Real Estate Paralegal- URGENTLY HIRING!

As the Real Estate Paralegal, you will work with the Legal, Land, and Development Teams to support land acquisition and title efforts. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in real property transactions including leases, easements, and land purchases, co-tenancy and shared use agreements, title review and curative efforts, and title policies and surveys. You will deploy your outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail to assist Scout’s broader legal team in all aspects of project development and land control to help the company’s ambitious growth targets. The Real Estate Paralegal will report to the Senior Counsel.
The Real Estate Paralegal will have strong expertise in land and title matters to provide the following services:

• Perform real estate due diligence for land acquisition, both for Scout projects and potential land or project acquisitions from other renewable energy companies.
• Support complex title and survey diligence; analyze commitments and proformas, title exception documents, mineral ownership reports, and ALTA surveys; prepare title and survey comments/revisions and correspond with title companies and surveyors; draft and negotiate title curative documents.
• Coordinate the real estate aspects of construction debt, tax equity, and other financings; Analyze crossings, draft crossing consents and right-of-way agreements with third parties, and coordinate with the Construction team to ensure the accurate procurement of all necessary crossing rights.
• Coordinate, track, and report on title review, title curative work, and survey work.
• Utilize the broad suite of Scout’s form agreements to draft and negotiate leases, easements, purchase options, and ancillary transaction documents, including SNDAs, estoppels, notices, assignments, and amendments.
• Maintain real estate templates and support the development teams in their use.
• Provide additional legal support as needed, including assistance with special projects as directed by the General Counsel and other Scout attorneys and/or assistance with various legal requests from other internal client groups.

We will ask you to consistently review and implement improvements to Scout’s legal process management, including the following:

• Suggest changes to Scout form documents.
• Support the development, refinement, and implementation of policies and procedures for title and survey review, title curatives, and internal trainings on real estate topics.
• Support the development of a document retention and tracking program.

Furthermore, you will be exposed to the energy industry and the complicated regulatory ecosystem within which it resides.
Bachelor's degree and Paralegal Certificate from an accredited university.

• 3+ years of experience as a paralegal in an in-house legal department or law firm with a heavy focus on real estate contracts (e.g. leases, options to purchase, easements, title commitments and requirements, surveys).
• Tech savvy – ability to learn and operate at a high level in a variety of software applications.
• Experience drafting documents (e.g., Strong writing skills.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• We will review resumes for this role on an ongoing basis with a start date as soon as possible.

Our ideal candidate is located in Boulder, CO or would be willing to relocate to the Boulder area in order to commute to our Boulder office on a 3/2 hybrid schedule
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Invitation to Veterans
Scout welcomes veterans of the United States Armed Forces to apply for this position. Scout includes veterans of all branches and a diverse set of occupational specialties. We value the independent thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork that our veterans have developed through their service. We welcome applications from any service and any military occupational specialty.
Target base salary: $Attractive bonus potential.
Scout offers a full range of benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance with attractive premiums, 401(k) match, STD, LTD, an Employee Assistance Program, and a range of optional supplemental insurance coverage.