Development Intern – Toronto [Onsite]

Title of the Job: Development Intern – Toronto [Onsite]
Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Scope of PositionTo support siting, development and community engagement activities for Ontario and possibly other regions across Canada. Helping prepare communication materials (i.e. power point, written responses), doing research and sharing notes from meetings, podcasts, webinars, etc.ResponsibilitiesTasks

• Supporting Agrivoltaics: Researching agrivoltaic practices, attending webinars, providing written summaries of materials and supporting preparation of power point presentations and other external communications.
• Supporting Community Engagement: Ridge View Solar Solar United Hartland Niagara Facebook page – preparing articles and responding to comments; providing research and drafting responses for questions and concerns that come from the community, for both solar and wind projects, preparing presentations for internal and external meetings.
• Various Project development tasks, including helping with permitting, land control, project management tasks.
• Monitoring, drafting, on behalf of EDFR, public policy positions and/or stakeholder engagement documents from Government of Canada (i.e. NRCan, ECCC, Finance) and in key markets (i.e. Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Nova Scotia, BC)
• Support on preparations for bid, consultations, competitive analysis, presentation prep, managing communications, research on municipalities, crown land applications etc.

Goals of the Internship

• Becoming familiar with a growing and increasingly critical combination of solar energy and agriculture on the same land. This is an ever-evolving topic that our development team needs to be well informed to support and continue engaging our stakeholders with the most recent and relevant information.
• Learning about the issues that come up, both for and against projects, and how to formulate arguments to the community that maintains support for our projects. Becoming involved in these issues helps to better appreciate and understand the pros and cons of renewable energy siting in communities and how to strategically angle a project to be supported by most community members.
• Learning the multitude of tasks that go into project development, and how our teams work together, both with internal stakeholders and external consultants to navigate the development project phase.
• Develop knowledge on convergence of government, associations and EDFR business i.e. hone various skills related Public Affairs: public policy development, legislative processes, strategic communications, stakeholder management, corporate brand and reputation management). In addition, knowledge in electricity markets rules, governance and regulatory/implementation issues i.e., you get to learn how governments help or hinder building renewable energy projects.
• A wide spread knowledge of the renewable development process across wind, solar and battery. Participation in high pressure RFP situations and seeing projects develop from green field status. Play a very key role in advancing Ontario’s commitment to net zero. Key learning outcomes; research, participation in key decision making, engagement with various levels of government, knowledge across new technologies, engagement with First Nations, etc.

QualificationsEducation/Experience:

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, Renewable Energy, Engineering or related discipline.
• Detail oriented and self-motivated
• Able to demonstrate an ability to work as part of a team and manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Experience working with various Office software applications

Working Conditions:

• 100% time in office, utilizing computers. Potential to participate in some off-site team meetings or public project meetings.

Company Name: EDF Renewables

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