Officer, Oversight

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Gold Standard

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Officer, Oversight

Closing Date: 1pm CET on Friday 14th November 2025

Location: UK, Germany, India (work from home working model)



Are you driven by the desire to ensure integrity and impact in climate and sustainability initiatives? Gold Standard Foundation is seeking a talented Officer, Oversight to join our Accreditation Oversight Management team. This pivotal role is ideal for someone who thrives on detail, enjoys coordinating complex processes, and wants to help set the benchmark for quality and compliance in the global carbon market.



As Officer, Oversight, you will be at the heart of our assurance process, supporting the approval and management of independent auditing organisations (Validation and Verification Bodies – VVBs) and auditors who certify climate projects. You’ll play a crucial part in maintaining the high standards that enable projects to access carbon finance and contribute meaningfully to the Sustainable Development Goals. If you’re looking for a role where your work directly supports climate action and sustainable development, this is your opportunity to make a difference.



*Please note we reserve the right to close this role early*



WHO WE ARE:



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.



WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:



  • Review applications for (re-)approval of Validation/Verification Bodies (VVBs), providing feedback and ensuring compliance with Gold Standard requirements.
  • Coordinate the VVB approval process between internal and external stakeholders.
  • Manage the auditor approval process, including account creation, score follow-up, and updating auditor information on internal systems and the Gold Standard website.
  • Draft, implement, and report on internal standard operating procedures.
  • Support the creation of training materials and exams/quizzes for auditors and VVBs.
  • Draft information materials, newsletters, helpdesk responses, and guidance documents.
  • Support alignment of the assurance system with internal and external standards (ISEAL, ICVCM, Corsia, Article 6, etc.) and assist with reporting.



WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:


  • Degree and 2 years minimum of professional experience (ideally in quality management systems, audit processes, or sustainability standards).
  • Experience in assessing compliance against standards (preferably ISO).
  • Strong organizational, communication, and client-centred skills.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and familiarity with online project/process management systems.
  • Ability to learn rapidly, adapt to new information, and find innovative solutions to complex problems.
  • Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders globally



WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:



  • All Employees are entitled to 30 days of holiday, pro-rated for part-time Employees.
  • Remote Working Contribution for remote workers
  • Home office set up allowance
  • A mission-driven organisation working at the leading edge of climate and sustainability.
  • Rewarding work in a dynamic non-profit environment.
  • A collaborative workplace within a multicultural team.
  • An ambitious, agile and flexible environment.
  • We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the correct right to work documents will be considered.



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



EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES


Gold Standard provides equal opportunity for all job applicants and employees and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination. We are dedicated to an inclusive culture, and we strive to create a workplace where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together.