Development Associate – Energy Project Development

Location: London (4 days in Soho office, 1 day work from home)

Reporting to: Senior Development Manager

Experience: 1–3 years

About Electric Land

Electric Land is a real estate and infrastructure investor and developer of powered land for Europe's energy and digital transition. Founded in 2015 as Europe's first energy ground lease platform, we're backed by Stonepeak, a global institutional investor, and work from offices in London and Hamburg.

We operate across three business lines. Electric Land Investors (ELI) is our land investment platform, acquiring land and leases for renewable energy and storage projects. Electric Land & Power (ELP) develops battery storage, flexible generation, solar, wind and EV charging sites, and has delivered 22 projects to date (1.5GW), with a further 40 projects and 4.5GW in the pipeline. Electric Land Digital (ELD) develops data centres across the UK and Europe.

About the role

We are looking for an organised and proactive Development Associate to support the development of energy infrastructure projects from early-stage opportunity through development and investment decision.

The main focus of the role is project coordination: taking ownership of administration across planning, grid, technical, legal and commercial work streams, working closely with internal development teams and external consultants, advisers, DNOs, solicitors, investors and potential partners. Alongside this, you'll research and report on new business opportunities for the development team, helping identify and screen potential projects and partnerships. This is a genuine opportunity to get exposure across the whole business, not just one discipline: financial, commercial, technical and legal.

You'll also have the autonomy, backed by the support of the development team, to explore new project and business opportunities and take ownership of them through to investment decision. You'll also get some exposure to our development business in Germany, with occasional travel in Europe.

You'll also work directly with our Senior Development Manager to help deliver a 20MW gas peaking facility, our first pilot project under Electric Land Switch, our flexible generation platform. The project is under construction, and you'll get hands-on exposure to what it takes to take a live energy project through to commercial operations (COD) — contractor and contract management, the project programme, and reporting.

This role would suit someone with 1–3 years' experience in energy, infrastructure, property development, project management or professional services who is looking to take on increasing responsibility within project development.

Key responsibilities

Planning, technical, legal and grid support

• Coordinate with planning consultants and technical advisers to ensure deliverables meet project requirements and deadlines, and manage planning application processes, including tracking milestones and discharge of condition schedules.

• Review and manage the coordination of legal drafting and commercial agreements with solicitors and external legal advisers.

• Instruct contractors and consultants on planning and easement drawing requirements, review drawings against project requirements, and support delivery of permits and easements.

• Coordinate grid administration and technical submissions, liaise with DNOs, and maintain accurate records of grid applications, agreements and key milestones.

Project, financial and document management

• Work with the development team to help formulate project development processes, strategies, timelines and budgets, and own and maintain project planning and action trackers.

• Support the Senior Development Manager on delivery and construction of the company's pilot own-and-operate energy project.

• Assist with maintaining project cost trackers and monitoring spend against budget, and support the collation and processing of contractor and adviser invoices.

• Support the preparation of monthly project reporting materials for the development team.

• Coordinate project due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) and manage project virtual data rooms (VDRs), keeping documents uploaded, organised and up to date.

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