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldScience 
Job Description
- CrossBoundary is recruiting MBA Associates to join our Advisory teams globally. As a member of one of our teams, you will actively help unlock capital in underserved markets by working with a broad range of investors, donors, and companies seeking capital to facilitate investment in the regions where we work. As an MBA Associate, you will identify and evaluate investment opportunities, conduct macroeconomic market assessments, and provide transaction support. Experience in developing countries is preferred.
- As an MBA Associate for the Innovation Lab, you will support with the development of the Lab’s assessment of the mini-grid business model as it stands to date, earmarked for publication at end 2025. The analysis will summarize the findings of the Lab to date, the future of mini-grids, and the path to scale.
- MBA Associate positions begin in early June and continue until early August, with some flexibility. This is a 12-week commitment.
Who You Are
- 4+ years in top tier banking, consulting, private equity, or similar
- Current MA or MBA candidate
- Self-starter who is passionate about creating lasting change in underserved markets
- 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
- Exceptional presentation skills and ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
- Demonstrated leadership skills; preferably in fast-moving and entrepreneurial environments
- Proficient in basic accounting, financial modelling, financial forecasting, and budget development
- Deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities businesses face in frontier markets, as well as the macro-economic trends that impact them
- Past exposure to Development Finance Institutions and/or development agencies is particularly relevant
- Willing to take on new types of work, even without prior experience or direct supervision
- Enthusiastic about working, traveling, and living in a challenging environment
- Comfortable with ambiguity; able to operate effectively in a changing context
- Humble
- Direct experience working in location is a plus
- Language proficiency in location is a plus
Primary Responsibilities
- Conducting mini-grid business model assessment by:
- Evaluating technical and economic data from mini-grid sites (including smart-meter, inverter, generator, capex and opex data) across various prototypes
- Estimating the cumulative impact of these prototypes on the overall minigrid business model
- Supporting in the development of the Lab’s 2025 capstone publication:
- Developing storylines and pages to present the analysis conducted
- Identifying and synthesizing key trends in the sector
- Predicting future trends and outlining the path to mini-grid scale
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationMBA/MSc/MA
- Experience4 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldFinance / Accounting / Audit 
Job Description
- The Natural Capital team at CrossBoundary is recruiting MBA Associates to join our teams. As a member of this team, you will actively help unlock capital in underserved markets by working with a broad range of investors, donors, and companies seeking capital to facilitate investment in the regions where we work. As an MBA Associate, you will identify and evaluate investment opportunities, conduct macroeconomic market assessments, and provide transaction support. Experience in developing countries is preferred.
- MBA Associate positions begin in early June and continue until early August, with some flexibility. This is a 12-week commitment.
Who You Are
- 4+ years in top tier banking, project finance, consulting, private equity, or similar
- Current MA or MBA candidate
- Self-starter who is passionate about creating lasting change in underserved markets and natural ecosystems
- 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
- Exceptional presentation skills and ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
- Demonstrated leadership skills; preferably in fast-moving and entrepreneurial environments
- Proficient in basic accounting, financial forecasting, and budget development, with specific experience in financial modelling
- Deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities businesses face in frontier markets, as well as the macro-economic trends that impact them
- Past exposure to Development Finance Institutions and/or development agencies is particularly relevant
- Willing to take on new types of work, even without prior experience or direct supervision
- Enthusiastic about working, traveling, and living in a challenging environment
- Comfortable with ambiguity; able to operate effectively in a changing context
- Humble
- Direct experience working in Latin America or Southeast Asia is a plus
- Spanish or Portuguese language proficiency is a plus
Primary Responsibilities
- Leading natural capital-focused transaction advisory work by:
- Sourcing and evaluating potential investment opportunities
- Sourcing and leading investor reach outs on behalf of companies’ management
- Supporting transactions through due diligence and post-investment strategy
- Conducting market assessment and ongoing trend analysis by:
- Undertaking macroeconomic, regulatory, and operational assessments
- Providing sector analysis of priority areas for investment
- Driving CrossBoundary’s growth in new markets by:
- Pitching and overseeing proposal responses for strategic new business opportunities which are aligned with CrossBoundary’s mission
- Identifying and synthesizing key trends amongst our clients and the geographies which we serve
- Managing investor relationships
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