Consultant, Senior Associate Assurance Review Management (Energy) - 12 Months
JOB TITLE - Consultant, Assurance Review Management (Energy)
Closing Date: 23 Aug
Location: India
Contract Type: Consultant
Length of Consultancy: 12 months
The Consultant, Assurance Review Management (Energy) plays a critical role in ensuring the integrity, credibility, and quality of Gold Standard certified projects. The role supports the end-to-end assurance review process for energy-related projects by applying standards, methodologies, and verification requirements.
Please note we reserve the right to close this role early
What You Will Be Doing
Working closely with internal technical teams, Validation and Verification Bodies (VVBs), and external stakeholders, the role contributes to continuous improvement of assurance processes, strengthens quality control mechanisms, and enhances the effectiveness of certification systems. The role also supports governance reporting, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building to ensure consistent and high-quality assurance outcomes.
The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a suitably qualified consultant who can work independently to support the team with the following tasks / deliverables during a 12-month assignment.
What Will Be Your Deliverables
The salary for this role will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
The successful candidate must be able to legally work as an independent contractor.
Closing Date
Applications for this role will close on 24 August 2026. We regret that we cannot confirm receipt of your application by email. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Our Values
Pioneering - We focus on those that have the most promise to contribute to our vision and mission, bringing them to market with the requisite planning and resources.
Rigorous - We build on our reputation for quality and rigor with more robust measurement of outcomes, stronger safeguards and greater impact across the Sustainable Development Goals. Our objective is to make rigor simpler and more achievable at scale.
Collaborative - We work with key partners who share our goals and complement our strengths. Our partnership strategy aims to move beyond working opportunistically as a delivery partner in favor of collaborating in long-term strategic synergy.
Transparent - We were established to bring confidence, trust, and accountability to carbon markets. We will continue to take strides to improve transparency in our own processes, in the broader market and in non-market mechanisms
Gold Standard is a not-for-profit organization that helps companies understand the role they should play in creating a net-zero, sustainable nature future and provides tangible ways for them to contribute. This includes investments in their value chains, carbon credits, and other mechanisms for high-integrity climate action that delivers real impact for people and nature.
The Gold Standard Foundation was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also delivered sustainable development benefits. Today, our standard, ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, allows climate and development initiatives within carbon markets, corporate supply chains, and sustainable finance to manage, measure and maximise their impacts toward the Net Zero ambition of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Closing Date: 23 Aug
Location: India
Contract Type: Consultant
Length of Consultancy: 12 months
The Consultant, Assurance Review Management (Energy) plays a critical role in ensuring the integrity, credibility, and quality of Gold Standard certified projects. The role supports the end-to-end assurance review process for energy-related projects by applying standards, methodologies, and verification requirements.
Please note we reserve the right to close this role early
What You Will Be Doing
Working closely with internal technical teams, Validation and Verification Bodies (VVBs), and external stakeholders, the role contributes to continuous improvement of assurance processes, strengthens quality control mechanisms, and enhances the effectiveness of certification systems. The role also supports governance reporting, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building to ensure consistent and high-quality assurance outcomes.
The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a suitably qualified consultant who can work independently to support the team with the following tasks / deliverables during a 12-month assignment.
What Will Be Your Deliverables
- Review project documentation and emission reduction calculations against certification requirements.
- Identify non-conformities and recommend corrective actions.
- Support validation, verification, and assurance review processes.
- Prepare reports and insights for governance and decision-making bodies.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve technical queries.
- Contribute to process improvement, digital MRV initiatives, and quality enhancement activities.
- Support training, onboarding, and capability development across the assurance function.
- 3+ years' experience in assurance, auditing, certification systems, or related review functions.
- Knowledge of carbon standards, sustainability certification systems, or verification frameworks.
- Experience working with renewable energy, energy efficiency, or other low-carbon projects.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to review technical documentation and data.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and report-writing skills.
- Experience with process improvement and digital systems is advantageous.
- Knowledge of carbon markets, climate finance, and SDGs is desirable.
The salary for this role will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
The successful candidate must be able to legally work as an independent contractor.
Closing Date
Applications for this role will close on 24 August 2026. We regret that we cannot confirm receipt of your application by email. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Our Values
Pioneering - We focus on those that have the most promise to contribute to our vision and mission, bringing them to market with the requisite planning and resources.
Rigorous - We build on our reputation for quality and rigor with more robust measurement of outcomes, stronger safeguards and greater impact across the Sustainable Development Goals. Our objective is to make rigor simpler and more achievable at scale.
Collaborative - We work with key partners who share our goals and complement our strengths. Our partnership strategy aims to move beyond working opportunistically as a delivery partner in favor of collaborating in long-term strategic synergy.
Transparent - We were established to bring confidence, trust, and accountability to carbon markets. We will continue to take strides to improve transparency in our own processes, in the broader market and in non-market mechanisms
Gold Standard is a not-for-profit organization that helps companies understand the role they should play in creating a net-zero, sustainable nature future and provides tangible ways for them to contribute. This includes investments in their value chains, carbon credits, and other mechanisms for high-integrity climate action that delivers real impact for people and nature.
The Gold Standard Foundation was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also delivered sustainable development benefits. Today, our standard, ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, allows climate and development initiatives within carbon markets, corporate supply chains, and sustainable finance to manage, measure and maximise their impacts toward the Net Zero ambition of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.