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ABOUT AVANTUS Avantus develops, owns and operates utility-scale clean energy projects across California and the Desert Southwest. Our development pipeline of solar with integrated storage will generate enough dispatchable power to serve more than 10 million Americans, day and night. Backed by strategic investment from KKR and EIG, and building on more than a decade of industry leadership, Avantus is growing its position as an independent power producer, delivering affordable, reliable clean energy solutions to meet America’s growing energy demand.   ABOUT THE POSITION We are seeking a highly motivated and organized candidate for a Manager or Sr. Manager, Development position for the WECC market, (including CAISO). The successful candidate will demonstrate sound industry knowledge, superior communications, and detail-oriented organizational skills. The position will be responsible for the development of solar photovoltaic and energy storage projects through leadership, project management, negotiation, and transaction support across a pipeline of projects targeting wholesale power markets. The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in the energy industry, specifically in energy infrastructure development in WECC (including CAISO) markets; strong financial analysis skills; an ability to effectively communicate complex ideas; and the ability and enthusiasm to resolve complicated challenges and drive projects forward.  The candidate must demonstrate sound industry and project development knowledge, superior leadership, negotiation, and communication skills, the ability to focus on minute details while still seeing the big picture, detailed organization, a desire to solve complex problems, initiative, results oriented and an excellent ability to work with others across multiple teams.    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES   Manage development activities including but not limited to site acquisition, title curative, interconnection, regulatory approvals, engineering, land use and environmental permitting, and financial valuation by working with internal teams and external consultants. Collaboration and coordination with functional team members, consultants, attorneys, advisers, transmission providers, off-takers, financing counterparties, and other project stakeholders. Identification of project risks, coordinating resolution and mitigation with cross-functional team. Command of project budgets and project schedules Travel to site locations and meet with project stakeholders and evaluate sites. Engagement in community, local, and state institutions for project support. Support land use and environmental permitting applications as well as preliminary engineering. Coordinate the real estate title curative process including diligence, supporting negotiation, and closeout with support of internal real estate team and external consultants. Support the interconnection process including diligence, technical review, negotiation from application through signed agreement, with support of internal interconnection team. Coordinate preliminary project valuation modeling with the project finance team. Negotiate various project agreements including tax abatements and mitigation settlements. Arranging, organizing, regularly scheduled project meetings, communicating projects’ statuses, reviewing and updating the project schedule and cash forecast. Review and manage project contracts including leases, interconnection agreements, power purchase agreements to ensure compliance with their terms. Support prospecting efforts for new project land and interconnection positions. Support marketing efforts. Including the development of key pricing assumptions and preparation of customer proposals.   REQUIRED  SKILLS AND QUALIFICAT IONS Strong market experience in CAISO, and/or the Southwestern US. Knowledge of utili