Development Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional development and due diligence teams spanning engineering, land, environmental, permitting, interconnection, legal, finance, commercial, and external developers.
• Drive team alignment, set priorities, manage timelines, and ensure accountability across all workstreams.
• Facilitate structured and efficient team meetings; monitor action items; escalate key issues with clear recommendations.
• Provide concise, strategic updates to senior leadership regarding project needs, decisions, risks, and status.
• Act as the central point of coordination for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain strong working relationships with utilities, consultants, external developers, permitting agencies, landowners, and cross-functional teams.
• Present complex technical and commercial issues in a clear and actionable manner.
• Engage with senior leadership regularly to communicate resource needs, project decisions, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Identify issues, involve relevant stakeholders, and develop solutions collaboratively using logic, structured reasoning, and data.
• Make informed recommendations quickly and escalate when appropriate.
• Maintain measured, professional, and thoughtful decision-making in fast-moving situations.
• Help identify, create, refine, and implement development processes, tools, and workflows as the organization grows.
• Contribute to building a scalable, repeatable development model for a rapidly expanding team.
• Be effective in environments without rigid or well-defined processes and navigate ambiguity effectively.
• Lead development-focused due diligence for project acquisitions, coordinating technical, environmental, legal, commercial, financial, and land reviews.
• Evaluate land control, permitting, environmental studies, interconnection status, engineering completeness, and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare red-flag reports, risk assessments, and investment committee inputs.
• Provide development assumptions and constraints for valuation and financial modeling.
• Participate in early-stage screening of new project opportunities using GIS, constraints analysis, and market research.
• Work with land teams on targeted outreach and site evaluation where appropriate.

Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Environmental Science, Economics, Renewable Energy, or related field.
• 3–5 years of renewable energy industry experience, not limited to development (engineering, procurement, interconnection, finance, accounting, valuation, permitting, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct and lead project teams effectively.
• Comfortable with project budgets, models, and other analytical knowledge base.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a structured, logical approach to decision-making.
• Action-oriented and proactive, with the ability to drive projects forward while maintaining measured and professional responses under pressure.
• Prepared and presented updates, presentations, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ability to succeed in an organization with evolving processes and help build and improve systems as the team grows.
• Familiarity with U.S. ISO/RTO markets (ERCOT, CAISO, SPP, PJM, MISO, NYISO); experience in multiple markets preferred.
• Willingness to travel ~25% of the time.

What Drives Your Application Forward

• Able to manage multiple concurrent projects in a dynamic environment.

About ContourGlobal

ContourGlobal, a KKR company, is an established Independent Power Producer (IPP) focused on developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation and storage assets across Europe, North and South America, with a presence in Africa and Asia. The company currently manages 6 GW of installed capacity across multiple technologies and asset classes, with an additional 1.3 MW of renewables under construction and nearly 12 GW under development. ContourGlobal is accelerating the decarbonization of its portfolio and evolving into a predominantly renewable IPP, supported by long-term contracts and innovative PPAs coupled with energy management solutions that deliver value beyond market standards. As a symbol of its ongoing transformation and growth, the company recently unveiled a new brand identity, celebrating 20 years of history and embracing The Right Power Forward as its guiding purpose.