Team Lead: Project Development

• Sep 2023 - Present

Senior Project Developer

• Aug 2021 - Aug 2023

I am a Senior Project Developer with an extensive background in Renewable Energy, advisory services and permitting, across a wide range of regulatory requirements. My responsibilities at ENERTRAG SA include developing a portfolio of ~3GWs comprising wind, solar PV, green hydrogen (and derivative) projects across numerous provinces in South Africa. My primary responsibilities include: • Lead the development of the project pipeline from prefeasibility to fully permitted, to ensure a balanced and de-risked portfolio;• Development of all permits and authorisations towards bid-ready projects for government backed and private procurement programmes up to and including financial close;• Active participation in bid preparation, coordination and response for strategic projects within the development portfolio;• Assist with business development, site and project acquisition, including evaluation of site strategic and development potential as well as assistance with land acquisition;• Assistance with landowner contracting and key stakeholder management throughout the development life cycle;• Accountable for conducting technical due diligence of green field and acquisition renewable energy projects;• Actively manage and co-ordinate the evaluation of wind and solar resource and estimation of site energy yield to bankable standards with internal and external specialists• Planning and budgeting (preparation of investment milestone approvals, budget planning and controls, project schedule and data repository management). Show less

Senior Environmental Consultant

• Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

I served as a Senior Environmental Consultant in a lead permitting and advisory role for more than 110 projects across a wide range of industries, assisting with environmental due diligence, bankable feasibility study inputs, EIA peer reviews (locally and in the rest of Africa), EIA project reviews towards Equator Principles and IFC standards compliance, REIPPP assistance towards bid compliance and financial close and site selection, permitting strategies, identifying risks for Renewable Energy clients seeking to find the best permitting and development approach, reporting, project management and specialist assessments. Show less

Environmental Consultant

• Feb 2015 - Oct 2018

Acted within the national regulation, and on behalf of the company. Advised clients and guided their project life cycle and environmental management. Remained within timeframe and budget on projects up to the value of R 1 500 000.00 per annum. Sourced new work and developed client relationships. Acted within the national regulation, and on behalf of the company. Advised clients and guided their project life cycle and environmental management. Remained within timeframe and budget on projects up to the value of R 1 500 000.00 per annum. Sourced new work and developed client relationships.

Project Manager - Monitoring and Evalutation Portfolio (Invasive Species Unit)

• Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

Entrusted with the monitoring & evaluation project portfolio, which entailed the establishment of an invasive species monitoring & evaluation system for the ISU (Invasive Species Unit), as well as GIS database management, quality assurance and reporting thereof. This position required managing a small staff compliment (dealing directly with GIS database management), managing time and budgets for the monitoring division, conducting monitoring trials and research, writing species management plans as well as handling the GIS database for the ISU. Show less

Intern - Invasive Species Monitoring (EDRR)

• Jan 2014 - Jun 2014