Land and Lease Administrator

Urban Grid, a leading independent power producer, facilitates a rapid and sustainable energy transition by developing high-quality renewable energy projects, fostering community partnerships, and serving as a good land steward. Our company is positioned to own and operate its facilities while cultivating a land management system that benefits farmers, communities, and the natural world through agrivoltaics. Urban Grid maintains a delivery-focused approach with the goal of being a good neighbor, corporate citizen, and trusted energy solutions partner. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with teams situated strategically throughout the United States, Urban Grid has a long history of contributing to the clean energy economy. In addition to 940 megawatts currently under construction, we are actively developing a growing portfolio of more than 12,000 megawatts of solar PV and 7,000 megawatts of co-located and stand-alone energy storage. To learn more, please visit www.UrbanGridSolar.com.

 Urban Grid is a portfolio company of Brookfield. one of the world’s largest owners and operators of renewable power and climate transition assets.

Job Summary

Urban Grid is seeking a Land and Lease Administrator who will provide clerical and administrative support to the Site Acquisition team. This role will maintain, update, and optimize contract files related to the Land Acquisition function.  This role will work with various departments on contract administration.  The role performs various data entry tasks and carries out general administration functions as needed.

This role will maintain files related to Land Department functions, perform various data entry tasks, and carry out general administration functions as needed.  This position should be flexible and capable of working in a dynamic team of professionals and should be familiar with land and lease management, basic legal contract parameters, and accounting principles.  The right candidate will be a hands-on, hard-working team player. The Land and Lease Administrator role requires equally excellent communication and technical skills. A passion for land and renewable energy is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of payment requests, contract reports, and work with internal teams to onboard landowners into various systems of record.
• Perform other administrative duties, including data gathering, spreadsheet preparation, file and database management, and document retention within file structure and land management platform.
• Assist in the updating of the land contract management system across the company portfolio.
• Other duties and various data management tasks assigned by Manager.
• Learn company systems and maintain reports as necessary for land acquisition.
• Coordinate with community engagement team for additional landowner onboarding
• Coordinate with real estate counsel and land acquisition team on recording memorandums
• Assist in developing SOPs for contract administration for full lifecycle of project development
• Other duties as assigned.

Location: Remote work is acceptable for this role, prefer Eastern Time Zone.

Requirements

• Educational backgrounds may vary for this role, as this potential candidate may come from a technology (i.e. Computer Science, Information Systems) or Land (i.e. Real Estate, Law) background.
• Proficiency in database management and administration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong grasp of real estate contract terms and conditions and ability to quickly read and extract key provisions from land agreements and legal documents.
• Familiarity with the various elements and phases of the solar project development process.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft platform- Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.  Knowledge of ARC GIS and ESRI system for data analysis and mapping.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others and deliver results.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to multi-task with strong attention to detail.

Benefits

Urban Grid offers an exciting benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending account, company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, voluntary life, paid parental leave, and a retirement plan with rich matching. Full-time position with a competitive compensation package, including bonus.