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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 . WBG’s Climate Department is vital in driving Climate action across the globe. The Climate Department’s Market Building, Solutions Impact (KTCSM) Unit works on decarbonizing buildings (during construction, operations and construction material manufacturing), improving the climate resilience of built environment, increasing adoption of passive designs, supporting strategic adoption of renewable energy, sustainable cooling solutions, improving water efficiency and embodied carbon across the built environment including buildings, cities, and industrial parks. The strategy priorities in the Philippines include the focus on climate-related advisory and investment services. To support this agenda, KTCSM Unit is seeking an Extended-term consultant based in Manila, Philippines. The selected candidate will support the implementation of the Green Building program in the Philippines, and cross support the delivery of green buildings and other programs listed below in the Pacific Island region. EDGE Green Building Program The Green Building Program aims to catalyze a virtuous cycle of supply and demand for resource-efficient building construction and ownership. A main thrust of the program is to create a paradigm shift by setting a metrics-driven standard of what constitutes a green building, and to reward property developers for meeting these standards through the WBG’s green building certification called EDGE – (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies). The program works through third-party certification providers to administer and confirm compliance with the EDGE standard. In the Philippines, the program has reached market scale with more than 4.5 million square meters of EDGE-certified floor space, including over 2 million square meter meeting EDGE most stringent Zero Carbon, making the country the leading EDGE Zero Carbon market globally. The program has also helped build strong local capacity, with 126 EDGE Experts trained in the Philippines, 46% of whom are women. This progress has been reinforced by supporting Green Building investment uptake, with IFC securing over USD 475 million linked to EDGE, helping to move green buildings from niche adoption toward mainstream market practice. (see www.edgebuildings.com ). Building Resilience Index Program 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 the WBG, 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. The Philippines was the first pilot country for BRI, which has since gained maturity and momentum across Asia and beyond. The Philippines now ranks second among implementing countries, with more than 2 million square meters of floor area self-assessed and 19 projects verified through the BRI app. (see www.resilienceindex.org ). Global APEX Green Cities Program WBG has created a climate-smart cities platform called APEX Green Cities. This new platform will help cities make decisions about the future of their energy, transport, water, and waste systems through an extensive array of policy and investment options. The APEX software is used to quickly assess the resource requirements, greenhouse gas emissions impacts, costs, and payback periods of policies, investments, and planning measures. The APEX Green Cities program aims to increase public and private climate-related investment pipeline influenced by city-level policies and investment plans. More information on APEX can be found at www.apexcities.org . Eco Industrial Parks (EIP) WBG is piloting Eco Industrial Park rating, for suitable projects across multiple countries, covering ESG (environmental, social, and governance) metrics. The assessment will typically provide gap-diagnostics to new and planned industrial park developers, operators and infrastructure service providers. Objective and Purpose of the Assignment: We are seeking an extended-term consultant (ETC), a seasoned Green and Resilient Buildings Specialist to expand the footprint and market uptake of EDGE and BRI in the Philippines and Pacific Island countries. The ETC will serve as IFC’s primary in-country focal point for green and resilient buildings in the Philippines and support market expansion across Pacific Island countries. The role requires independent management of client relationships, business development, program delivery, strategic partnerships, market intelligence, and results tracking to scale the adoption of green and resilient building solutions and generate opportunities linked to climate finance, advisory services, and IFC investment activities.

• Grow and maintain a strong pipeline of EDGE and BRI projects and convert qualified opportunities into registrations, assessments, certifications, and verifications.
• Provide hands-on support to clients and partners, address implementation bottlenecks, and improve the speed and quality of certification and verification delivery.
• Develop the market ecosystem through engagement with developers, financial institutions, insurers, government agencies, professional bodies, universities, certification partners, assessors, and verifiers.
• Provide reliable reporting, pipeline management, evidence collection, and target tracking for EDGE and BRI programs. Scope of Work, Tasks, and Deliverables Business development and pipeline conversion
• Identify and qualify opportunities across priority sectors, including commercial, residential, industrial, institutional, and mixed-use developments.
• Maintain an actionable client pipeline showing stage, floor area, anticipated certification or verification milestone, investment linkage, next action, owner, timing, and key risks.
• Engage developers and asset owners at project and portfolio level, with emphasis on moving from isolated pilots to multi-project or portfolio commitments.
• Coordinate with Knowledge Bank, IFC and IBRD teams to originate or support opportunities linked to mainstream investments, sustainability-linked finance, green buildings finance, resilient infrastructure, and relevant public-sector operations.
• Identify opportunities to support IFC investment, upstream, and advisory teams through EDGE, BRI, climate-finance, sustainable real-estate, and resilience-related engagements.
• Prepare client pitches, meeting briefs, follow-up notes, and proposals that clearly articulate the commercial and development case for EDGE and BRI. EDGE technical and certification support
• Lead client engagement, pipeline development and EDGE certification conversion activities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to developers, consultants, financial institutions, and project teams on the commercial and technical value of EDGE certification and Zero Carbon pathways.
• Guide projects toward registration, preliminary certification, final certification, and, where relevant, EDGE Advanced or Zero Carbon pathways.
• Coordinate with certification partners and client teams to resolve documentation, review, and process bottlenecks in line with the applicable EDGE protocol.
• Develop market capacity through technical workshops, project simulations, professional training, and engagement with universities and professional organizations. BRI technical and verification support
• Lead market adoption of BRI by engaging developers, financial institutions, insurers, governments, and World Bank Group teams and by identifying pilot, portfolio, and programmatic opportunities.
• Support clients through initial screening, self-assessment, evidence preparation, assessor engagement, and independent verification, while clearly distinguishing BRI verification from a guarantee of asset performance.
• Coordinate with assessors, verifiers, global technical colleagues, and local engineering firms to address delivery constraints and improve verification turnaround.
• Support the development of assessor and verifier capacity in the Philippines and Pacific Island countries, including models that combine international oversight with local technical support where appropriate.
• Monitor BRI assessed and verified floor space, expected loss-reduction results where available, and investment opportunities supported. Market development, partnerships, and policy engagement
• Build and maintain relationships with senior decision makers across real estate, construction, financial institutions, investors, insurers, government, academia, professional associations, and WBG teams.
• Represent IFC at industry forums, conferences, technical events, policy dialogues, and stakeholder consultations related to sustainable and resilient buildings.
• Develop partnerships that can accelerate adoption, including with certification and verification partners, engineering firms, housing associations, financial institutions, investors, insurers, and development partners.
• Support dialogue with relevant public authorities, financial-sector stakeholders, and industry leaders on practical integration of green and resilient building approaches into guidelines, programs, procurement, financing, and capacity-building initiatives.
• Plan and deliver targeted market events, workshops, webinars, and knowledge activities that generate measurable follow-up opportunities. Pacific Islands delivery
• Develop and manage a prioritized Pacific pipeline, initially emphasizing opportunities with credible client demand, World Bank Group engagement, investment relevance, or a viable delivery partner.
• Develop practical market-entry and scaling strategies appropriate to the differing capacities and maturity levels of Pacific Island markets.
• Support country engagement in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, and other Pacific Island countries as agreed with the Regional Lead.
• Coordinate remote and in-country technical support, recognizing market size, travel, cost, and local verifier-capacity constraints.
• Help replicate and refine practical verification models, drawing on lessons from Papua New Guinea and other early engagements.
• Prepare concise country opportunity notes, mission inputs, stakeholder maps, and follow-up plans. Program management, reporting, and knowledge
• Maintain accurate EDGE and BRI pipeline trackers and provide concise monthly progress updates.
• Collect and organize supporting evidence for supervision, donor reporting, and results validation, including certified or verified floor area, entities advised, workshops delivered, participation, gender-disaggregated data where required, and investment links.
• Flag delivery, procurement, certification, verification, partner-capacity, and reputational risks early and propose practical mitigation actions.
• Prepare inputs for project supervision reports, mission reports, presentations, management updates, and communications materials.
• Document lessons, case studies, and replicable business-development or delivery models from the Philippines and Pacific Islands. Location and Travel The assignment will be based in Manila, Philippines, with regular engagement across the Philippines and regional travel to Pacific Island countries and other locations in East Asia. Domestic and international travel may be required. The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the Philippines and able to travel as required by the assignment. Term of Assignment The assignment is expected to commence on October 25, 2026. The term, appointment conditions, and compensation will be determined in accordance with applicable World Bank Group policies, business need, satisfactory performance, and availability of funding.