Project Development Associate

**About us**

Matrix Renewables is a renewable energy platform that was founded by global alternative asset manager TPG through its impact investing platform, The Rise Fund, in 2020. Matrix Renewables focuses on developing, constructing and being long-term owners of renewable energy assets.

Matrix Renewables’ current portfolio is comprised of 15 GW of operational, under construction, or near ready-to-build solar PV projects and renewable energy projects under development, across Europe, US, and LATAM.

TPG Rise is a $19 billion impact investing platform focused on investing in and supporting the growth of world-class businesses that deliver positive and measurable social and environmental impact globally.

TPG is a leading global alternative asset investment firm with offices

in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, and Washington D.C. TPG’s investment platforms span a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, impact investing, infrastructure, growth venture, real estate, secondaries and public equity.

**The Role**

At Matrix Renewables we are looking for a highly motivated individual to play a key role supporting our Project Development in Spain. Based in Madrid, the Development Associate will be assisting development activities over Matrix’s portfolio of projects in Spain, reporting to Matrix’s development team in Madrid.
- Assist the Project Development team in Spain & Portugal in their day-to-day activities.
- Analysis and control greenfield project opportunities (land securing and interconnection procedures) and other early-stage project development activities.
- Ensure projects’ VDR are updated with relevant documentation through each project development stage.
- Help tracking development status of projects in its pipeline, liaising with developers to help to deliver projects to RTB on time.
- Controlling internal and external development costs & budgeting.
- Follow up the contractual obligations that developers must accomplish under DSA and/or SPA.
- Monitor compliance with contractual obligations and assessing the quality of work done by Matrix’s developers.
- Project scheduling management through activities definition, sequencing, resources, and duration estimation
- Management of community and public relations in respect of the Project(s)
- Support construction planning to ensure achieve COD targets in order to accomplish with the financial model and PPA requirements.
- Report the activities progress, contractual issues, results of the project and potential risks.
- Prepare and ensure an organized handover once the project(s) reach RtB according to the company procedure
- Help to implement ESG Company policy at local level in compliance with modern standards, regulations, and best industry practice. Flag to development team any ESG issues as soon as possible, gather information related to them and where instructed interact with stakeholders if appropriate

**General Skills / Attributes**:

- Master’s degree in engineering, law or business.
- 4-5 years minimum of energy industry experience in project development, project administration, project management.
- Full understanding of the development, construction, and operational processes for solar or wind projects in Spain & Portugal.
- Experience using GIS tools (ArcGIS, QGIS, ARCGIS Pro), MS Project and AutoCAD.
- Ability to interact with the main stakeholders and team working, as well as being able to perform the responsibilities with sufficient degree of autonomy at work.
- Experience with dealing with utilities, distributors and generators and a good network of contacts in those companies is desirable.
- An ability to perform at a high level in a matrixed organization, working in interdepartmental teams to achieve objectives.
- Solid communication skills: capability to establish technical discussions in different cultural environments.
- Fluent in English & Spanish.
- Ability to travel through Spain to meet stakeholders around Matrix projects.