Solar - Head of WECC Land Acquisition - California

The Solar - Head of WECC Land Acquisitions - California will be responsible for leading regional land acquisition team and resources for West.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee day to day activities of Land Acquisition teams in achieving measurable progress on multiple land acquisition campaigns, reporting to the Director, Land Acquisition N. America, to ensure results-based targets are attained on budget and on schedule.
• May need to assist Land Acquisition teams with special meetings that require advanced negotiations skills for leasing land, land purchases, collection and transmission line easements, access roads easements, title curative instruments and crossing agreements, including the development of negotiated terms and conditions, working in collaboration with the Director and internal/external real estate counsel as needed.
• Work with regional teams to design and implement land acquisition campaigns, including identification of landowners within prospective sites, initiating contact and meeting with individual landowners to articulate the benefits of company's value proposition, and negotiating contracts with landowners and/or landowner attorneys for participation in proposed renewable energy projects.
• Conduct weekly updates with regional lead for Development, regarding priority tasks for projects and reviewing weekly status report(s) to maintain up-to-date summary of project activities.

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