Certification Reviewer
Sintali Ltd
Sintali is an environmental certification body, which was founded to verify the impact of the built environment around the world. Sintali acts as a global certification partner for IFC’s EDGE green building program, transforming the built environment and creating a pathway to ensure that every building on this planet is green.
Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) is an innovative green building standard and certification created by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group. EDGE makes it faster, easier, and more affordable than ever before to build and brand green.
EDGE is growing at an exponential rate, quickly becoming the most dominant green building certification in many countries around the world. Designed for mass market transformation, EDGE is being applied at scale across the world. As one of the EDGE global certifiers, Sintali delivers EDGE certification in over 170 countries.
We are seeking an individual who will be checking, verifying, and assuring that projects adhere to the EDGE standard and play a critical role in the certification process.
What is the role?
We are looking for an EDGE Certification Reviewer to join our growing technical team. In this role, you will be responsible for evaluating, verifying, and assuring the quality and consistency of EDGE project submissions from audit partners around the world. You will apply your technical expertise and attention to detail to ensure projects meet the requirements of the EDGE standard and to provide clear, constructive feedback to support the certification process.
This is a unique opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of projects, spanning multiple geographies, building types, and market contexts, while contributing to a mission that delivers measurable environmental impact on a global scale.
About you
Detail-Oriented and Analytical: You have a keen eye for accuracy and can critically assess documentation to identify inconsistencies or errors.
Technically Curious: You have an interest in sustainable construction, green building technologies, and global market trends in environmental performance.
Strong Communicator: You can provide clear, concise, and professional written feedback to auditors and stakeholders across different cultural contexts.
Purpose-Driven: You are motivated by the mission of creating a greener built environment and thrive in a fast-paced, impact-oriented organization.
Collaborative: You enjoy working as part of an international team, engaging with partners around the world to support a common goal.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Review and Verification
- Conduct detailed technical reviews of EDGE audit submissions to confirm compliance with the EDGE standard.
- Assess documentation accuracy, completeness, and consistency, ensuring it aligns with established protocols and criteria.
Quality Assurance and Feedback
- Provide clear, actionable feedback to auditors to resolve discrepancies and maintain high-quality assessments.
- Serve as a point of contact for technical and procedural queries related to EDGE certification.
Certification Recommendations
- Prepare formal recommendations on whether projects meet the EDGE standard, ensuring decisions are evidence-based and defensible.
- Support the issuance and preparation of EDGE certificates for successfully certified projects.
Process Improvement and Knowledge Sharing
- Contribute to ongoing improvements in review procedures to increase efficiency, accuracy, and consistency.
- Contribute to training and development initiatives for external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with audit partners and internal stakeholders to share learnings and uphold best practices across the certification network.
- Other tasks as required to support the team.
Essential skills:
- Higher education degree in construction related field.
- Work experience in a construction related field.
- Fair knowledge of building-related systems and materials.
- Great attention to detail.
- Self-driven and self-motivated.
- Competent in MS Excel.
Desirable skills:
- Mechanical engineering qualification preferred
- General understanding of green-building standards.
- EDGE Expert accreditation or equivalent
- Experience of auditing green building standards
- Data visualization and analytics.
Requirements
- Ability to work from home
- Must be authorised to work in the United Kingdom
Remote but must be based in the UK and able to travel to London on a monthly basis for team meetings
About Sintali
We verify environmental performance and sustainability claims, and spread awareness of green building success on a global scale.
We support companies on their sustainability goals in numerous ways, from quantifying their success through certification, to providing advisory on the creation of new verification programmes for specific needs, to educating on core products through the delivery of training. We are passionate about our work and are driven by purpose to decarbonise the built environment.
We verify environmental performance and sustainability claims, and spread awareness of green building success on a global scale. We support companies on their sustainability goals in numerous ways, from quantifying their success through certification, to providing advisory on the creation of new verification programmes for specific needs, to educating on core products through the delivery of training. We are passionate about our work and are driven by purpose to decarbonise the built environment.
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