Key Accountabilities

• Supporting the land and permitting development aspects of projects

• Take a supporting role in securing all necessary permits for the project. This will be achieved through establishing local stakeholder relationships and managing such relationships

• Develop and maintain landowner relationships with both private and public land owners and manage such relationships

• Support Project Coordinator to secure all project land including met mast, transmission line, substation and site land for both public and private land

• Support land and permitting issues related to e.g. agricultural and forestry land designations

• Attend local meetings relating to the project and identify when senior Acacia team members are required to support

• Produce first draft of project documents, with support of third party consultants for review and sign-off by the Project team (Head of Development, Project Coordinator etc)

• Form part of the team scoping the Environmental Impact Assessment and support the consultant who is undertaking such work

• Supporting the preparation of permitting applications alongside external consultants and internal resource

• Working closely with the new sites team and other development colleagues to ensure projects are successfully delivered

• Provide the inputs for the preparation of project plans and budgets for land and permitting items of development

• Direct contact and management of external stakeholders (Local Government, Prefectural government, landowners, etc) to obtain the necessary approvals and permits

• Establishing and managing of external consultants (land and permitting related) and their workload for all land and permitting activities

• Weekly internal reporting on project progress

• Ensure that all external consultants that are working on Acacia Projects are working in accordance with the required Acacia Health, Safety, Quality and Environment procedures and relevant H&S legislation

• Ensuring internal approvals are obtained for all project documents / phases and that these have been adequately reviewed by the relevant departments

• Preparation and negotiation of project development contracts (Land contract, Consultancy contract etc)

• Bring key decisions to a risk committee to obtain approval

• Co-ordinate the production, obtaining approval and submission for key project documents e.g. grid, permitting & land related documents