Lead Legal Counsel - Project Finance

Studies show that women and underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. At Stegra, we’re building an impact-driven, sustainable company - and we need a diverse, inclusive team to make it happen. If you share our passion but don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the perfect fit for this role, or another as we grow. At Stegra, we’re not just building a plant, we’re proving that sustainable industry is possible. And to do that, we need people like you. Join a team where safety comes first. Where we support each other, learn as we go, and make space for everyone to grow and contribute. This is your chance to be part of something big - while being closer to nature and leading a balanced, purposeful life. Role Overview Stegra is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Legal Counsel – Project Finance to join our Legal team and take a leading role in supporting the company's large-scale project debt financing, together with related corporate and compliance work. This role will play a critical part in shaping and executing our debt financing strategy, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding the company’s legal and commercial interests across all debt-related matters. Reporting to the Head of Legal – Corporate Finance & Company Secretary, and working closely and with support from the Corporate Finance Legal Counsel, you will take primary day-to-day ownership of the legal workstreams underpinning the company's large project financing package, including its ECA and public funding arrangements, multi-tranche lender structures, and security package. This is an opportunity for an experienced, commercially-minded lawyer who wants to take ownership of a sophisticated and high-profile project finance capital stack, working directly with senior stakeholders on some of the company's most important legal and financial matters. The role carries substantial responsibility and autonomy, with significant scope to shape how project finance legal support is delivered as the company scales. As Stegra continues to grow, the role offers significant exposure to a broad range of legal and finance matters, close collaboration with internal and external senior stakeholders and executive leadership, and the opportunity to mentor more junior members of the legal team on project finance matters. Key Responsibilities As a fast-growing company with cross-over functions between teams, the scope of this role will evolve, however, core responsibilities include: · Legal Strategy for Debt Financing: Developing, implementing, and maintaining the legal strategy for the company's project and corporate debt financing, in close collaboration with the finance and executive leadership teams. · Document Negotiation & Drafting: Leading the drafting, negotiation, and execution of legal documentation related to debt financing, including loan agreements, intercreditor agreements, security documents, engagement letters, and other financing-related contracts. · Stakeholder Coordination: Acting as a primary legal point of contact for debt financing activities, coordinating with internal stakeholders (finance, tax, project delivery, treasury) and external parties (lenders, law firms, consultants, and regulatory bodies). · Compliance Oversight: Ensuring ongoing compliance with debt-related legal obligations, covenants, and regulatory requirements, and coordinating internal processes to monitor compliance and reporting duties under financing agreements. · Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating legal risks related to financing structures, securities, and credit support instruments, and providing legal guidance to support informed, risk-based decision-making. Additional Responsibilities: · Overseeing covenant compliance processes across multiple lending tranches. · Coordinating the direct agreement workstream with project counterparties, including EPC, O&M and offtake counterparties, and supporting intercreditor arrangements and multi-party lender coordination. · Liaising efficiently with lenders' counsel, ECA counsel, technical advisers, insurance advisers, and other external specialists under tight drawdown deadlines.