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We are looking for an Associate/Senior Associate to join the Origination team. Our team matches the perfect offtaker with our wind, solar, and storage projects. To do that, we build and maintain a lot of connections so we can share our renewable energy projects with utilities, C&Is, retailers, and others in the Unites States. We share our projects through bilateral discussions and responding to RFPs.    You will be a core member of our East Origination team, and the position will focus on the PJM, MISO, and ERCOT markets. On the East Origination team, you will be responsible for cultivating client relationships, overseeing RFP and bilateral outreach proposals, and maintaining our market intelligence. Each day will incorporate both proactive and responsive activities across a range of projects, clients, and deals.    You will report to the Senior Director of Origination and work closely with other members of the Origination team, including the lead of the East Origination team. You will collaborate extensively with team members across the company as Scout continues to grow our wind, solar, and storage pipeline.     Responsibilities   You are a deal-oriented, analytically minded professional who likes to work with a wide range of people and is passionate about the ways that renewable energy will make the world a better place. Your primary role will be to support the East Origination team. Here are all the responsibilities we’ll trust you with.  RFP Responses/Bilateral Offers   Lead the origination of late-stage projects.   Process RFPs by adding them to a tracker, leading a team call to discuss response decisions, and sharing with the company via email and meetings.   Develop an RFP response schedule for larger lift proposal efforts.   Work with the various applicable teams to help prepare a response including development, finance, structuring and legal.   Prepare proposals for RFP responses and bilateral agreements to utilities, C&Is, retailers and others.   Manage the Know Your Customer process.   Maintain an up-to-date proposal response template and other team templates.   Submit best-in-class proposals on time.   Summarize and conduct analysis on our offers.   Prepare for shortlist meetings.     Market Intelligence   Support our market intelligence efforts by communicating any market intelligence gained from discussions with brokers, conferences, industry groups and other sources.   Maintain market packet(s), through a deep dive into the market and expertise in that market, specifically related to offtake opportunities     Market Readiness   Participate in our market readiness process and lead ready-to-market calls.   Stay up to date on our late-stage projects that may be ready to market, including completing offtake analyses.     Connections   Leverage your existing network in the renewable energy space and build your network by attending conferences and participating in organizations on behalf of the Origination team.   Propose ideas on ways to make new connections.     General   Follow our Origination team’s processes and procedures to ensure consistency across the team and suggest updates and refinements to the processes to make them better.   Deep dive into the exciting challenges in the eastern markets, including capacity markets. Be willing to put on your investigator hat, be curious, work across the organization to get subject matter expert input and propose pathways and solutions for our projects.