Director/Senior Director of Development

The Director, Development reports to the Senior Vice President of Development and is considered a leadership role within the organization. The team also houses a number of other dedicated departments that support project development efforts, including Real Estate, Legal, Interconnection, Finance Modeling, OffTake/Origination, M&A Evaluation, Accounting, Resource Assessment, and Engineering. The Director will facilitate collaboration between their team of Project Developers and Managers and other support teams to pursue project development goals and milestones.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for concurrent advancement of full utility scale Development portfolio
• Direct development efforts of Wind / Solar projects across all development pillars bringing portfolio from early to late-stage
• Responsible for management and maintenance of development budgets and task schedules for development portfolio
• Manage team of Sr./Jr.-level Project Developers, and cross-functional teams, assigned to portfolio wind projects to drive project advancement, providing direction to Project Developer positions, and managing outside contractor deliverables
• Able to critically prospect, adequately screen, and evaluate viability of new project opportunities
• Provide guidance and effectively collaborate with Business Development team in off-take/PPA efforts
• Active participation in M&A negotiation, diligence and project investment activities
• Ability to effectively present project plans and progress updates to management team and project partners.
• Support SVP in portfolio management and business planning, including but not limited to reporting status of project milestones and progress towards quarterly/annual KPIs
• Travel required to the Minneapolis office and to projects as needed, approximately 20 – 40%

Requirements

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree (economics, finance, science or engineering related field preferred).
• Preferred education: Master’s degree in business administration or related field
• 10+ years of experience, minimum 5 years developing wind energy projects through the entire development cycle from project creation to NTP in U.S. power markets
• The role will require detailed working knowledge of all development disciplines and success strategies.

Key areas of established working experience are:

• Preliminary project screening and diligence
• Project economics and financial modeling
• Knowledge and management of utility-scale/transmission-level interconnections
• Full life-cycle development planning and execution, including detailed project schedules
• Skilled at project management, understanding of project design and layouts
• Development and successful execution of environmental diligence and mitigation strategies
• Extensive experience with local, state and national permitting
• The Director, Development has a comprehensive knowledge-base in workflow/project management systems such as Smartsheet (which is ideal) or Microsoft Projects, proficiency in the full Microsoft suite and functional competency of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).