Green Building Regional Lead for Africa

**Green Building Regional Lead for Africa**

**Job #**:

- req33429

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Climate Change

**Grade**:

- GG

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- International Recruitment

**Location**:

- Johannesburg,South Africa

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:

- French

**Closing Date**:

- 6/19/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

IFC’s Climate Business Department (CBD) focuses on working with the IFC’s and World Bank Group’s industries, sectors, and regions to uncover, nurture, develop and scale up cross-sector and multi-sector innovations that can help with climate adaptation and mitigation efforts. Current priorities being developed include developing carbon credit markets, transition finance, nature-based solutions, trade programs to support SMEs, methane reduction, sustainable cooling solutions, innovative and emerging renewable energy and storage solutions, circular economy, decarbonizing transport, agriculture and industries, and decarbonizing the built environment including buildings, cities, and industrial parks.

IFC’s Green Building Program includes three major tools/programs as follows:
IFC is seeking a Green Building Regional Lead for Africa who will lead green building operations across the continent. The position will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with possible extensive national and international travel.

The Green Building Regional Lead will report to the Green Building Global Operations Lead and the Senior Manager, both based in Washington DC, and will liaise with other team members on marketing, fundraising, strategic and technical work.

**ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Lead Africa-based green building staff and consultants to grow the green building market across Africa, especially in target/focus countries (South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Egypt) and new markets as needed.
- Outreach to financial intermediaries on the creation of financial and non-financial products and services that support the growth of the green building sector; and,
- Provide support to other programs such as BRI and APEX, as needed.

**Lead and expand EDGE across the Africa region**
- Lead business development efforts and close on leads and monitor their conversion to certified projects. Ensure achievement of target green building and EDGE certifications.
- Conduct market research and data analysis to identify growth opportunities and innovative strategies for program expansion.
- Engage with key industry players to promote EDGE, enhance capacities, and ensure program adoption and client retention.
- Coordinate and work with IFC investment officers to identify target clients for EDGE certification projects.
- Generate and disseminate high-quality content to reinforce the business case for EDGE in local markets and support stakeholders in their business development efforts.
- Work with the global marketing lead to refine the program’s messaging for Africa markets and use various channels to highlight client success stories.
- Represent IFC programs at public events to increase awareness and support program integration and implementation.

**Manage the relationship with EDGE certification provider across Africa**
- Establish strong working relationships with EDGE certification providers to jointly and actively promote the uptake of EDGE across Africa.
- Advise certification providers on successful EDGE certification strategies, encompassing technical, operational, marketing, and financial aspects.
- Trouble-shoot commercial relationship issues between clients and the certification provider and refer technical questions from clients to the EDGE product team.
- Oversee invoicing of royalty payments due from the certification provider.
- Manage annual operational audits and quarterly reporting of the certification provider.
- Identify challenges and devise operable solutions in collaboration with the certification provider.

**Identify and support the delivery of other programs i.e. BRI and APEX Green Cities, as needed**
- Work closely with the APEX program team to identify and implement strategic areas from APEX engagement with Indonesian cities.
- Assess market readiness for BRI and foster new and existing strategic partnerships.
- Advocate for resilient and decarbonized portfolios, including retrofitting and Zero Carbon initiatives.

**Manage regional operations across Africa**
- Act as a regional lead for Africa programs including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Egypt.
- Establish detailed country budgets and action plan including activities and targets.
- Execute the action plan within budget.
- Manage a team of staff, individual consultants, and various consulting firms by overseeing all hiring, quality control, and capacity building decisions.
- Ensure the timely and quality delivery of IFC and donor monitoring and evaluation requirements and periodic managemen