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At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit <www.worldbank.org> . At the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. In fiscal year 2026, IFC committed a record $105.6 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries. For more information, visit <www.ifc.org> . IFC’s (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) EDGE Green Building Program has been a highly successful initiative, combining support for green building codes with the rollout of the simple, affordable voluntary EDGE certification program. In South Africa, the program has reached real market scale, with more than 8 million square meters of EDGE-certified floor space, making the country the leading EDGE market on the continent. The program has also helped build strong local capacity, with 182 EDGE Experts trained in South Africa, 46% of whom are women. This progress has been reinforced by growing financial-sector uptake, with all major South African retail banks offering green finance products linked to EDGE, helping to move green buildings from niche adoption toward mainstream market practice. (see <www.edgebuildings.com> ). IFC’s Building Resilience Index (BRI) has been developed as a complementary initiative to help the building sector identify, assess, improve, and disclose resilience to natural hazards and climate-related risks. As an innovation of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, BRI is a web-based hazard mapping and resilience assessment framework that supports developers, financial institutions, insurers, governments, and other stakeholders to strengthen the resilience of buildings and portfolios through a practical, standardized approach (see <www.resilienceindex.org> ). The IFC’s South Africa Green Building 2 program, will contribute to GHG emission reductions in South Africa through the promotion of certified green buildings. Activities will include public policy dialogue, private sector capacity building with developers, designers and financial intermediaries, and support for academic and professional training programs. IFC’s EDGE green building certification system and free design application is central to the Program as a design tool, an educational aid, and an affordable certification method which can recognize different levels of ambition, right up to Zero Carbon emissions. IFC is currently recruiting an extended-term consultant (ETC) to support the green buildings program in South Africa. IFC is seeking an extended-term consultant (ETC), a seasoned Green Building Specialist with a strong understanding of the business case for green and resilient buildings and experience working with the real estate (residential and non-residential) and financial sector to support the expansion of the footprint of EDGE, BRI and the wider green building market in South Africa. Roles and responsibilities: • Support key clients to convert their intended pipeline of EDGE projects and assist with smoothing out any certification challenges they may have in line with global EDGE protocol; • Support the regional program lead in growing and maintaining a strong pipeline of EDGE and BRI projects whilst creating investment leads for the broader World Bank Group (WBG). • Liaise with certification partners to support the certification of client projects; • Provide proactive business development, stakeholder engagement, technical support and market intelligence across public and private sector built environment stakeholders, including support linked to green finance and relevant World Bank Group initiatives; • Support World Bank Group clients and related stakeholders to advance EDGE and BRI project pipelines in South Africa. • Assist clients in green design, technical solutions and market-facing support to meet EDGE and BRI requirements, including preparation toward preliminary and final EDGE certification where applicable. • Business development to ensure a steady pipeline of EDGE and BRI projects. • Internal administration of reporting and target-tracking for EDGE and BRI. The candidate must have a significant network in the property, construction and/or financial real estate sector and be able to work both independently and as a team player, be at ease in working with high-level clients, and have several years of experience in business development as related to the real estate sector in South Africa. The candidate should be an experienced EDGE Expert who has supported at least two projects from preliminary to final certification. The candidate must have strong knowledge of the South African business and construction sectors, extensive industry contacts, sound financial literacy including familiarity with capital markets and the work of the World Bank Group, and a background in built environment professions such as property management, construction, architecture and engineering. The candidate must have strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills including proficiency in engaging c-suite leaders and key decision makers in the built environment. The assignment will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa with the potential for travel to other countries in Africa. Domestic and some international travel may be required. Applications are invited only from candidates who are resident in Johannesburg, South Africa, and who are legally authorized to work in South Africa. The role reports to the Green and Resilient Built Environment Lead for the Africa Region.