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Consultancy: Development of GBPN Funding Strategy (2025–2030) Organisation: Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN) – www.gbpn.org

The Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN) is an international not-for-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the transformation of the building sector to achieve zero-carbon, resilient, and healthy built environments. GBPN works with governments, industry, and civil society partners to advance ambitious policy reform, knowledge-sharing, and implementation support in building energy performance, resilience, climate health, and sustainable building in the world’s fastest urbanising geographies. We take a unique evidence-based ‘bottom-up’ approach that empowers local stakeholders to drive change supported by a global network of local experts sharing knowledge and best-practices.

As GBPN enters its next phase of growth, the organisation seeks to significantly scale up its activities and impact between now and 2030. To achieve this, GBPN requires a robust and actionable funding strategy that will enable long-term financial sustainability and increased capacity to deliver on its mission.

GBPN is seeking to engage an experienced external consultant to support its Funding and Business Development Committee in developing a comprehensive funding strategy. This strategy will provide a clear roadmap for mobilising resources from philanthropic donors, multilateral agencies, and other financing partners to scale GBPN’s activities up to 2030.

The objectives of this consultancy are to:

• Assess GBPN’s current funding landscape, donor positioning, and organisational needs.
• Identify and prioritise opportunities for large-scale philanthropic and multilateral funding aligned with GBPN’s mission.
• Co-create a funding strategy in collaboration with GBPN’s Board Funding and Business Development Committee, GBPN Indonesia Board, and Glocal Management Group.
• Deliver an actionable funding strategy (2025–2030) that is practical, diversified, and sustainable.
• Facilitate engagement with GBPN leadership to ensure ownership and alignment of the strategy.

The consultant will:

• Review GBPN’s current strategic plan, existing donor relationships, and funding history at global and country program level.
• Map potential donor and funding priorities and opportunities, aligned with our Theory of Change , including:
  • Large-scale philanthropic foundations and multilateral institutions, and innovative funding opportunities including blended finance and global climate finance.
  • Country-specific funding for targeted implementation, technical assistance.
• Develop funding prioritization criteria, scenarios, strategies tailored to GBPN’s programmatic priorities in building sector mitigation, adaptation, resilience, green finance, climate health, and affordable housing at global and country levels.
• Propose an implementation roadmap, including a pipeline for significantly scaling up funding by 2030 and the necessary capability needs, roles and responsibilities, timelines, resourcing and tools and systems required.
• The implementation roadmap should include short-term, medium-term, long-term financial targets according to GBPNs funding goals & opportunities, along with monitoring, evaluation & learning framework.
• Facilitate four (4) progress meetings with the Board Funding and Business Development Committee (one per month).
• Incorporate feedback from the Board and management through an internal review and refinement process.
• Deliver the final funding strategy to be tabled for approval at the GBPN Board Meeting on 4 December 2025.
• Inception Note & Workplan (within 2 weeks of start).
• Funding Landscape Analysis & Opportunity Map for global to local and local to global funding.
• Draft Funding Strategy and implementation roadmap (2025–2030).
• Facilitation of 4 progress meetings with the Funding & Business Development Committee.
• Final Funding Strategy document, including an implementation roadmap and fundraising pipeline, submitted ahead of the Board meeting on 4 December 2025.

• Start Date: Immediate (September 2025)
• Completion: 4 December 2025
• Key Milestones:
  • Inception Note: September 2025.
  • Monthly Progress Meetings: September–November 2025.
  • Draft Strategy: November 2025.
  • Final Strategy: December 2025.

The consultant will report to the GBPN Funding and Business Development Committee Chair, and will work closely with:

• GBPN Board Funding and Business Development Committee.
• GBPN Glocal Management Group.

The consultant should demonstrate the following:

• Minimum of 10-15 years’ experience developing funding and business development strategies for international climate-related NGOs.
• Proven track record in mobilising large-scale philanthropic and multilateral grants.
• Strong understanding of climate finance and donor landscapes relevant to GBPN’s mission.
• Experience in the fields of climate & development funding – particularly mitigation, adaptation, resilience, green finance, climate health.
• Building sector and affordable housing experience is desirable.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and strategy co-creation skills.
• Availability for immediate engagement and completion of deliverables within the specified timeframe.

Interested consultants are invited to submit:

• A brief proposal (max. 5 pages) outlining your understanding of the assignment, proposed approach, work plan, and fee proposal.
• Two references from similar assignments.

All documents and discussions relating to this assignment will be treated as confidential and remain the property of GBPN.

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