Development Analyst/Senior Analyst

About us:

Cultivate Power is a distributed solar and storage platform. We develop distributed energy resources that advance productive use of the land and integrate with the community and improve the grid. We believe community generation improves grid resiliency, furthers energy independence, and brings economic benefits to local communities. Our top focus is cultivating land into distributed renewable energy projects.

Our team has extensive experience developing and financing solar, wind, battery storage, and transmission projects, as well as policy and market development across more than 25 states. Before launching Cultivate Power, our team members were central to the growth of a multi-billion dollar solar and storage business, with 11 GW of commercialized assets inclusive of an operating fleet of 1.7 GW. The Cultivate Power team’s skillset spans project development, project financing, policy and power marketing from the beginning stages of land development all the way to project construction and operations.

We are a talent centric company that believes deeply in empowering our team members with significant responsibility and creating a culture of inclusivity and diversity. We cultivate our team’s talent, providing each team member with the training, support, and incentives they need to grow and thrive at Cultivate Power.

The Role:

Cultivate Power is seeking a highly motivated candidate for a Development Analyst/Senior Analyst

position. This position will provide hands-on development apprenticeship through supporting project and market development activities and tangible learning opportunities with great potential for growth. The role is highly project focused, and those projects may be located across multiple states and will generally have between a 1-3 year development cycle. An excellent candidate will demonstrate comprehensive attention to detail, superior organization, enthusiastic initiative, and passion for a mission driven start-up environment.

This position is for you if you are excited by the opportunity to turn land into renewable power plants, if you want to make the world a better place with more renewable energy, and if you want to learn by doing and working hard.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Coordinating with internal project developers and external subject matter experts for the successful and timely execution of key development deliverables including the following:

- Performing site diligence by reviewing environmental, zoning, utility, title, and other land features

- Leading site origination campaigns and prospect outreach inclusive of in-person site visits

- Leading the identification and negotiation of land agreements directly with landowners and legal counterparties

- Handling landowner relationships including sending notices and payments

- Support development of interconnection process of submitting a request or application and working with the applicable utility through necessary technical studies

- Support development of zoning/permit applications, environmental compliance, handling external consultants, and creating permitting site plans

- Entering and maintaining key project data using cloud-based document management, relational databases, and reporting tools. Key project data management could include:

- Onboarding new projects into data systems

- Maintaining projections of upcoming payments, project budgets, and cash forecasts

- Onboarding new consultant Scopes of Work, budgeting, and invoicing

- Tracking interface with external stakeholders including landowners, consultants, utilities, permitting authorities, etc.

- Creating and managing project and market dashboards and reports with status of development activities for distribution to the market team and executive team

Requirements:

- A bachelor’s degree and 1-3 years working experience

- Intellectual curiosity

- Strong work ethic and ability to take initiative and ownership in a fast-paced environment

- Confidence to formulate solutions, and to request support when there are roadblocks that require teaming

- Results driven and solutions oriented

- Strong organization, analytical, and communication skills and attention to detail

·       Ability to work with low supervision on individual contribution

·       Demonstrated team-first mentality and dedication to overcome obstacles to drive best outcomes in projects and teams

- Bachelor’s degree focused on energy, environmental, business or engineering industries is a plus

- Working or internship experience in energy, environmental, or engineering industries is a plus

- Strong Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft excel, skills required

- Familiarity with GIS Platforms and ability to manage/analyze GIS data is a plus

- Experience negotiating land control agreements (lease, purchase and right of way) is a plus

- Ability to perform in-market/regional travel, as needed

Total compensation is greater than or equal to $100,000 annually