Business Development Intern

Start date: January 2025

*We are also looking for a Business Development Intern for the summer of 2025.

Encore is currently seeking a highly motivated undergraduate or graduate student with the skills, experience, and aptitude to serve as a Business Development Intern. The successful candidate will work with our Business Development Team in support of the firm's rapidly growing renewable energy project origination, development, finance, and construction management practice.

The Business Development Intern will work across the entire portfolio of Encore’s project development activities and work closely with business development, project development, finance, and legal with two main areas of focus: 

i) conducting market research to support development decisions in new and evolving markets,

ii) supporting customer and land acquisition efforts utilizing a combination of outreach campaigns, GIS analysis, and project financial model evaluation.

About Encore Renewable Energy

Encore Renewable Energy is a leading integrated clean energy services company headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, focused on developing, building, owning and operating sustainable, high return community-scale solar PV systems, large scale energy storage applications and 21st century solutions for the redevelopment of underutilized property.

Encore is a dynamic, high-growth, team-oriented, entrepreneurial company. We are a group of colleagues committed to the triple bottom line of people, planet, profit, and are willing to take on responsibilities outside of our comfort zone. We hope you are too!

• Evaluate utility policies, tariffs, and electric rate schedules
• Research state-level solar and clean energy regulatory and interconnect policies as well as incentive programs related to Encore’s interests
• Develop and utilize market-specific financial models to assist with new market evaluations
• Conduct GIS analysis to assist with site selection, parcel identification, sales support, and land lease contract negotiation efforts
• Prepare proposals in response to RFP solicitations and presentation materials to support customer meetings
• Generate process diagrams for project permitting and utility interconnection processes
• Prepare outreach campaigns to landowners to maximize response rates
• Aid with day-to-day business development activities as needed such as CRM management, call screening, initial site assessment, and administrative work.

• Experience and/or education in Finance, Business, Engineering, Math, Economics, or other quantitative fields.
• Experience working with ArcGIS, ESRI, Google Earth Pro, or other GIS-intensive software.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Demonstrated capacity to learn complex concepts (tax rules, energy policy, financial structures, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Diligent, detail-oriented, and dynamic.
• Ability to self-organize priorities and set and work to deadlines, often with limited direct oversight.
• A high degree of emotional intelligence.
• Passion for renewable energy or environmental issues is preferred.