Operations Officer

**Job #**:

- req29659**Organization**:

- IFC**Sector**:

- Climate Change**Grade**:

- GF**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment**Location**:

- Bogota,Colombia**Required Language(s)**:

- English, Spanish**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 10/4/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC**Description**

Climate action is at the core of IFC’s business. In financial year 2023, IFC delivered 46% in own-account climate finance and mobilized an additional $6.8 billion. The World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan (2021 - 2025) outlines our collective response to align financial flows with the goals of the Paris Agreement (referred to as “Paris Alignment”). IFC has committed to align 85% of new operations with these goals starting July 1, 2023, and to align 100% of new operations starting July 1, 2025.

IFC’s Climate Business Department (CBD) is instrumental in implementing the Climate Change Action Plan. The Innovation and Business Development team within 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 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 Buildings Market Transformation Program (GBMTP, Green Buildings Team) aims to catalyze a virtuous cycle of supply and demand for resource-efficient building construction and ownership. A main thrust of the GBMTP 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 IFC’s green building certification program called EDGE - (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies). IFC works through third party certification providers to administer and confirm compliance with the EDGE standard.

IFC recognizes the importance of mainstreaming disaster resilience and climate adaptation in emerging market. To address this, the Building Resilience Index (BRI) Program is created. The BRI Program aims to enhance urban resilience against climate change-induced and geoseismic natural hazards by promoting the design, construction, retrofit, finance, and insurance of resilient buildings. The program takes a holistic approach, focusing on the development of the Building Resilience Index app, improving access to finance for resilient projects, facilitating direct investment in resilient demonstration projects, and improving the public policy environment to support a resilient building market.

The BRI App is a web-based hazard mapping and resilience assessment framework for the building sector. It provides location-specific hazard information, resilience measures, and disclosure mechanism for stakeholders in the sector.
The Global APEX Green Cities Project

IFC 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.

The IFC APEX Team works with client cities to conduct APEX analyses, and there are several upcoming city engagements. The output of an APEX analysis is a Green Cities Action Plan (6 months duration) or a Green Investment Diagnostic (4 months duration). The analyses will determine the future greenhouse gas (GHG) and resource impacts of the current investment pipeline, as well as identify other investment, policy, and planning opportunities in the city.

**ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

The Green Buildings Team seeks to hire an Operations Officer to be based Bogota, Colombia to help lead business development and implementation activities for greening the built environment, including for IFC’s EDGE, BRI and APEX Green Cities platforms. The OO will report to the Green Buildings Lead for Latin America.

The new team member’s core responsibilities will be to: (i) define and implement a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for EDGE-BRI in Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean Islands, and APEX for the Latin America and Caribbean Region; (ii) outreach to financial intermediaries on the creation of financial and non-financial products and services that support the growth of the green and resilient buildin