The Project Development Unit predominantly develops utility-scale solar, wind and hybrid projects to be bid in the REIPPPP (or other sovereign backed programs in Africa) or used as the basis of possible utility scale embedded or wheeling projects in the future. As a Junior Project Development Manager, you will be required to manage various projects and the development tasks necessary. Depending on each market and business model, these tasks variously include site selection, land acquisition, plant layout, permitting and the commercial negotiations for the sale of equity and procurement of goods and services. These tasks cover the development phase through financial close to construction phase support. You will also be asked to assist with some general team administration tasks, providing a limited amount of redundancy to the Team Assistant.
As the Junior Project Development Manager, you can look forward to the following tasks.
Project Development Management
Project management of multiple wind, solar and hybrid projects in various stages of development, ensuring completion within budget and on schedule:
- Develop an understanding of the relationship between site selection, technical design and project economics in order to be able to develop the best possible projects (optimised at capex or tariff level)
- Using GIS and other tools, assisting in the identification of project sites
- Assisting with landowner negotiations
- Establishment and management of the project budget
- Assisting with plant design tasks including turbine, PV array, road and electrical layouts
- Management of the various project licensing tasks including liaising with the statutory organisations that administer the various approvals and permits necessary
- Assisting with procurement of construction commodities
- Assisting with procurement of key components
- Assisting with investor selection processes
- Assisting in tender submissions
- Assisting with high level financial modelling processes
- Project risk mitigation and reporting
- Recording and reporting of project progress
- Project development support to the C&I Sales, EPC Sales and Hybrid Sales teams; depending on the particular project, such support being varying combinations of the above tasks
- Participation in project and programme reviews when required
General assistance to the Department
Assistance across a variety of tasks including:
- Permit applications
- Invoice processing
- Project scheduling and costs
- Participation within meetings and preparation of meeting minutes
- Maintenance of electronic and hard copy filing system incl. virtual datarooms
- Occasional travel to established and potential project sites across the country
- Provide general administration support to the Project Development team, e.g., summary of documents, investigate/track competitor movements, etc.
- You may also be asked to participate in field trips and renewable energy (RE) related seminars