Manager: Developer

About the Company

Since its establishment in 2008, Mulilo has grown into one of the leading Independent Power Producers (IPP) in Southern Africa. Mulilo is majority owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, the world’s leading private equity investor in renewable energy assets, through its New Markets Fund I. Mulilo has concluded numerous PPA's in both the Department of Mineral Energy's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP) and with several large corporate energy users. Mulilo currently operates 450MW of wind and solar PV projects and has a further 500MW of projects under financial close. Having adopted a strategy that aligns with the company's long-term vision, Mulilo has accumulated a pipeline of projects exceeding 25GW, and is now positioned as a key player in the renewable energy sector. 

Mulilo places strong emphasis on its human capital and prides itself in providing a world class working environment for all its employees, thereby placing huge value on career progression and personal growth. 

Mulilo is guided by strong ethical principles and adheres to its environmental, social and governance responsibilities.  

 
About Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 

Founded in 2012, CIP is the world’s largest dedicated renewable energy fund manager and a global leader in offshore wind. CIP currently manages over 30 billion Euro’s, with a target of having 100 billion Euros under management by 2030. The funds managed by CIP focus on investments in offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, biomass and energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity, storage, advanced bioenergy, and Power-to-X. 

About this role

The Manager: Developer is positioned within the Development Department and reports to the Director: Project Development and ultimately will be responsible for ensuring that projects are developed and reach financial close within budget and timeframe. Lead interactions with environmental, off-take, legal, grid, engineering and construction teams. 

• Develop and implement wind and/or solar projects from site control stage through to financial close, managing technical, commercial and financial workstreams.


• Ensure timely acquisition of all project rights including permits, consents, land and leases.


• Lead the development of technical concepts and solutions of the projects, identifies optimal solutions from a technical, commercial and execution perspective including civil, mechanical, and electrical aspects of solar PV and wind plants, interconnection and high-voltage design and yield assessments.


• Lead interactions with local interest groups, landowners, I&APs during ElA processes.


• Assist PPA/offtake teams to bid, and secure PPA and assist with related matters.


• Manage the compliance of consent and lease obligations and ensure timely acquisition of all project rights including permits, consents, land & leases.  

• Create and maintain strong relations with local communities, landowners, government agencies, NGOs and other stakeholders.  

• Leading the project interface between the various work packages (finance, legal, technical, permitting, grid connection, etc.)  

• Manage junior developers.

Key Tasks

• Secure all project permits & consents in order to enable project progress according to schedule.


• Secure acquisition, servitude and lease agreements of required land parcels


• Ensure communication and engagement of stakeholders to ensure local project support enabling a smooth development process.


• Interface with the Off-Take team to drive the Power Purchase Agreement process.


• Co-ordinate with REIPPP & Commercial Bid Manager and/or Senior Business Developer (who will do the bid co- ordination) and be responsible for putting their respective bids together and will have ultimate responsibility for preparing the inputs into the financial model.


• Ensure inputs are updated timeously and have ultimate responsibility of financial model.


• Provide project progress reporting to internal stakeholders, SteerCo and shareholders.


• Provide budget, risk and schedule updates within development activities.

Required skills and education background.

• Master's degree in engineering, project management or other relevant field.


• 7+ years' experience working with large renewable energy projects.


• Experience from similar role with same level of responsibility and tasks.


• Strong project management, communication and relationship skills towards external project stakeholders to ensure project progress.

• Leadership skills to be able to manage junior developers.

Desirable attributes

The ideal candidate would have a passion for the Renewable Energy sector and personality traits would include a high level of diligence, determination, resilience, and agility. 

Mulilo is an employer of choice and is offering an extremely competitive total remuneration package for this position.

Additional Information

Able to work overtime according to operational needs.

The position is based at the offices of the company, but travel may be required occasionally.