Development Associate - Italy (Milan) Milano

Development Associate - Italy (Milan)
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

To apply, please submit a CV and Covering Letter explaining how your experience matches the requirements of our position and how your personal motivators and values align to Sonnedix purpose.

**Vacancy Name

- Development Associate - Italy (Milan)

**Location

- Milan

**Location Country

- Italy

**Profile

- The Role:

We are looking for a Development Associate who will focus on the Italian solar market and will contribute to building out and leading our growth to develop utility-scale solar power and energy-storage projects.

The position will work closely with the Company's cross functional teams and report to the Development Manager.

This role will focus on supporting the management and execution of a sizable portfolio of development projects via joint-development agreements with regional project developers.

The role involves all aspects of greenfield development, with a particular focus on: project management (permitting, land, grid) all way to Ready to Build; support for construction handover to the Engineering&Construction team; managing relationship with joint-development agreement, partners through weekly coordination calls, daily supervision and sign-off of relevant development activities; support for Project Finance and Power Marketing in securing financing and offtake agreements for the project pipeline; maintaining up to date information and reporting for the projects, using the company project management tool to report to senior staff and other functions and actively monitor policy changes that may affect permitting and connection processes, evaluating impact on current and prospective pipeline.

Desirable skills:

- At least 3 years' experience in the solar industry in business and project development (ideally Italian national experience), in particular project development from greenfield to shovel-ready;

- Clear understanding of Italy land site control matters, permitting processes both at national and regional level, and interconnection procedures and regulations

- Experience in managing key stakeholders involved in the development process (landlords, permitting agencies, DSOs/TSO, local development partners)

- Excellent written and spoken English and Italian

- Understanding of power markets regulation and new revenue models (e. g.

capacity markets, storage) is a plus

**Local Language Job Description

**Description

What we offer:

- As the company grows, we offer the opportunity for you to grow with us through a wide range of training and development opportunities

- Give back to the local communities through our comprehensive ESG agenda, volunteering days and charity events

- Join a team that crosses functions and geographies through our off-site events, team socials and global celebrations

- Coaching and mentoring opportunities

- Options to work across functions and exposure to all parts of the growing business

- Fantastic office environments

- Regular well-being seminars

- We supply office equipment to make home-working environment as productive as possible, such as chairs, monitors, keyboards, lamps

- Many more local benefits, specific to each country

About Us:

At Sonnedix, our purpose is to harness the power of the sun to build a bright future - for our company, our partners, our communities and our planet.

Sonnedix develops, builds, operates and manages solar PV plants for the long term.

Please submit your CV in English

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